基于改进运动历史图像的多运动目标实时跟踪

提出了一种利用视频图像对运动目标进行实时检测与跟踪的新方法.该方法利用基于改进的时间片的运动历史图像(tMHI)的灰度阶梯轮廓方法对多个运动目标进行检测,通过卡尔曼滤波器对多目标进行跟踪,并得到了各个运动目标的轨迹曲线,进而实现了对视频图像中多目标的跟踪.同时,该方法对多个目标的遮挡问题获得了明显的改善效果.实验结果表明,该方法能够对复杂场景下的多个目标进行有效的识别和准确的跟踪,系统的实时性强,识别率高,而且该方法对于复杂视频监视系统场景中的光照变化、雨雾等干扰具有较强的稳健性.     

Layered Representation of a Video Shot with Mosaicing

: This paper presents a motion segmentation method useful for representing efficiently a video shot as a static mosaic of the background plus sequences of the objects moving in the foreground. This generates an MPEG-4 compliant, layered representation useful for video coding, editing and indexing. First, a mosaic of the static background is computed by estimating the dominant motion of the scene. This is achieved by tracking features over the video sequence and using a robust technique that discards features attached to the moving objects. The moving objects get removed in the final mosaic by computing the median of the grey levels. Then, segmentation is obtained by taking the pixelwise difference between each frame of the original sequence and the mosaic of the background. To discriminate between the moving object and noise, temporal coherence is exploited by tracking the object in the binarised difference image sequence. The automatic computation of the mosaic and the segmentation procedure are illustrated with real sequences experiments. Examples of coding and content-based manipulation are also shown. Received: 31 August 2000, Received in revised form: 18 April 2001, Accepted: 20 July 2001     

Multi-body Factorization with Uncertainty: Revisiting Motion Consistency

Dynamic analysis of video sequences often relies on the segmentation of the sequence into regions of consistent motions. Approaching this problem requires a definition of which motions are regarded as consistent. Common approaches to motion segmentation usually group together points or image regions that have the same motion between successive frames (where the same motion can be 2D, 3D, or non-rigid). In this paper we define a new type of motion consistency, which is based on temporal consistency of behaviors across multiple frames in the video sequence. Our definition of consistent “temporal behavior” is expressed in terms of multi-frame linear subspace constraints. This definition applies to 2D, 3D, and some non-rigid motions without requiring prior model selection. We further show that our definition of motion consistency extends to data with directional uncertainty, thus leading to a dense segmentation of the entire image. Such segmentation is obtained by applying the new motion consistency constraints directly to covariance-weighted image brightness measurements. This is done without requiring prior correspondence estimation nor feature tracking.     

交互式分割视频运动对象的研究与实现

在 MPEG- 4视频编码标准中 ,为了实现基于视频内容的交互功能 ,视频序列的每一帧由视频对象面来表示 ,而生成视频对象面 ,需要对视频序列中运动对象进行有效分割 ,并跟踪运动对象随时间的变化 .在视频分割方法中 ,交互式分割视频对象能满足分割的效率与质量指标要求 ,因此提出了一种交互分割与自动跟踪相结合的方式来分割视频语义对象 ,即在初始分割时 ,依据用户的交互与形态学的分水线分割算法相结合提取视频对象轮廓 ,并用改进的轮廓跟踪方法有效提高视频对象轮廓的精度 ;对后续帧的跟踪 ,采用六参数仿射变换跟踪运动对象轮廓的变化 ,用平移估算的运动矢量作为初始值 ,计算六参数仿射变换的参数 .实验结果表明 ,该方法能有效地分割并跟踪视频运动对象     

基于小波变换和ICA的运动目标分割

提出一种时空融合的运动目标分割方法.在时域方面,采用时间轴一维小波变换提取运动对象,然后用独立成分分析法提取独立的运动对象,并基于灰度直方图进一步提取视频对象;在空域方面,提出对轮廓提取后的图像进行分水岭变换的改进方法.与COST211 AM算法比较表明,文中方法能更完整、准确地提取出运动对象.     

Detecting independent motion: the statistics of temporal continuity

We consider a problem central in aerial visual surveillance applications; detection and tracking of small, independently moving objects in long and noisy video sequences. We directly use spatiotemporal image intensity gradient measurements to compute an exact model of background motion. This allows the creation of accurate mosaics over many frames, and the definition of a constraint violation function which acts as an indicator of independent motion. A novel temporal integration method maintains confidence measures over long subsequences without computing the optic flow, requiring object models, or using a Kalman filter. The mosaic acts as a stable feature frame, allowing precise localization of the independently moving objects. We present a statistical analysis of the effects of image noise on the constraint violation measure and find a good match between the predicted probability distribution function and the measured sample frequencies in a test sequence     

