Description: This paper proposes a new method of extracting and tracking
a nonrigid object moving while allowing camera movement. For object
extraction we first detect an object using watershed segmentation
technique and then extract its contour points by approximating the
boundary using the idea of feature point weighting. For object tracking
we take the contour to estimate its motion in the next frame by the
maximum likelihood method. The position of the object is estimated using
a probabilistic Hausdorff measurement while the shape variation is
modelled using a modified active contour model. The proposed method is
highly tolerant to occlusion. Because the tracking result is stable unless
an object is fully occluded during tracking, the proposed method can be
applied to various applications.
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