Measuring Particles in Joint Feature-Spatial Space

Liang SHA  Guijin WANG  Anbang YAO  Xinggang LIN 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences  Vol.E92-A  No.7  pp.1737-1742
Publication Date: 2009/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Vision
Keyword: 
object tracking,  particle filter (PF),  mixture Gaussian kernel function (MGKF),  state transition model, 

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Summary: 
Particle filter has attracted increasing attention from researchers of object tracking due to its promising property of handling nonlinear and non-Gaussian systems. In this paper, we mainly explore the problem of precisely estimating observation likelihoods of particles in the joint feature-spatial space. For this purpose, a mixture Gaussian kernel function based similarity is presented to evaluate the discrepancy between the target region and the particle region. Such a similarity can be interpreted as the expectation of the spatial weighted feature distribution over the target region. To adapt outburst of object motion, we also present a method to appropriately adjust state transition model by utilizing the priors of motion speed and object size. In comparison with the standard particle filter tracker, our tracking algorithm shows the better performance on challenging video sequences.