A novel active-contour method is presented and applied to pose refinement and tracking. The main innovation is that no "features" are detected at any stage: contours are simply assumed to remove statistical dependencies between pixels on opposite sides of the contour. This assumption, together with a simple model of shape variability of the geometric models, leads to the application of an EM method for maximizing the likelihood of pose parameters. In addition, a dynamical model of the system leads to the application of a Kalman filter. The method is demonstrated by tracking motor vehicles with 3-D models.
Abstract. An experimental comparison of 'Edge-Element Association (EEA) ' and 'Marginalized Contour (MCo)' approaches for 3D modelbased vehicle tracking in traffic scenes is complicated by the different shape and motion models with which they have been implemented originally. It is shown that the steering-angle motion model originally associated with EEA allows more robust tracking than the angular-velocity motion model originally associated with MCo. Details of the shape models can also make a difference, depending on the resolution of the images. Performance differences due to the choice of motion and shape model can outweigh the differences due to the choice of the tracking algorithm. Tracking failures of the two approaches, however, usually do not happen at the same frames, which can lead to insights into the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two approaches.
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