Motion detection and tracking using space-time interest points

Space-Time Interest Points (STIP) are among all the interesting features which can be extracted from videos; they are simple, robust and they allow a good characterization of a set of regions of interest corresponding to moving objects in a three-dimensional observed scene. In this paper, we show how the resulting features often reflect interesting events that can be used for a compact representation of video data as well as for tracking. For a good detection of moving objects, we propose to apply the algorithm of the detection of spatiotemporal interest points on both components of the decomposition which is based on a partial differential equation (PDE): a geometric structure component and a texture component. Proposed results are obtained from very different types of videos, namely sport videos and animation movies.