An information theoretic approach for tracker performance evaluation

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1523-1529

  Kao, Edward K ^a   Daggett, Matthew P ^a   Hurley, Michael B ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TRACKING; COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; CONDITIONAL ENTROPY; EVALUATION APPROACH; GROUND TRUTH; INFORMATION CONTENTS; INFORMATION QUALITY; INFORMATION-THEORETIC APPROACH; INFORMATION-THEORETIC METRICS; MEASURE OF PERFORMANCE; MULTI-TARGET TRACKING; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; OTHER APPLICATIONS; PARAMETER-TUNING; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SIGNAL DETECTION THEORY; SYSTEM TRACKS; TRACK DETECTION; TRACKER PERFORMANCE; TRACKING ALGORITHM; WIDE AREA SURVEILLANCE;

COMPUTER VISION; INFORMATION THEORY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRACKING (POSITION);

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 77953206142     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCV.2009.5459275     Document Type: Conference Paper

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