Exclusive Block Matching for Moving Object Extraction and Tracking

Zhu LI  Kenichi YABUTA  Hitoshi KITAZAWA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E93-D   No.5   pp.1263-1271
Publication Date: 2010/05/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E93.D.1263
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Image Recognition, Computer Vision
Keyword: 
moving object extraction,  tracking,  block matching,  linear assignment,  

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Summary: 
Robust object tracking is required by many vision applications, and it will be useful for the motion analysis of moving object if we can not only track the object, but also make clear the corresponding relation of each part between consecutive frames. For this purpose, we propose a new method for moving object extraction and tracking based on the exclusive block matching. We build a cost matrix consisting of the similarities between the current frame's and the previous frame's blocks and obtain the corresponding relation by solving one-to-one matching as linear assignment problem. In addition, we can track the trajectory of occluded blocks by dealing with multi-frames simultaneously.