Visual Tracking with Similarity Matching Ratio

Aysegul Dundar, Jonghoon Jin, Eugenio Culurciello

2013

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to visual tracking: Similarity Matching Ratio (SMR). The traditional approach of tracking is minimizing some measures of the difference between the template and a patch from the frame. This approach is vulnerable to outliers and drastic appearance changes and an extensive study is focusing on making the approach more tolerant to them. However, this often results in longer, corrective algorithms which do not solve the original problem. This paper proposes a novel approach to the definition of the tracking problems, SMR, which turns the differences into probability measures. Only pixel differences below a threshold count towards deciding the match, the rest are ignored. This approach makes the SMR tracker robust to outliers and points that dramatically change appearance. The SMR tracker is tested on challenging video sequences and achieves state-of-the-art performance.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Dundar A., Jin J. and Culurciello E. (2013). Visual Tracking with Similarity Matching Ratio . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-48-8, pages 280-285. DOI: 10.5220/0004288602800285

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp13,
author={Aysegul Dundar and Jonghoon Jin and Eugenio Culurciello},
title={Visual Tracking with Similarity Matching Ratio},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={280-285},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004288602800285},
isbn={978-989-8565-48-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)
TI - Visual Tracking with Similarity Matching Ratio
SN - 978-989-8565-48-8
AU - Dundar A.
AU - Jin J.
AU - Culurciello E.
PY - 2013
SP - 280
EP - 285
DO - 10.5220/0004288602800285