Bio-inspired Metaheuristic based Visual Tracking and Ego-motion Estimation

J. R. Siddiqui, S. Khatibi

2014

Abstract

The problem of robust extraction of ego-motion from a sequence of images for an eye-in-hand camera configuration is addressed. A novel approach toward solving planar template based tracking is proposed which performs a non-linear image alignment and a planar similarity optimization to recover camera transformations from planar regions of a scene. The planar region tracking problem as a motion optimization problem is solved by maximizing the similarity among the planar regions of a scene. The optimization process employs an evolutionary metaheuristic approach in order to address the problem within a large non-linear search space. The proposed method is validated on image sequences with real as well as synthetic image datasets and found to be successful in recovering the ego-motion. A comparative analysis of the proposed method with various other state-of-art methods reveals that the algorithm succeeds in tracking the planar regions robustly and is comparable to the state-of-the art methods. Such an application of evolutionary metaheuristic in solving complex visual navigation problems can provide different perspective and could help in improving already available methods.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

R. Siddiqui J. and Khatibi S. (2014). Bio-inspired Metaheuristic based Visual Tracking and Ego-motion Estimation . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-758-018-5, pages 569-579. DOI: 10.5220/0004811105690579

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpram14,
author={J. R. Siddiqui and S. Khatibi},
title={Bio-inspired Metaheuristic based Visual Tracking and Ego-motion Estimation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,},
year={2014},
pages={569-579},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004811105690579},
isbn={978-989-758-018-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,
TI - Bio-inspired Metaheuristic based Visual Tracking and Ego-motion Estimation
SN - 978-989-758-018-5
AU - R. Siddiqui J.
AU - Khatibi S.
PY - 2014
SP - 569
EP - 579
DO - 10.5220/0004811105690579