Monitoring of natural scenes for feature extraction and tracking an independent component analysis (ICA) approach

An independent component analysis (ICA) approach to monitoring of natural scenes empirically generates robust image features for localization and tracking of potentially-occluded targets. The ICA-based empirical model utilizes statistical techniques that assist analysts in characterizing the underlying criteria that enables such feature extraction. Thus, this approach provides a basis for analyzing how the empirically generated feature localization and tracking models and related algorithms to perform their function.