15 research outputs found
Using mutual information for multi-anchor tracking of human beings
Tracking of human beings represents a hot research topic in the field
of video analysis. It is attracting an increasing attention among researchers
thanks to its possible application in many challenging tasks. Among these, action
recognition, human/human and human/computer interaction require bodypart
tracking. Most of the existing techniques in literature are model-based approaches,
so despite their effectiveness, they are often unfit for the specific requirements
of a body-part tracker. In this case it is very hard if not impossible
to define a formal model of the target. This paper proposes a multi-anchor
tracking system, which works on 8 bits color images and exploits the mutual information
to track human body parts (head, hands, ...) without performing any
foreground/background segmentation. The proposed method has been designed
as a component of a more general system aimed at human interaction analysis.
It has been tested on a wide set of color video sequences and the very promising
results show its high potential
Using Mutual Information for Multi-Anchor Tracking of Human Beings
Tracking of human beings represents a hot research topic in the field of video analysis. It is attracting an increasing attention among researchers thanks to its possible application in many challenging tasks. Among these, action recognition, human/human and human/computer interaction require body-part tracking. Most of the existing techniques in literature are model-based approaches, so despite their effectiveness, they are often unfit for the specific requirements of a body-part tracker. In this case it is very hard if not impossible to define a formal model of the target. This paper proposes a multi-anchor tracking system, which works on 8 bits color images and exploits the mutual information to track human body parts (head, hands, âŠ) without performing any foreground/background segmentation. The proposed method has been designed as a component of a more general system aimed at human interaction analysis. It has been tested on a wide set of color video sequences and the very promising results show its high potential
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New fusional framework combining sparse selection and clustering for key frame extraction
Key frame extraction can facilitate rapid browsing and efficient video indexing in many applications. However, to be effective, key frames must preserve sufficient video content while also being compact and representative. This study proposes a syncretic key frame extraction framework that combines sparse selection (SS) and mutual informationâbased agglomerative hierarchical clustering (MIAHC) to generate effective video summaries. In the proposed framework, the SS algorithm is first applied to the original video sequences to obtain optimal key frames. Then, using contentâloss minimisation and representativeness ranking, several candidate key frames are efficiently selected and grouped as initial clusters. A postâprocessor â an improved MIAHC â subsequently performs further processing to eliminate redundant images and generate the final key frames. The proposed framework overcomes issues such as information redundancy and computational complexity that afflict conventional SS methods by first obtaining candidate key frames instead of accurate key frames. Subsequently, application of the improved MIAHC to these candidate key frames rather than the original video not only results in the generation of accurate key frames, but also reduces the computation time for clustering large videos. The results of comparative experiments conducted on two benchmark datasets verify that the performance of the proposed SSâMIAHC framework is superior to that of conventional methods