Basis pursuit for tracking

This paper introduces a novel adaptive texture feature selection algorithm for tracking. Specifically, we provide a statistical wavelet basis paradigm to maximally separate statistical characteristics of the object-in-interest and its background. The algorithm is based upon nonlinearly selecting basis elements out of dual dictionaries in an iterative fashion to continually improve a cost function that is suitable for tracking. We demonstrate that such a selection is effective with several difficult sequences that are affected by lighting changes, occlusion and background motion.