Probabilistic boundary-based contour tracking with snakes in natural cluttered video sequences

International Journal of Image and Graphics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 469-498

  Tsechpenakis, Gabriel ^a   Tsapatsoulis, Nicolas ^a   Kollias, Stefanos ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Model based snakes; object partial occlusion; rule driven tracking

Indexed keywords

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; MOTION TRACKING; OBJECT DETECTION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SECURITY SYSTEMS; VIDEO RECORDING; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DEFORMABLE TEMPLATES; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FACIAL FEATURE TRACKING; MODEL-BASED OPC; MOVING OBJECT DETECTION AND TRACKING; OBJECT BASED CODING; PARTIAL OCCLUSIONS; RULE-DRIVEN;

OBJECT TRACKING;

EID: 80052846581     PISSN: 02194678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219467804001518     Document Type: Article

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