A Low Cost and Computationally Efficient Approach for Occlusion Handling in Video Surveillance Systems

In the development of intelligent video surveillance systems for tracking a vehicle, occlusions are one of the major challenges. It becomes difficult to retain features during occlusion especially in case of complete occlusion. In this paper, a target vehicle tracking algorithm for Smart Video Surveillance (SVS) is proposed to track an unidentified target vehicle even in case of occlusions. This paper proposes a computationally efficient approach for handling occlusions named as Kalman Filter Assisted Occlusion Handling (KFAOH) technique. The algorithm works through two periods namely tracking period when no occlusion is seen and detection period when occlusion occurs, thus depicting its hybrid nature. Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi (KLT) feature tracker governs the operation of algorithm during the tracking period, whereas, a Cascaded Object Detector (COD) of weak classifiers, specially trained on a large database of cars governs the operation during detection period or occlusion with the assistance of Kalman Filter (KF). The algorithm’s tracking efficiency has been tested on six different tracking scenarios with increasing complexity in real-time. Performance evaluation under different noise variances and illumination levels shows that the tracking algorithm has good robustness against high noise and low illumination. All tests have been conducted on the MATLAB platform. The validity and practicality of the algorithm are also verified by success plots and precision plots for the test cases

A key-point based approach for long-term visual tracking

In the thesis the problem of long-term visual tracking is addressed. The main challenges of the problem are on-line learning of the target's visual appearance, recognition of target's absence and it's redetection. A part-based tracker is proposed using local features and affine transformation. Long-term tracking is performed with tracking-by-detection, supported by optical flow in the short term. Two nested methods are used when fitting the transformation: firstly, a cluster of potential target points is defined, then the affine deformation is robustly estimated. New model features are added based on the global shape template, that is updated by the features themselves, forming a feedback-loop. The tracker is tested on two groups of sequences, the first targeting long-term and the second short-term trackers. The results are compared with the state-of-the-art methods. The performance of the tracker is comparable, though the problem of redetection should be more carefully addressed

The matrioska tracking algorithm on LTDT2014 dataset

We present a quantitative evaluation of Matrioska, a novel framework for the detection and tracking in real-time of unknown object in a video stream, on the LTDT2014 dataset that includes six sequences for the evaluation of single-object long-term visual trackers. Matrioska follows the approach of tracking by detection: the detector localizes the target object in each frame, using multiple keypoint-based methods. To account for appearance changes, the learning module updates both the target object and background model with a growing and pruning approac