Paper Title:

Occluded Object Tracking Based on Mean Shift and Accumulation Error Suppression

Periodical Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 117 - 119)
Main Theme Materials and Computational Mechanics
Edited by Huixuan Zhang, Ye Han, Fuxiao Chen and Jiuba Wen
Pages 20-24
DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.117-119.20
Citation Hong Lu et al., 2011, Applied Mechanics and Materials, 117-119, 20
Online since October, 2011
Authors Hong Lu, Hong Sheng Li, Shu Min Fei, Wei Feng Cao
Keywords Accumulation Error, Mean-Shift, Model Updating, Occluded Object, Tracking
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Abstract

To handle occlusion and accumulation error in tracking procedure, a novel method is proposed. Firstly, the object feature is modeled with kernel based color histogram. Then, mean shift is used to localizing the object with Kalman filter providing initial iteration location and scale. Object observation value is acquired by weighting the similarities of hue and saturation in x and y-directions. Finally, occlusion and scene disturbance are judged by maximal similarity and the matching deviation, so as to selectively update the object model. To suppress the accumulation error, the noise covariance is updated according to the iteration error in the latest N frames. Experimental results show that the proposed method is robust in tracking the occluded objects under complex scene.