一种时空联合的视频运动目标提取与跟踪新算法

提出了一种时空联合的视频运动目标提取与跟踪新算法。在空域分割中,针对分水岭方法过分割现象明显的缺点,对分水岭分割方法进行了改进;在时域分割中,首先对全局运动进行了补偿,随后为消除仅用两帧帧差进行对象分割所带来的误差,采用多帧帧差求和的方法,并自适应选取累积帧差的二值化阈值;时空分割结果进行投影融合后得到视频对象,提出用一种基于区域子块匹配的方法跟踪视频对象。实验结果表明,该算法简洁有效,能较好地把对象从运动背景中提取出来,并实现跟踪。     

Moving object detection and segmentation in urban environments from a moving platform

This paper proposes an effective approach to detect and segment moving objects from two time-consecutive stereo frames, which leverages the uncertainties in camera motion estimation and in disparity computation. First, the relative camera motion and its uncertainty are computed by tracking and matching sparse features in four images. Then, the motion likelihood at each pixel is estimated by taking into account the ego-motion uncertainty and disparity in computation procedure. Finally, the motion likelihood, color and depth cues are combined in the graph-cut framework for moving object segmentation. The efficiency of the proposed method is evaluated on the KITTI benchmarking datasets, and our experiments show that the proposed approach is robust against both global (camera motion) and local (optical flow) noise. Moreover, the approach is dense as it applies to all pixels in an image, and even partially occluded moving objects can be detected successfully. Without dedicated tracking strategy, our approach achieves high recall and comparable precision on the KITTI benchmarking sequences.     

基于视觉注意机制的目标跟踪方法

提出一种基于视觉注意机制的运动目标跟踪方法。该方法借鉴人类的视觉注意机制的研究成果,建立视觉注意机制的计算模型,计算视频中各部分内容的视觉显著性。结合视觉显著性计算结果,提取视频图像中的显著性目标。利用颜色分布模型作为目标的特征表示模型,与视频中各显著目标进行特征匹配,实现目标的跟踪。在多个视频序列中进行实验,并给出相应的实验结果及分析。实验结果表明,提出的目标检测与跟踪算法是正确有效的。     

基于B 样条Snake模型的人体运动跟踪方法研究*

提出了一种基于B-样条曲线Snake模型的新的人体运动跟踪方法.Snake算法是通过最小能量来逼近物体的轮廓.采用改进的B-样条曲线Snake模型,每一帧图像中的目标轮廓用三次样条曲线准确地表示,使Snake模型更加稳定和具有较快的收敛速度.计算相邻帧之间的差分图像,通过利用一种基于统计关系双阈值分割方法,有效地检测出图像中运动人体,初步确定目标在每帧图像中的粗略位置.把从上一帧图像中得到的目标轮廓置于该位置,作为B-样条曲线Snake算法中轮廓提取的初始值,经运算后可得到对人体目标的准确分割与跟踪.     

Video sequence motion tracking by fuzzification techniques

In this paper a method for moving objects segmentation and tracking from the so-called permanency matrix is introduced. Our motion-based algorithms enable to obtain the shapes of moving objects in video sequences starting from those image pixels where a change in their grey levels is detected between two consecutive frames by means of the permanency values. In the segmentation phase matching between objects along the image sequence is performed by using fuzzy bi-dimensional rectangular regions. The tracking phase performs the association between the various fuzzy regions in all the images through time. Finally, the analysis phase describes motion through a long video sequence. Segmentation, tracking an analysis phases are enhanced through the use of fuzzy logic techniques, which enable to work with the uncertainty of the permanency values due to image noise inherent to computer vision.     

分割视频运动对象的研究

随着新的视频压缩标准MPEG-4的出现,如何从视频序列中分割出在语义上有意义的单独运动对象显得极其重要。文章从组成视频运动对象的分割系统出发,详细分析视频分割的各种方法如运动参数模型。变化检测掩模、图象分割及运动对象跟踪等,并对分割运动对象所采用的技术和方法进行了讨论。     

Tracking multiple moving objects by binary object forest segmentation

In an earlier study it was shown that the low level image segmentation technique known as binary object forest (BOF) analysis could be successfully used to extract one or two moving objects from complex backgrounds, even when the motion involved was very large. The method involved performing BOF analysis on each of a pair of images from a sequence and then matching the vertices of the resulting graphs. In the present study the problem of tracking multiple objects in complex backgrounds and in difficult circumstances such as partial occlusion, is considered. The approach taken is once again to perform an initial BOF analysis of each image but now to attempt matching over subgraphs of the BOF rather than simply on individual vertices. It is shown theoretically and experimentally that this results in a much more robust matching scheme. This increase in robustness not only allows multiple objects to be tracked but facilitates correct matching even when partial object occlusion occurs and when motion towards the sensor results in large (apparent) size changes between frames.     

