Coherent Selection of Independent Trackers for Real-time Object Tracking

Salma Moujtahid, Stefan Duffner, Atilla Baskurt

2015

Abstract

This paper presents a new method for combining several independent and heterogeneous tracking algorithms for the task of online single-object tracking. The proposed algorithm runs several trackers in parallel, where each of them relies on a different set of complementary low-level features. Only one tracker is selected at a given frame, and the choice is based on a spatio-temporal coherence criterion and normalised confidence estimates. The key idea is that the individual trackers are kept completely independent, which reduces the risk of drift in situations where for example a tracker with an inaccurate or inappropriate appearance model negatively impacts the performance of the others. Moreover, the proposed approach is able to switch between different tracking methods when the scene conditions or the object appearance rapidly change. We experimentally show with a set of Online Adaboost-based trackers that this formulation of multiple trackers improves the tracking results in comparison to more classical combinations of trackers. And we further improve the overall performance and computational efficiency by introducing a selective update step in the tracking framework.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Moujtahid S., Duffner S. and Baskurt A. (2015). Coherent Selection of Independent Trackers for Real-time Object Tracking . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-091-8, pages 584-592. DOI: 10.5220/0005311305840592

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp15,
author={Salma Moujtahid and Stefan Duffner and Atilla Baskurt},
title={Coherent Selection of Independent Trackers for Real-time Object Tracking},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={584-592},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005311305840592},
isbn={978-989-758-091-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)
TI - Coherent Selection of Independent Trackers for Real-time Object Tracking
SN - 978-989-758-091-8
AU - Moujtahid S.
AU - Duffner S.
AU - Baskurt A.
PY - 2015
SP - 584
EP - 592
DO - 10.5220/0005311305840592