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Object tracking method and apparatus using stereo images

  • US 20050216274A1
  • Filed: 02/16/2005
  • Published: 09/29/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An object tracking method comprising:

  • segmenting a segment of a zone, in which an object is located, from a current frame among consecutively input images and obtaining predetermined measurement information of the segment;

    determining a plurality of searching zones centered around the segment and predicting parameters of the segment in the current frame based on measurement information of a preceding frame in the plurality of the searching zones;

    selecting predetermined searching zones as partial searching candidate zones from the predicted parameters of the segment in the current frame;

    measuring a visual cue of the segment; and

    estimating parameters of the segment of the current frame in the partial searching candidate zones based on the visual cue and the predicted parameters and determining parameters having largest estimated parameter values as parameters of the segment.

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