联合Kalman和自适应Meanshift的稳健相关视频跟踪方法

相关视频跟踪器存在计算量大、模板漂移、对机动目标,杂波影响大以及遮挡情况无法跟踪的问题,而Kalman滤波能通过利用相关跟踪器的输出结果来预测目标在下一帧里在图像中的坐标,可以在高概率的小范围内对目标进行搜索,以大幅减小计算量和杂波的影响.然后,当跟踪器由于受到杂波或遮挡的影响而提供了错误的测量信息时,跟踪的性能将大幅下降.大量研究表明,Mean-Shift跟踪器具有运算速度快和跟踪性能好的特点,而当目标柱状图和待选图像区域相近时,其跟踪性能也将大幅下降,甚至无法进行跟踪.为了解决该问题,结合上述3种思想提出了一种改进的、稳健的视频目标跟踪方法,并通过理论分析和仿真结果表明了算法的有效性和优越性.

Joint Kalman and Adaptive Mean shift Based Robust Correlative Visual Tracking Algorithm

Correlation tracker is computation intensive (if the search space or the template is large), has template drift problem, and may fail in case of fast maneuvering target, rapid changes in its appearance, occlusion suffered by it and clutter in the scene. Kalman filter can predict the target coordinates in the next frame, if the measurement vector is supplied to it by a correlation tracker. Thus, a relatively small search space can be determined where the probability of finding the target in the next frame is high. This way, the tracker can become fast and reject the clutter, which is outside the search space in the scene. However, if the tracker provides wrong measurement vector due to the clutter or the occlusion inside the search region, the efficacy of the filter is significantly deteriorated. Mean-shift tracker is fast and has shown good tracking results in the literature, but it may fail when the histograms of the target and the candidate region in the scene are similar (even when their appearance is different). In order to make the overall visual tracking framework robust to the mentioned problems, we propose to combine the three approaches heuristically, so that they may support each other for better tracking results