A multiple object tracking approach that combines colour and depth information using a confidence measure

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1504-1514

  Muñoz Salinas, Rafael ^a   Aguirre, Eugenio ^b   García Silvente, Miguel ^b   Gonzalez, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colour processing; Condensation algorithm; Confidence measure; Mean shift; Multiple particle filtering; Stereo vision

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STEREO VISION;

COLOUR PROCESSING; CONDENSATION ALGORITHMS; CONFIDENCE MEASURES; MULTIPLE PARTICLE FILTERING;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 44449090882     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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