Entropy-based metrics for the analysis of partial and total occlusion in video object tracking

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 487-497

  Loutas, E ^a   Pitas, I ^a   Nikou, C ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; CORRELATION METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION THEORY; MOTION ESTIMATION; TRACKING (POSITION);

ENTROPY BASED METRICS; MUTUAL INFORMATION; TRACKING ALGORITHM; VIDEO OBJECT TRACKING;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 14344260354     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:20040738     Document Type: Article

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