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Frontiers of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

ISSN 2095-2732

ISSN 2095-2740(Online)

CN 10-1028/TM

Front. Electr. Electron. Eng.    2008, Vol. 3 Issue (3) : 274-282    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11460-008-0045-z
Relative discriminant coefficient based multi-cue fusion for robust object tracking
WANG Jiangtao, YANG Jingyu
Department of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology
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Abstract In visual tracking, integrating multiple cues will increase the reliability and robustness of the tracking system in situations where no single cue is reliable. In this paper, a novel multi-cue based tracking method is presented under the particle filter framework. Considering both practical distance and Bhattacharyya distance between particles and the target, a parameter called relative discriminant coefficient (RDC) is designed to measure the tracking ability for different features. Multi-cue fusion is carried out in a reweighing manner based on this parameter. Experimental results demonstrate the high robustness and effectiveness of our method in handling appearance changes, cluttered background, illumination changes and occlusions.
Issue Date: 05 September 2008
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YANG Jingyu,WANG Jiangtao. Relative discriminant coefficient based multi-cue fusion for robust object tracking[J]. Front. Electr. Electron. Eng., 2008, 3(3): 274-282.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/fee/EN/Y2008/V3/I3/274
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