This paper presents a decentralized approach to multiple target tracking. The novelty of this approach lies in the use of a set of autonomous while collaborative trackers to overcome the tracker coalescence problem with linear complexity. In this approach, the individual trackers are autonomous in the sense that they can select targets to track and evaluate themselves, and they are also collaborative since they need to compete for the targets against those trackers that are close to them through communication. The theoretical foundation of this new approach is based on the variational analysis of a Markov network that reveals the collaborative mechanism through fixed point iteration among these trackers and the existence of the equilibriums. In addition, a trained object detector is incorporated to help sense the potential newly appearing targets in the dynamic scene. Experimental results on challenging video sequences demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method.


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    Title :

    Decentralized multiple target tracking using netted collaborative autonomous trackers


    Contributors:
    Ting Yu, (author) / Ying Wu, (author)


    Publication date :

    2005-01-01


    Size :

    328338 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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