Combined region- and motion-based 3D tracking of rigid and articulated objects
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 32(3): 402-415, Mar 2010
Abstract: In this paper, we propose the combined use of
complementary concepts for 3D tracking: region fitting on one
side, and dense optical flow as well as tracked SIFT features
on the other. Both concepts are chosen such that they can
compensate for the shortcomings of each other. While tracking by
the object region can prevent the accumulation of errors, optical
flow and SIFT can handle larger transformations. Whereas segmentation works best in case of homogeneous objects, optical flow
computation and SIFT tracking rely on sufficiently structured
objects. We show that a sensible combination yields a general
tracking system that can be applied in a large variety of scenarios
without the need to manually adjust weighting parameters.
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@Article{Bro10, author = "T. Brox and B. Rosenhahn and J. Gall and D. Cremers", title = "Combined region- and motion-based 3D tracking of rigid and articulated objects", journal = "IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence", number = "3", volume = "32", pages = "402-415", month = "Mar", year = "2010", url = "http://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/Publications/2010/Bro10" }