Title :
An improved video object tracking algorithm based on motion re-estimation
Author :
Lim, Jiingecin ; Cho, Hong K. ; Ra, Jong Beom
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
In this paper, we try to improve a video object-tracking algorithm using a motion re-estimation scheme. The usual object tracking algorithm is composed of two steps: object projection and boundary refinement. Since a single motion model cannot represent the movement of a semantic object, it is not precise enough to refine the object boundary. Therefore, we segment the video object by an efficient segmentation algorithm. If errors are large in some regions, they are selected for re-estimating motion models. By projecting those regions using new estimated motion models, we can obtain more reliable object projection, which can produce accurate tracking results. The simulation results show that the tracked boundary of the video object having complicated motion is improved
Keywords :
image segmentation; motion estimation; tracking; video signal processing; boundary refinement; motion re-estimation; object boundary; object projection; semantic object; simulation results; video object segmentation; video object tracking algorithm; Computer science; Histograms; MPEG 4 Standard; Motion estimation; Object segmentation; Tracking; Video sequences;
Conference_Titel :
Image Processing, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6297-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICIP.2000.900964