Learning to track the visual motion of contours
Andrew Blake, Michael Isard and David Reynard
Artificial Intelligence, 78, 101--133. (1995)

Abstract

A development of a method for tracking visual contours is described. Given an ``un-trained'' tracker, a training-motion of an object can be observed over some extended time and stored as an image sequence. The image sequence is used to learn parameters in a stochastic differential equation model. These are used, in turn, to build a tracker whose predictor imitates the motion in the training set. Tests show that the resulting trackers can be markedly tuned to desired curve shapes and classes of motions.

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