Deformable Object Tracking

We address the problem of visual tracking of arbitrary objects that undergo significant scale and appearance changes. The classical tracking methods rely on the bounding box surrounding the target object. Regardless of the tracking approach, the use of bounding box quite often introduces background information. This information propagates in time and its accumulation quite often results in drift and tracking failure. This is particularly the case with the particle filtering approach that is often used for visual tracking. However, it always uses a bounding box around the object to compute features of the particle samples. Since this causes the drift, we propose to use segmentation for sampling. Relying on segmentation and computing the colour and gradient orientation histograms from these segmented particle samples allows the tracker to easily adapt to the object's deformations, occlusions, orientation, scale and appearance changes. We propose two particle sampling strategies based on segmentation. In therest, segmentation is done for every propagated particle sample, while in the second only the strongest particle sample is segmented. Depending on this decision there is obviously a trade-o between speed and performance.

This project comes from a collaboration with EADS Innovations Works, Germany.

Contact Person: Vasileios Belagiannis (TUM), Falk Schubert (EADS).

Currently, we do not offer our code but you can contact us (belagian@in.tum.de) for evaluating on your sequences.

Dataset

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You can download the evaluation dataset with the annotations HERE .

Evaluation Sequences No. of Frames Image Resolution
01. Actions 2 [29] 2113 960X540
02. Entrance 196 720X576
03. Exit 1 186 720X576
04. Exit 2 172 720X576
05. Skiing [7] 81 640X360
06. UAV [28] 716 368X288
07. Bridge 55 720X576
08. Pedestrian 1 [27] 379 640X480
09. Pedestrian 2 [26] 352 720X576
10. Cliff -dive 1 [7] 76 400X226
11. Mountain-bike [7] 228 640X360
12. Motocross 2 [7] 23 640X360
13. Head 231 320X240