Dynamic proposal variance and optimal particle allocation in particle filtering for video tracking

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1268-1279

  Pan, Pan ^a   Schonfeld, Dan ^a  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic proposal variance; Optimal particle allocation; Particle filter; Tracking distortion; Video tracking

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; PHOTOGRAPHY; TELEVISION EQUIPMENT; VIDEO RECORDING;

DYNAMIC PROPOSAL VARIANCE; OPTIMAL PARTICLE ALLOCATION; PARTICLE FILTER; TRACKING DISTORTION; VIDEO TRACKING;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

EID: 53849127873     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2008.928889     Document Type: Article

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