Object Tracking with Radical Change of Color Distribution Using EM algorithm

  • Whoang In-Teck (School of Computer Science & Engineering, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Choi Kwang-Nam (School of Computer Science & Engineering, Chung-Ang University)
  • Published : 2006.06.01

Abstract

This paper presents an object tracking with radical change of color. Conventional Mean Shift do not provide appropriate result when major color distribution disappear. Our tracking approach is based on Mean Shift as basic tracking method. However we propose tracking algorithm that shows good results for an object of radical variation. The key idea is iterative update previous color information of an object that shows different color by using EM algorithm. As experiment results, we show that our proposed algorithm is an effective approach in tracking for a real object include an object having radical change of color.

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