SCALE ROBUST ADAPTIVE FEATURE DENSITY APPROXIMATION FOR VISUAL OBJECT REPRESENTATION AND TRACKING

C. Liu, N. H. C. Yung, R. G. Fang

2009

Abstract

Feature density approximation (FDA) based visual object appearance representation is emerging as an effective method for object tracking, but its challenges come from object’s complex motion (e.g. scaling, rotation) and the consequent object’s appearance variation. The traditional adaptive FDA methods extract features in fixed scales ignoring the object’s scale variation, and update FDA by sequential Maximum Likelihood estimation, which lacks robustness for sparse data. In this paper, to solve the above challenges, a robust multi-scale adaptive FDA object representation method is proposed for tracking, and its robust FDA updating method is provided. This FDA achieve robustness by extracting features in the selected scale and estimating feature density using a new likelihood function defined both by feature set and the feature’s effectiveness probability. In FDA updating, robustness is achieved updating FDA in a Bayesian way by MAP-EM algorithm using density prior knowledge extracted from historical density. Object complex motion (e.g. scaling and rotation) is solved by correlating object appearance with its spatial alignment. Experimental results show that this method is efficient for complex motion, and robust in adapting the object appearance variation caused by changing scale, illumination, pose and viewing angel.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Liu C., Yung N. and G. Fang R. (2009). SCALE ROBUST ADAPTIVE FEATURE DENSITY APPROXIMATION FOR VISUAL OBJECT REPRESENTATION AND TRACKING . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 535-540. DOI: 10.5220/0001802805350540

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp09,
author={C. Liu and N. H. C. Yung and R. G. Fang},
title={SCALE ROBUST ADAPTIVE FEATURE DENSITY APPROXIMATION FOR VISUAL OBJECT REPRESENTATION AND TRACKING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={535-540},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001802805350540},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - SCALE ROBUST ADAPTIVE FEATURE DENSITY APPROXIMATION FOR VISUAL OBJECT REPRESENTATION AND TRACKING
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - Liu C.
AU - Yung N.
AU - G. Fang R.
PY - 2009
SP - 535
EP - 540
DO - 10.5220/0001802805350540