Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Object Tracking in Low-Frame-Rate Video

Citation:   Porikli, F.; Tuzel, O., "Object Tracking in Low-Frame-Rate Video", SPIE Image and Video Communications and Processing, Vol. 5685, pp. 72-79, March 2005 (SPIE Publications)
MERL Report:  TR2005-013

In this paper, we present an object detection and tracking algorithm for low-frame-rate applications. We extend the standard mean-shift technique such that is is not limited within a single kernel but uses multiple kernels centered around high motion areas obtained by change detection. We also improve the convergence properties of the mean-shift by integrating two additional likelihood terms using object templates. Our simulations prove the effectiveness of the proposed method both under heavy occlusions and low frame rates down to 1-fps.

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