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Multi-object tracking using binary masks

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Multi-object tracking using binary masks
In this paper, we introduce a new method for tracking multiple objects. The method combines Kalman filtering and the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm in a novel way to deal with observations that obey a Gaussian mixture model instead of a unimodal distribution that is assumed by the ordinary Kalman filter. It also involves a new approach to measuring the object locations using a series of morphological operations with binary masks. The benefit of this approach is that soft assignment of the measurements to corresponding objects can be performed automatically using their a posteriori probabilities. This is a general approach for multi-object tracking, and there are basically various ways to segment the objects, but in this paper we use simple color features simply to demonstrate the feasibility of the concept.
Sami Huttunen, Janne Heikkilä
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where ICIP
Authors Sami Huttunen, Janne Heikkilä
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