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25 September 2003 Object tracking in infrared imagery
Hui Chen, Ming Tang, Hanqing Lu
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Proceedings Volume 5286, Third International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.538978
Event: Third International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, 2003, Beijing, China
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a robust approach for object tracking in infrared imagery. Our method mainly applies the image intensity histogram distribution and intensity projection distributions and computes a likelihood measure between the candidate and the model distributions by evaluating the Mean Shift Vector. In addition, Gabor filters are applied here to enhance the contrast of the object with the background, and then the scale of the track window can be selected according to the variable object size. Our method greatly improves the accuracy of object tracking and can update the model frame by frame, which means the object model does not necessarily depend on that of the first frame. The robustness of our method is supported by several different infrared imagery sequences.
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Hui Chen, Ming Tang, and Hanqing Lu "Object tracking in infrared imagery", Proc. SPIE 5286, Third International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, (25 September 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.538978
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KEYWORDS
Infrared imaging

Infrared radiation

Infrared search and track

Optical tracking

Detection and tracking algorithms

Image filtering

Signal to noise ratio

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