Robust visual tracking using structural region hierarchy and graph matching

Neurocomputing

Volumn 89, Issue , 2012, Pages 12-20

  Song, Yi Zhe ^a,b   Li, Chuan ^b   Wang, Liang ^c   Hall, Peter ^b   Shen, Peiyi ^d  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^d XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Graph matching; Image hierarchy; Tracking

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND CLUTTER; COLOR HISTOGRAM; COMBINED FEATURES; ENERGY FUNCTIONS; GRAPH MATCHING PROBLEMS; GRAPH MATCHINGS; IMAGE HIERARCHY; MOVING CAMERAS; OBJECT TRACKING; ROBUST ALGORITHM; SIFT DESCRIPTORS; TRACKING PROCESS; VIDEO FRAME; VISUAL TRACKING;

IMAGE MATCHING; SURFACE DISCHARGES; TRACKING (POSITION);

PATTERN MATCHING;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECOGNITION; WALKING;

EID: 84862810964     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: 18728286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2011.11.030     Document Type: Article

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