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Parametric tracking of legs by exploiting Intelligent Edge

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In this paper the idea of Intelligent scissors is adopted for contour tracking in dynamic image sequence. Tracking contour of human can therefore be converted to tracking seed points in images by making use of the properties of the optimal path (Intelligent Edge). The main advantage of the approach is that it can handle correctly occlusions that occur frequently when human is moving. Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS) is used to represent parametrically the contour that one wants to track. In order to track robustly the contour in images, similarity and compatibility measurements of the edge are computed as the weighting functions of optimal estimator. To reduce dramatically the computational load, an efficient method for extracting the region interested is proposed. Experiments show that the approach works robustly for sequences with frequent occlusions.

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Chun-Hong Pan received his Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and intelligent system from Institute of Automation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in 2000. Then he worked on computer vision in University of Southern California in USA for one and a half years as a visiting scholar. Currently he works at National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, CAS. His main research interest is computer vision, pattern recognition, and remote sensing.

Hong-Ping Yan received her Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and intelligent system from Institute of Automation, CAS, in 2002. After that, she spent one year in Iwate University as an invited scientific researcher in plant modeling and visualization. Currently she works in INRIA in France as a post-doctoral. Her research topic lies in plant modeling and visualization, computer graphics, and pattern recognition.

Song-De Ma received his Ph.D. degree in image processing and computer vision from University of Paris 6 in 1983. Since 1986, he has been a professor at National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, CAS. He has been the vice-minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of China since April 2000. His research interests include computer vision, computer graphics, and pattern recognition.

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Pan, CH., Yan, HP. & Ma, SD. Parametric tracking of legs by exploiting Intelligent Edge. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 19, 674–683 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02945594

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