Efficient Illumination Insensitive Object Tracking by Normalized Gradient Matching

We propose a novel tracking algorithm by minimizing the sum-of-squared differences (SSD) between the normalized image gradients of the template image and the input image from the test image sequence. The proposed tracking algorithm is efficient to implement since it is based on the framework of the...

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Published in:IEEE signal processing letters Vol. 14; no. 12; pp. 944 - 947
Main Authors: Guopu Zhu, Guopu Zhu, Shuqun Zhang, Shuqun Zhang, Xijun Chen, Xijun Chen, Changhong Wang, Changhong Wang
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 01.12.2007
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Algorithms
Application software
Computational efficiency
Computer vision
Illumination
Image sequences
Inverse
Inverse compositional algorithm
Lighting
Matching
Minimization methods
normalized gradient matching
Object recognition
Pattern matching
Signal processing
Space technology
template matching
Testing
Tracking
visual tracking
template matching
Inverse compositional algorithm
visual tracking
normalized gradient matching
ISSN:1070-9908, 1558-2361
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Summary:We propose a novel tracking algorithm by minimizing the sum-of-squared differences (SSD) between the normalized image gradients of the template image and the input image from the test image sequence. The proposed tracking algorithm is efficient to implement since it is based on the framework of the inverse compositional algorithm, a computationally efficient tracking technique. The experiments show that the proposed tracking algorithm is superior to the intensity-based inverse compositional algorithm in tracking objects under varying illumination conditions.
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ISSN:1070-9908
1558-2361
DOI:10.1109/LSP.2007.903277