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This work presents a novel computed tomography reconstruction method for few‐view problem based on a compound method. To overcome the disadvantages of total variation (TV) minimization method, we use a high‐order norm coupled within TV and the numerical scheme for our method is given. We use the root mean square error as a referee. The numerical experiments demonstrate that our method achieves better performance than existing reconstruction methods, including filtered back projection, expectation maximization, and TV with projection on convex sets. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, 23, 249–255, 2013

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Mutual occlusions among targets can cause track loss or target position deviation, because the observation likelihood of an occluded target may vanish even when we have the estimated location of the target. This paper presents a novel probability framework for multitarget tracking with mutual occlusions. The primary contribution of this work is the introduction of a vectorial occlusion variable as part of the solution. The occlusion variable describes occlusion states of the targets. This forms the basis of the proposed probability framework, with the following further contributions: 1) Likelihood: A new observation likelihood model is presented, in which the likelihood of an occluded target is computed by referring to both of the occluded and occluding targets. 2) Priori: Markov random field (MRF) is used to model the occlusion priori such that less likely "circular" or "cascading" types of occlusions have lower priori probabilities. Both the occlusion priori and the motion priori take into consideration the state of occlusion. 3) Optimization: A realtime RJMCMC-based algorithm with a new move type called "occlusion state update" is presented. Experimental results show that the proposed framework can handle occlusions well, even including long-duration full occlusions, which may cause tracking failures in the traditional methods.