Maintaining multimodality through mixture tracking
- 1 January 2003
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 1110-1116 vol.2
- https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv.2003.1238473
Abstract
In recent years particle filters have become a tremendously popular tool to perform tracking for nonlinear and/or nonGaussian models. This is due to their simplicity, generality and success over a wide range of challenging applications. Particle filters, and Monte Carlo methods in general, are however poor at consistently maintaining the multimodality of the target distributions that may arise due to ambiguity or the presence of multiple objects. To address this shortcoming this paper proposes to model the target distribution as a nonparametric mixture model, and presents the general tracking recursion in this case. It is shown how a Monte Carlo implementation of the general recursion leads to a mixture of particle filters that interact only in the computation of the mixture weights, thus leading to an efficient numerical algorithm, where all the results pertaining to standard particle filters apply. The ability of the new method to maintain posterior multimodality is illustrated on a synthetic example and a real world tracking problem involving the tracking of football players in a video sequence.Keywords
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