基于块仿射分类和HD跟踪的视频分割方法*

提出一种自动视频分割方法,分为运动对象检测、对象跟踪、模型更新、分水岭轮廓提取四个阶段。与变化检测方法不同,该基于块的运动分类器能够检测背景具有一致运动情况下的运动对象。自动得到运动对象的二值模型并在随后帧中使用Hausdorff距离进行跟踪。将视频对象运动分为慢变和快变两部分,分别结合背景边缘模型进行匹配更新。最后提出彩色多尺度梯度修正的分水岭算法提取对象的轮廓。实验证明了算法的有效性。     

Learned Models for Estimation of Rigid and Articulated Human Motion from Stationary or Moving Camera

We propose an approach for modeling, measurement and tracking of rigid and articulated motion as viewed from a stationary or moving camera. We first propose an approach for learning temporal-flow models from exemplar image sequences. The temporal-flow models are represented as a set of orthogonal temporal-flow bases that are learned using principal component analysis of instantaneous flow measurements. Spatial constraints on the temporal-flow are then incorporated to model the movement of regions of rigid or articulated objects. These spatio-temporal flow models are subsequently used as the basis for simultaneous measurement and tracking of brightness motion in image sequences. Then we address the problem of estimating composite independent object and camera image motions. We employ the spatio-temporal flow models learned through observing typical movements of the object from a stationary camera to decompose image motion into independent object and camera motions. The performance of the algorithms is demonstrated on several long image sequences of rigid and articulated bodies in motion.     

Contour extraction of moving objects in complex outdoor scenes

This paper presents a new approach to the extraction of the contour of a moving object. The method is based on the fusion of a motion segmentation technique using image subtraction and a color segmentation technique based on the split-and-merge paradigm and edge information obtained from using the Canny edge detector. The advantages of this method are the following: it can detect large moving objects, the background can be arbitrarily complicated and contain many nonmoving objects, and it requires only three image frames that need not be consecutive provided that the moving object is entirely contained in the three frames. It is assumed that there is only one moving object in the image and the objects are not blurred by their motion so that the edges in the image are sharp. The method was applied to road images containing a moving vehicle, and the results show that the contour was correctly extracted in 18 of the 20 cases. We show that this contour extraction method gives good results for other types of moving objects as well. We also describe how the extracted contour can be used to classify a given vehicle into five generic categories. In this study, 19 out of the 20 vehicles were correctly classified. These results demonstrate that integration of multiple cues obtained from relatively simple image analysis techniques leads to a robust extraction of the object of interest in complex outdoor scenes.Research supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation through the Great Lakes Center for Truck Transportation Research and by a grant from the National Science Foundation (CDA-8806599).     

Perceptual Organization Based Computational Model for Robust Segmentation of Moving Objects

The role of perceptual organization in motion analysis has heretofore been minimal. In this work we present a simple but powerful computational model and associated algorithms based on the use of perceptual organizational principles, such as temporal coherence (or common fate) and spatial proximity, for motion segmentation. The computational model does not use the traditional frame by frame motion analysis; rather it treats an image sequence as a single 3D spatio-temporal volume. It endeavors to find organizations in this volume of data over three levels—signal, primitive, and structural. The signal level is concerned with detecting individual image pixels that are probably part of a moving object. The primitive level groups these individual pixels into planar patches, which we call the temporal envelopes. Compositions of these temporal envelopes describe the spatio-temporal surfaces that result from object motion. At the structural level, we detect these compositions of temporal envelopes by utilizing the structure and organization among them. The algorithms employed to realize the computational model include 3D edge detection, Hough transformation, and graph based methods to group the temporal envelopes based on Gestalt principles. The significance of the Gestalt relationships between any two temporal envelopes is expressed in probabilistic terms. One of the attractive features of the adopted algorithm is that it does not require the detection of special 2D features or the tracking of these features across frames. We demonstrate that even with simple grouping strategies, we can easily handle drastic illumination changes, occlusion events, and multiple moving objects, without the use of training and specific object or illumination models. We present results on a large variety of motion sequences to demonstrate this robustness.     

基于H．264压缩域的实时运动对象分割算法

在压缩域内直接分割运动对象对于有实时要求的应用而言是十分必要的，H．264以其优越的压缩效率已经在许多应用中逐渐取代了MPEG-2／4，但有关在H．264压缩域内进行运动对象分割的研究还很少。为此提出了一种从H.264压缩域实时分割运动对象的算法，该算法首先对从H．264视频中提取出的原始运动矢量场进行时域和空域的归一化，接着通过对连续多帧的运动矢量场进行累积来增强显著的运动信息；然后对累积运动矢量场进行全局运动补偿，同时利用快速的统计区域生长算法按照运动相似性将其分割成多个区域；最后利用运动矢量场的方向角直方图来判断出属于运动对象的分割区域，以组成运动对象。通过对多个MPEG-4测试序列的实验结果表明，该方法不仅能够从H．264压缩域中实时地分割出运动对象，且具有良好的分割质量。