Aerial Infrared Object Tracking via an improved Long-term Correlation Filter with optical flow estimation and SURF matching

Wang, Xiaotian; Zhang, Kai; Zhang, Ximing; Li, Shaoyi; Yan, Jie

doi:10.1016/j.infrared.2021.103790

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“…Camera movement tracking technology (CMTT) [1] has a wide range of applications, such as video surveillance [2], robot vision [3], and unmanned vehicles [4], and medical image analysis [5]. Video surveillance systems typically require object tracking to ensure security [2]. Robot vision systems rely on precise location information to perform various tasks [3], while autonomous driving technology depends on CMTT for environmental perception and navigation, ensuring safety and efficiency during vehicle operation [4].…”

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Sparse optical flow outliers elimination method based on Borda stochastic neighborhood graph

Wang,

Li,

Wang

et al. 2024

Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol.

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During the tracking of moving targets in dynamic scenes, efficiently handling outliers in the optical flow and maintaining robustness across various motion amplitudes represents a critical challenge. So far, studies have used thresholding and local consistency based approaches to deal with optical outliers. However, there is subjectivity through expert-defined thresholds or delineated regions, and therefore these methods do not perform consistently enough under different target motion amplitudes. Other studies have focused on complex statistical-mathematical modelling which, although theoretically valid, requires significant computational resources. Aiming at the above problems this paper proposes a new method to calculate the optical outliers by using stochastic neighborhood graph combined with the Borda counting method, which reduces the computation amount on the basis of objectively eliminating the outliers. Sparse optical flow values are used as the overall population and the outlier and inlier sparse optical flow values are used as samples. Analyze the dissimilarity between sparse optical flow data points, obtaining the dissimilarity matrix, introducing the Gaussian function to smooth and reduce the dimensionality of the dissimilarity matrix, and then normalizing the smoothing matrix to generate the binding matrix, where the probability sum of each node to other nodes in the matrix is equal to 1. Stochastic neighborhood graphs are then generated based on a binding matrix to obtain the outlier probabilities of data points in different neighborhood graphs, and outlier samples are obtained based on the probability. To avoid the subjectivity of the expert thresholds, the outlier probabilities are weighted and ranked to calculate the data point Borda scores to obtain accurate optical outliers. The experimental results show that the method in this paper is robust to different amplitude motions and real scenarios, and the accuracy, precision and recall of outliers elimination are better than the current mainstream algorithms.

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