Embedding holistic appearance information in part-based adaptive appearance model for robust visual tracking

• Published in: Electronics letters Vol. 49; no. 19; p. 1
• Main Authors: Zeng, F X, Huang, Z T, Ji, Y F
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Stevenage John Wiley & Sons, Inc 12.09.2013
• Subjects: Algorithms; Classifiers; Constants; Construction specifications; Plasticity; Similarity; Tracking; Visual
• ISSN: 0013-5194; 1350-911X

Part-based adaptive appearance model has been extensively used in increasingly popular discriminative trackers. The main problem of these methods is the stability plasticity dilemma. In this paper, the embedding holistic appearance information in the part-based appearance model which is learned online to alleviate this problem is proposed. Specifically, the object is represented by sparse multi-scale Haar-like features and the appearance model is constructed with a naive Bayes classifier. Unlike the conventional methods, the classifier is trained by positive and negative samples that are weighted according to their similarity with the holistic appearance model, which is kept constant during the updating procedure. The constant holistic appearance information providing some constraints when updating the part-based appearance model makes the tracker more stable. The online updating procedure of the part-based appearance model makes the tracker adaptive enough to appearance changes. The experimental results demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed method compared with several state-of-art-the algorithms.