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Learning for multi-view 3D tracking in the context of particle filters

J. Gall, B. Rosenhahn, Thomas Brox, U. Kersting, H. Seidel
Advances in Visual Computing, Springer, LNCS, Vol.4292: 59-69, Nov. 2006
Abstract: In this paper we present an approach to use prior knowledge in the particle filter framework for 3D tracking, i.e. estimating the state parameters such as joint angles of a 3D object. The probability of the object's states, including correlations between the state parameters, is learned a priori from training samples. We introduce a framework that integrates this knowledge into the family of particle filters and particularly into the annealed particle filter scheme. Furthermore, we show that the annealed particle filter also works with a variational model for level set based image segmentation that does not rely on background subtraction and, hence, does not depend on a static background. In our experiments, we use a four camera set-up for tracking the lower part of a human body by a kinematic model with 18 degrees of freedom. We demonstrate the increased accuracy due to the prior knowledge and the robustness of our approach to image distortions. Finally, we compare the results of our multi-view tracking system quantitatively to the outcome of an industrial marker based tracking system.


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@InProceedings{Bro06e,
  author       = "J. Gall and B. Rosenhahn and T. Brox and U. Kersting and H.-P. Seidel",
  title        = "Learning for multi-view 3D tracking in the context of particle filters",
  booktitle    = "Advances in Visual Computing",
  series       = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  volume       = "4292",
  pages        = "59-69",
  month        = "Nov.",
  year         = "2006",
  publisher    = "Springer",
  url          = "http://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/Publications/2006/Bro06e"
}

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