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A novel foreground region analysis using NCP-DBP texture pattern for robust visual tracking

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Robust visual tracking is the important stage in the computer vision applications such as robotics, man-free control systems, and the visual surveillance. Accurate motion states estimation and the target representation in visual tracking system are based on the appearances of the target. The factor affects the learning of target representation is the accumulated error due to the pose, illumination changes, and the uneven background. The presence of dynamic background and the shadowing effects causes the visual drift and destructive information. Besides, the misclassification of target region induces the false detection of moving objects. The K-means and Fuzzy-C-means clustering algorithms are available to segment the foreground/background and suppress the shadow region on the basis of the non-changing background of the surveillance area. This paper proposes the novel background normalization technique with textural pattern analysis to suppress the shadow region. The Neighborhood Chain Prediction (NCP) algorithm is used to cluster the uneven background and the Differential Boundary Pattern (DBP) extracts the texture of the video frame to suppress the shadow pixels present in the frame. The lower intensity estimation and the prediction of the area around the lower intensity in proposed work enhance the pixels for shadow removal. The shadow-free frame split up into several grids and the histograms of features are extracted from the grid formatted frame. Finally, the Machine Level Classification (MLC) finds the matching grid corresponds to the tracking region and provides the binary labeling to separate the background and foreground. The proposed DBP-based visual tracking system is high robustness over the sudden illumination changes and the dynamic background due to the texture pattern analysis. The comparison of proposed NCP-DBP combination with the existing segmentation techniques regarding the accuracy, precision, recall, F-measure, success and error rate assured the effectiveness in visual tracking applications.

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Mohanapriya D., Mahesh K. A novel foreground region analysis using NCP-DBP texture pattern for robust visual tracking. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 25731–25748 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4409-3

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