A Multiple Object Tracking Method Using Kalman Filter

摘要：

It is important to maintain the identity of multiple targets while tracking them in some applications such as behavior understanding. However, unsatisfying tracking results may be produced due to different real-time conditions. These conditions include: inter-object occlusion, occlusion of the ocjects by background obstacles, splits and merges, which are observed when objects are being tracked in real-time. In this paper, an algorithm of feature-based using Kalman filter motion to handle multiple objects tracking is proposed. The system is fully automatic and requires no manual input of any kind for initialization of tracking. Through establishing Kalman filter motion model with the features centroid and area of moving objects in a single fixed camera monitoring scene, using information obtained by detection to judge whether merge or split occurred, the calculation of the cost function can be used to solve the problems of correspondence after split happened. The algorithm proposed is validated on human and vehicle image sequence algorithm proposed achieve efficient tracking of multiple moving objects under the confusing situations.

关键词： Kalam filter motion model multi-object tracking Occlusion

作者: Xin Li Kejun Wang Wei Wang Yang Li

作者单位: Engineering Training Center of HarBin Engineering University Harbin,Heilongjiang Province,150001,Chi Automation College of Harbin Engneering University Harbin,Heilongjiang Province,150001,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2010 IEEE信息与自动化国际会议(ICIA 2010)

会议地点: 哈尔滨

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-5

在线出版日期: 2010-06-20（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）