Tracking with the EM Contour Algorithm

Abstract

A novel active-contour method is presented and applied to pose refinement and tracking. The main innovation is that no ”features” are detected at any stage: contours are simply assumed to remove statistical dependencies between pixels on opposite sides of the contour. This assumption, together with a simple model of shape variability of the geometric models, leads to the application of an EM method for maximizing the likelihood of pose parameters. In addition, a dynamical model of the system leads to the application of a Kalman filter. The method is demonstrated by tracking motor vehicles with 3-D models.

Cite

Text

Pece and Worrall. "Tracking with the EM Contour Algorithm." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2002. doi:10.1007/3-540-47969-4_1

Markdown

[Pece and Worrall. "Tracking with the EM Contour Algorithm." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2002.](https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2002/pece2002eccv-tracking/) doi:10.1007/3-540-47969-4_1

BibTeX

@inproceedings{pece2002eccv-tracking,
  title     = {{Tracking with the EM Contour Algorithm}},
  author    = {Pece, Arthur E. C. and Worrall, Anthony D.},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision},
  year      = {2002},
  pages     = {3-17},
  doi       = {10.1007/3-540-47969-4_1},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2002/pece2002eccv-tracking/}
}