Visual measurement cues for face tracking

Particle filters allow for visual trackers with nonlinear measurements. In this paper we consider three different non-linear visual measurement cues, based on object detection, foreground segmentation and colour matching. Novel ways to obtain robust measurement likelihoods under a unified representation scheme are discussed, followed by a likelihood combination scheme for fusion. The resulting single and multi-cue particle filter trackers are compared in the scope of face tracking.

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