Dynamic Partitioned Sampling For Tracking With Discriminative Features

We present a multi-cue fusion method for tracking with particle filters which relies on a novel hierarchical sampling strategy. Similarly to previous works, it tackles the problem of tracking in a relatively high-dimensional state space by dividing such a space into partitions, each one corresponding to a single cue, and sampling from them in a hierarchical manner. However, unlike other approaches, the order of partitions is not fixed a priori but changes dynamically depending on the reliability of each cue, i.e. more reliable cues are sampled first. We call this approach Dynamic Partitioned Sampling (DPS). The reliability of each cue is measured in terms of its ability to discriminate the object with respect to the background, where the background is not described by a fixed model or by random patches but is represented by a set of informative "background particles" which are tracked in order to be as similar as possible to the object. The effectiveness of this general framework is demonstrated on the specific problem of head tracking with three different cues: colour, edge and contours. Experimental results prove the robustness of our algorithm in several challenging video sequences

Multi-View Face Recognition From Single RGBD Models of the Faces

This work takes important steps towards solving the following problem of current interest: Assuming that each individual in a population can be modeled by a single frontal RGBD face image, is it possible to carry out face recognition for such a population using multiple 2D images captured from arbitrary viewpoints? Although the general problem as stated above is extremely challenging, it encompasses subproblems that can be addressed today. The subproblems addressed in this work relate to: (1) Generating a large set of viewpoint dependent face images from a single RGBD frontal image for each individual; (2) using hierarchical approaches based on view-partitioned subspaces to represent the training data; and (3) based on these hierarchical approaches, using a weighted voting algorithm to integrate the evidence collected from multiple images of the same face as recorded from different viewpoints. We evaluate our methods on three datasets: a dataset of 10 people that we created and two publicly available datasets which include a total of 48 people. In addition to providing important insights into the nature of this problem, our results show that we are able to successfully recognize faces with accuracies of 95% or higher, outperforming existing state-of-the-art face recognition approaches based on deep convolutional neural networks