Mixing hough and color histogram models for accurate real-time object tracking

Antoine Tran, Antoine Manzanera

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Abstract

This paper presents a new object tracking algorithm, which does not rely on offline supervised learning. We propose a very fast and accurate tracker, exclusively based on two complementary low-level features: gradient-based and color-based features. On the first hand, we compute a Generalized Hough Transform, indexed by gradient orientation. On the second hand, a RGB color histogram is used as a global rotation-invariant model. These two parts are processed independently, then merged to estimate the object position. Then, two confidence maps are generated and combined to estimate the object size. Experiments made on VOT2014 and VOT2015 datasets show that our tracker is competitive among all competitors (in accuracy and robustness, ranked in the top 10 and top 15 respectively), and is one of the few trackers running at more than 100, fps on a laptop machine, with one thread. Thanks to its low memory footprint, it can also run on embedded systems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Analysis of Images and Patterns - 17th International Conference, CAIP 2017, Proceedings
EditorsAnders Heyden, Michael Felsberg, Norbert Kruger
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages43-54
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783319646886
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event17th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2017 - Ystad, Sweden
Duration: 22 Aug 201724 Aug 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10424 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2017
Country/TerritorySweden
CityYstad
Period22/08/1724/08/17

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