FUSION OF MOTION SEGMENTATION WITH ONLINE ADAPTIVE NEURAL CLASSIFIER FOR ROBUST TRACKING

Abstract : This paper presents a method to fuse the information from motion segmentation with online adaptive neural classifier for robust object tracking. The motion segmentation with object classification identify new objects present in the video sequence. This information is used to initialize the online adaptive neural classifier which is learned to differentiate the object from its local background. The neural classifier can adapt to illumination variations and changes in appearance. Initialized objects are tracked in following frames using the fusion of their neural classifiers with the feedback from the motion segmentation. Fusion is used to avoid drifting problems due to similar appearance in the local background region. We demonstrate the approach in several experiments using benchmark video sequences with different level of complexity.