Object tracking method and apparatus using stereo images
First Claim
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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Abstract
An object tracking method and apparatus, the method includes: 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 searching zones; selecting predetermined searching zones as partial searching candidate zones from the predicted parameters; 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 the largest parameter values from the estimated parameters as parameters of the segment.
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31 Claims
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1. An object tracking method comprising:
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 30)
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15. An object tracking apparatus comprising:
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an image inputting unit consecutively inputting images including a zone having an object;
an image segmenting unit detecting and segmenting a segment of the zone from a current frame among the input images and obtaining predetermined measurement information of the segment;
a predicting unit determining a plurality of searching zones centered around the segment and predicting parameters of the segment in the current frame based on the measurement information of a preceding frame in the plurality of the searching zones;
a visual cue measuring unit measuring a visual cue including at least one of probabilities of average depth information, color information, motion information, shape information of the segment, or combinations thereof; and
a tracking unit estimating parameters of the segment for the current frame in the searching zones based on the visual cue and the predicted parameters and determining parameters having largest parameters among the estimated parameters as parameters of the segment for use in tracking the object in a future frame. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. An object tracking method comprising:
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detecting an object from an input image;
determining a position of the detected object;
calculating possible prior positions of the detected object;
measuring a visual cue of the detected object in order to estimate a post position of the detected object; and
calculating the post position of the detected object from the visual cue. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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31. An object tracking apparatus to track objects in images having corresponding frames, the apparatus comprising:
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an image segmenting unit detecting an object in a corresponding zone of an image and segmenting a segment of the zone from a current frame and obtaining predetermined measurement information of the segment;
a predicting unit determining at least one search zone centered around the segment and predicting parameters of the segment in the current frame based on the measurement information of a preceding frame in the at least one searching zone;
a visual cue measuring unit measuring a visual cue using the segment; and
a tracking unit estimating parameters of the segment for the current frame in the search zone based on the visual cue and the predicted parameters and determining parameters having largest parameters among the estimated parameters as parameters of the segment for use in tracking the object in a future frame.
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