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Method and system for automatic object detection and subsequent object tracking in accordance with the object shape

US8948450B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

iAd Gesellschaft für Informatik, Automatisierung und Datenverarbeitung mbH · DE

Inventors

Hermann Hampel · Großhabersdorf, DE
Ulrich Berold · Nuremberg, DE
Katharina Quast · Erlangen, DE
André Kaup · Hohenkirchen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 22, 2010
Grant date	Feb 3, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 9, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2207/30232
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and system for automatic object detection and subsequent object tracking in accordance with the object shape in digital video systems having at least one camera for recording and transmitting video sequences. In accordance with the method and system, an object detection algorithm based on a Gaussian mixture model and expanded object tracking based on Mean-Shift are combined with each other in object detection. The object detection is expanded in accordance with a model of the background by improved removal of shadows, the binary mask generated in this way is used to create an asymmetric filter core, and then the actual algorithm for the shape-adaptive object tracking, expanded by a segmentation step for adapting the shape, is initialized, and therefore a determination at least of the object shape or object contour or the orientation of the object in space is made possible.

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