The Condensation Algorithm --- conditional density propagation and applications to visual tracking.

Andrew Blake and Michael Isard.

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 9, 361--368, ed. T. Petsche, MIT Press.

Abstract

The power of sampling methods in Bayesian reconstruction of noisy signals is well known. The extension of sampling to temporal problems is discussed. Efficacy of sampling over time is demonstrated with visual tracking.

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