Robust Object Tracking under Appearance Change Conditions

作     者：Qi-Cong Wang Yuan-Hao Gong Chen-Hui Yang Cui-Hua Li Department of Computer Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, PRC 

作者机构：Department of Computer Science Xiamen University Xiamen PRC 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Automation and computing》 (国际自动化与计算杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2010年第7卷第1期

页      面：31-38页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 080203[工学-机械设计及理论] 0802[工学-机械工程] 

基　　金：supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.40627001) the 985 Innovation Project on Information Technique of Xiamen University (2004–2008) 

主　　题：Visual tracking particle filter observation model Kalman filter expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm 

摘      要：We propose a robust visual tracking framework based on particle filter to deal with the object appearance changes due to varying illumination, pose variantions, and occlusions. We mainly improve the observation model and re-sampling process in a particle filter. We use on-line updating appearance model, affine transformation, and M-estimation to construct an adaptive observation model. On-line updating appearance model can adapt to the changes of illumination partially. Affine transformation-based similarity measurement is introduced to tackle pose variantions, and M-estimation is used to handle the occluded object in computing observation likelihood. To take advantage of the most recent observation and produce a suboptimal Gaussian proposal distribution, we incorporate Kalman filter into a particle filter to enhance the performance of the resampling process. To estimate the posterior probability density properly with lower computational complexity, we only employ a single Kalman filter to propagate Gaussian distribution. Experimental results have demonstrated the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed algorithm by tracking visual objects in the recorded video sequences.