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Automatic Detection of Object of Interest and Tracking in Active Video

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Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2009 (PCM 2009)

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We propose a novel method for automatic detection of Object of Interest (OOI) and tracking from actively acquired videos. The proposed approach benefits the object-centered property of Active Video and facilitates self-initialization in tracking by a non-calibrated camera. We first use a color-saliency weighted Probability-of-Boundary (cPoB) map for keypoints filtering and salient region detection. Successive Classification Maximum Similarities (SCMS) feature matching is used for tracking between two consecutive frames. A strong classifier trained on-the-fly by AdaBoost is utilized for keypoint classification and subsequent Linear Programming rejects outliers. Experiments demonstrate the importance of active video during the data collection phase and confirm that our new approach can automatically detect and reliably track OOI in videos.

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  1. Vision and Media Lab, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada

    Jiawei Huang & Ze-Nian Li

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  1. Naresuan University, 65000, Phisanulok, Thailand

    Paisarn Muneesawang

  2. Microsoft Research Asia, 100109, Beijing, China

    Feng Wu

  3. Tokyo Institute of Technology, 226-8503, Yokohama, Japan

    Itsuo Kumazawa

  4. Mahanakorn University of Technology, 10530, Bankok, Thailand

    Athikom Roeksabutr

  5. Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

    Mark Liao

  6. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong,  

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Huang, J., Li, ZN. (2009). Automatic Detection of Object of Interest and Tracking in Active Video. In: Muneesawang, P., Wu, F., Kumazawa, I., Roeksabutr, A., Liao, M., Tang, X. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2009. PCM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5879. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10467-1_32

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