Robust visual tracking via CAMShift and structural local sparse appearance model

A new background analysis method is proposed based on sparse representation.We propose a semi-global weighted search algorithm for the local optimization problem.We develop a model update strategy for long-term robust tracking. This paper addresses issues in visual tracking where videos contain object intersections, pose changes, occlusions, illumination changes, motion blur, and similar color distributed background. We apply the structural local sparse representation method to analyze the background region around the target. After that, we reduce the probability of prominent features in the background and add new information to the target model. In addition, a weighted search method is proposed to search the best candidate target region. To a certain extent, the weighted search method solves the local optimization problem. The proposed scheme, designed to track single human through complex scenarios from videos, has been tested on some video sequences. Several existing tracking methods are applied to the same videos and the corresponding results are compared. Experimental results show that the proposed tracking scheme demonstrates a very promising performance in terms of robustness to occlusions, appearance changes, and similar color distributed background.

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