An on-line learning tracking of non-rigid target combining multiple-instance boosting and level set

Mingming Chen; Jingju Cai

doi:10.1117/12.2031170

26 October 2013 An on-line learning tracking of non-rigid target combining multiple-instance boosting and level set

Mingming Chen, Jingju Cai

Proceedings Volume 8918, MIPPR 2013: Automatic Target Recognition and Navigation; 891802 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2031170
Event: Eighth International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, 2013, Wuhan, China

Abstract

Visual tracking algorithms based on online boosting generally use a rectangular bounding box to represent the position of the target, while actually the shape of the target is always irregular. This will cause the classifier to learn the features of the non-target parts in the rectangle region, thereby the performance of the classifier is reduced, and drift would happen. To avoid the limitations of the bounding-box, we propose a novel tracking-by-detection algorithm involving the level set segmentation, which ensures the classifier only learn the features of the real target area in the tracking box. Because the shape of the target only changes a little between two adjacent frames and the current level set algorithm can avoid the re-initialization of the signed distance function, it only takes a few iterations to converge to the position of the target contour in the next frame. We also make some improvement on the level set energy function so that the zero level set would have less possible to converge to the false contour. In addition, we use gradient boost to improve the original multi-instance learning (MIL) algorithm like the WMILtracker, which greatly speed up the tracker. Our algorithm outperforms the original MILtracker both on speed and precision. Compared with the WMILtracker, our algorithm runs at a almost same speed, but we can avoid the drift caused by background learning, so the precision is better.

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Mingming Chen and Jingju Cai "An on-line learning tracking of non-rigid target combining multiple-instance boosting and level set", Proc. SPIE 8918, MIPPR 2013: Automatic Target Recognition and Navigation, 891802 (26 October 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2031170

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