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Real-Time Vision Tracking Algorithm

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Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006 (ICCSA 2006)

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Real-time object tracking is recently becoming very important in many video processing tasks. Applications like video surveillance, robotics, people tracking, etc., need reliable and economically affordable video tracking tools. Most of current available solutions are, however, computationally intensive and sometimes require expensive video hardware. In this paper, we propose a new object tracking algorithm for real-time video that relies in the combination of a similarity measure with an euclidian metric. This approach infers the trajectory of a moving object by applying a very simple optimization method which makes the tracking algorithm robust and easy to implement. Experimental results are provided to demonstrate the performance of the proposed tracking algorithm in complex real-time video sequence scenarios.

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  1. Facultad de Ciencias, UASLP, Av. Dr. Salvador Nava s/n, Zona Universitaria, C.P. 78290, San Luis Potosi, S.L.P., Mexico

    Edgar R. Arce-Santana, Jose M. Luna-Rivera, Daniel U. Campos-Delgado & Ulises Pineda-Rico

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary,, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  4. OptimaNumerics Ltd.,, Cathedral House 23-31 Waring Street, BT1 2DX, Belfast, UK

    C. J. Kenneth Tan

  5. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia

    David Taniar

  6. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganá

  7. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  8. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

    Hyunseung Choo

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Arce-Santana, E.R., Luna-Rivera, J.M., Campos-Delgado, D.U., Pineda-Rico, U. (2006). Real-Time Vision Tracking Algorithm. In: Gavrilova, M.L., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3984. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751649_45

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