This presentation provides an overview of object tracking, outlining its importance in computer vision and various applications, from security to interface development. It covers definitions, classifications, algorithms, challenges, and future directions for enhancing tracking accuracy through automatic feature selection. The discussion emphasizes the necessity to address issues like occlusion and re-identification in real-time tracking scenarios.

1. A Presentation
on
Object Tracking
Presented by
Shweta Kanhere-Banait
shweta.kanhere@gmail.com

2. Outline
• Introduction to Object tracking
• Definition
• Flowchart
• Tracking classifications
• Object Tracking Algorithms
• Comparison
• Challenges of object tracking
• Observations/Conclusion
• Application
• Future work
• References
• Thank you

3. Introduction to Object tracking
• Computer vision has received great attention over the last two decades.
• This research field is important not only in security related software, but also
in advanced interface between people and computers, advanced control
methods and many other areas.
• Object tracking play a key role .

4. Definition
Object tracking is a discipline within computer vision, which aims to track
objects as they move across a series of video frames. Objects are often people,
but may also be animals, vehicles or other objects of interest, such as the ball in
a game of soccer.

5. Flowchart

6. Tracking classifications
• Primitive geometric shapes
• Articulated shape models
• Skeletal models
• Point Tracking
• Kernel Tracking
• Silhouette Tracking

7. Point Tracking
Deterministic
Method
Maximum
velocity
Smooth motion
Proximal uniformity
Common motion
Proximity
Rigidity
Statistical or Probabilistic Method
Multiple object Tracking.
Single object
Tracking.
Kalman Filter
Particle Filter
Joint Probability Data
Association Filter (JPDAF)
Multiple Hypothesis Tracking

8. Kernel Tracking
Support Vector Machines
(SVM)
Template Tracking Mean Shift
Method
Layering Based- Matching

9. Silhouette-Based Object Tracking
• When object is represented by the outlines with only single solid color
in between the outlines made up of edges is known as silhouette.
• It is used where object cannot be represented by the simple geometric
shapes or by set of points.
• Silhouette is feature-less, therefore object model is created with help
of contour, edge information, color histogram etc.

10. Object Tracking Algorithms
 1. Absolute Differences 2. Census Method 3. Feature Based Method
• Mean-shift
• KLTP
• Condensation
• Tracking-Learning-Detection (TLD)
• Tracking Based on Boundary of the Object
Popular object tracking algorithms that use deep learning methods:
• SORT
• GOTURN
• MDNet

11. SORT
• Object detection Engine
• The algorithm tracks multiple objects in real time, associating the objects
in each frame with those detected in previous frames using simple
heuristics

12. …SORT

13. …SORT
Poor Good Excellent

14. …SORT

15. GOTURN
• Generic Object Tracking Using Regression Network
• GOTURN is trained by comparing pairs of cropped frames from
thousands of video sequences

16. …GOTURN

17. …GOTURN
• https://youtu.be/kMhwXnLgT_I

18. ….MDNet
• Multi Domain Network (MDNet) is a CNN architecture that won the VOT2015
challenge.
• The objective of MDNet is to speed up training in order to provide real-time results
• https://youtu.be/zYM7G5qd090

21. Challenges of object tracking
• Re-identification
• Appearance and disappearance
• Occlusion (snow ,storm, snow on the ground, fog, air turbulence etc)
• Illumination
• Co-ordinates matching in case of multiple camera systems
• Pose variation of the object
• Motion blur
To perform tracking with these challenges in real time make tracking tedious

22. Observations
• Tracking approaches that employ a stable model can only accommodate
small changes in the object appearance but do not explicitly handle
severe occlusions or continuous appearance changes.
• A potential approach to overcome the limitation is to learn different
views of the object and later use them during tracking.
• A tracker that takes advantage of contextual information to incorporate
general constraints on shape and motion of objects will usually perform
better than the one that does not exploit this information.
• The capability to learn object models online may greatly increase the
applicability of a tracker

23. Application
• Video surveillance,
• Vision-based control
• Video compression
• Human computer interfaces
• Robotics

24. Future work
• The accuracy of object tracking could potentially increase by developing
methods for a more automatic selection process of features.
• We know from experience that a human tends do make more mistake than a
computer program optimized for a certain purpose.
• Automatic feature selection has received attention in the area of pattern
recognition, where methods for this purpose are divided into filter methods
and wrapper methods.
• However, these have not gotten the same attention in the area of object
tracking, where feature selection still is mostly done manually.
• There could be room for improvement in object tracking by developing fast
and accurate methods for automatic feature selection.

25. References:
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• Moving Object Detection Approaches, Challenges and Object Tracking
• https://missinglink.ai/guides/computer-vision/object-tracking-deep-learning/
• Li, F. Li, and M. Zhang, “A Real-time Detecting and Tracking Method for Moving Objects Basedon Color Video,” in 2009 Sixth
International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging andVisualization. IEEE, 2009, pp. 317–322.
• Object Detection and Tracking, Fatih Porikli and Alper Yilmaz
• Abdurrahman, "Smart video-based surveillance: Opportunities and challenges from image processing perspectives," 2016 3rd
International Conference on Information Technology, Computer, and Electrical Engineering (ICITACEE), Semarang, 2016, pp.
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• W. Kim and C. Jung, "Illumination-Invariant Background Subtraction: Comparative Review, Models, and Prospects," in IEEE
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• Nesne Takibinde Uyarlanabilir Arama Alanı Adaptive Search Area in the Object Tracking , Kazım HANBAY , Bingöl
Üniversitesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü, Bingöl, Türkiye , Bingöl, Türkiye

26. Thank you!

27. Discussion !