Spatial selection for attentional visual tracking

Long-duration tracking of general targets is quite challenging for computer vision, because in practice target may undergo large uncertainties in its visual appearance and the unconstrained environments may be cluttered and distractive, although tracking has never been a challenge to the human visual system. Psychological and cognitive findings indicate that the human perception is attentional and selective, and both early attentional selection that may be innate and late attentional selection that may be learned are necessary for human visual tracking. This paper proposes a new visual tracking approach by reflecting some aspects of spatial selective attention, and presents a novel attentional visual tracking (AVT) algorithm. In AVT, the early selection process extracts a pool of attentional regions (ARs) that are defined as the salient image regions which have good localization properties, and the late selection process dynamically identifies a subset of discriminative attentional re...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CVPR
• Authors: Ming Yang, Junsong Yuan, Ying Wu
• Keywords: Attentional Visual Tracking, Computer Vision, CVPR 2007, Discriminative Attentional Regions, Human Visual System, Human Visual Tracking, Visual Tracking Approach