Title :
Snakes for object contour tracking in stereo sequences
Author :
Kim, Shin-Hyoung ; Jang, Jong Whan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., PaiChai Univ., Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
In this paper, we propose a snake algorithm for tracking contours of object in stereo sequences with cluttered background. Our newly designed algorithm is developed by using disparity information taken from stereo image sequence. The proposed algorithm can successfully extract the concave contour of an object and track the contour in a complex image. Performance of the proposed algorithm has been verified by simulation.
Keywords :
feature extraction; image segmentation; image sequences; stereo image processing; tracking; cluttered background; concave contour extraction; disparity information; object contours tracking; snake algorithm; stereo image sequence; Active contours; Algorithm design and analysis; Data mining; Focusing; Image sequences; Motion compensation; Robot kinematics; Spline; Tracking; Video surveillance;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia and Expo, 2005. ICME 2005. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9331-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICME.2005.1521513
