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Real-Time Tracking of Multiple Skin-Colored Objects with a Possibly Moving Camera

Antonis A. Argyros, Manolis I. A. Lourakis
ECCV 2004 pp. 368-379
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24672-5_29 /eccv/2004/argyros2004eccv-real/

Abstract

This paper presents a method for tracking multiple skin-colored objects in images acquired by a possibly moving camera. The proposed method encompasses a collection of techniques that enable the modeling and detection of skin-colored objects as well as their temporal association in image sequences. Skin-colored objects are detected with a Bayesian classifier which is bootstrapped with a small set of training data. Then, an off-line iterative training procedure is employed to refine the classifier using additional training images. On-line adaptation of skin-color probabilities is used to enable the classifier to cope with illumination changes. Tracking over time is realized through a novel technique which can handle multiple skin-colored objects. Such objects may move in complex trajectories and occlude each other in the field of view of a possibly moving camera. Moreover, the number of tracked objects may vary in time. A prototype implementation of the developed system operates on 320x240 live video in real time (28Hz) on a conventional Pentium 4 processor. Representative experimental results from the application of this prototype to image sequences are also provided.

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Argyros and Lourakis. "Real-Time Tracking of Multiple Skin-Colored Objects with a Possibly Moving Camera." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2004. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24672-5_29

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[Argyros and Lourakis. "Real-Time Tracking of Multiple Skin-Colored Objects with a Possibly Moving Camera." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2004.](https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2004/argyros2004eccv-real/) doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24672-5_29

BibTeX

@inproceedings{argyros2004eccv-real,
  title     = {{Real-Time Tracking of Multiple Skin-Colored Objects with a Possibly Moving Camera}},
  author    = {Argyros, Antonis A. and Lourakis, Manolis I. A.},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision},
  year      = {2004},
  pages     = {368-379},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-540-24672-5_29},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2004/argyros2004eccv-real/}
}