Dictionary learning for a sparse appearance model in visual tracking

This paper presents a novel approach to visual object tracking based on particle filtering. The tracked object is modelled by a sparse representation provided by dictionary learning. Such an approach permits to describe the target by a model of reduced dimension. The likelihood of a candidate region is built on a similarity measure between the sparse representations of a set of patches (at known positions) in the dictionary learnt from the reference template. Experimental validation is performed on various video sequences and shows the robustness of the proposed approach.