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A method is presented for tracking general curved objects through 3-space, given a sequence of grey-level images. The explicit recovery of 3D features is avoided and results demonstrate the method to be stable, accurate and robust. The object model has two parts — a tracking model and a grey-level model; the former specifies which features of the object are tracked, and the latter determines the appearance of these features. The method assumes initial position is known. Visible features are tracked using correlation between their rendered appearance and the next frame, to give a set of disparities. These disparities are used to invert the perspective transform and give the new position of the object.
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Bray, A.J. (1991). Tracking Curved Objects by Perspective Inversion. In: Mowforth, P. (eds) BMVC91. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1921-0_20
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