Efficient illumination insensitive object tracking by normalized gradient matching

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 944-947

  Zhu, Guopu ^a   Zhang, Shuqun ^b   Chen, Xijun ^a   Wang, Changhong ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b City College of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Gradient matching; Inverse algorithms; Inverse compositional algorithm; Normalized gradient matching; Template matching; Visual tracking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GRADIENT METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; TRACKING (POSITION);

COMPOSITIONAL ALGORITHM; IMAGE GRADIENTS; SUM-OF-SQUARED DIFFERENCES (SSD);

LIGHTING;

EID: 36749093399     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2007.903277     Document Type: Article

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