A unifying software architecture for model-based visual tracking

Giorgio Panin; Claus Lenz; Martin Wojtczyk; Suraj Nair; Erwin Roth; Thomas Friedlhuber; Alois Knoll

doi:10.1117/12.784609

26 February 2008 A unifying software architecture for model-based visual tracking

Giorgio Panin, Claus Lenz, Martin Wojtczyk, Suraj Nair, Erwin Roth, Thomas Friedlhuber, Alois Knoll

Proceedings Volume 6813, Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications; 681303 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.784609
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

In this paper we propose a general, object-oriented software architecture for model-based visual tracking. The library is general purpose with respect to object model, estimated pose parameters, visual modalities employed, number of cameras and objects, and tracking methodology. The base class structure provides the necessary building blocks for implementing a wide variety of both known and novel tracking systems, integrating different visual modalities, like as color, motion, edge maps etc., in a multi-level fashion, ranging from pixel-level segmentation, up to local features matching and maximum-likelihood object pose estimation. The proposed structure allows integrating known data association algorithms for simultaneous, multiple object tracking tasks, as well as data fusion techniques for robust, multi-sensor tracking; within these contexts, parallelization of each tracking algorithm can as well be easily accomplished. Application of the proposed architecture is demonstrated through the definition and practical implementation of several tasks, all specified in terms of a self-contained description language.

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Giorgio Panin, Claus Lenz, Martin Wojtczyk, Suraj Nair, Erwin Roth, Thomas Friedlhuber, and Alois Knoll "A unifying software architecture for model-based visual tracking", Proc. SPIE 6813, Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications, 681303 (26 February 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.784609

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