Probabilistic index histogram for robust object tracking

Wei Li*, Xiaoqin Zhang, Nianhua Xie, Weiming Hu, Wenhan Luo, Haibin Ling

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Abstract

Color histograms are widely used for visual tracking due to their robustness against object deformations. However, traditional histogram representation often suffers from problems of partial occlusion, background cluttering and other appearance corruptions. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic index histogram to improve the discriminative power of the histogram representation. With this modeling, an input frame is translated into an index map whose entries indicate indexes to a separate bin. Based on the index map, we introduce spatial information and the bin-ratio dissimilarity in histogram comparison. The proposed probabilistic indexing technique, together with the two robust measurements, greatly increases the discriminative power of the histogram representation. Both qualitative and quantitative evaluations show the robustness of the proposed approach against partial occlusion, noisy and clutter background.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision - ACCV 2010 Workshops - ACCV 2010 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers
Pages184-194
Number of pages11
EditionPART1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Workshops on Computer Vision, ACCV 2010 - Queenstown, New Zealand
Duration: 8 Nov 20109 Nov 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART1
Volume6468 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Workshops on Computer Vision, ACCV 2010
Country/TerritoryNew Zealand
CityQueenstown
Period8/11/109/11/10

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