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Kalman Filter Ensemble-Based Tracker

Authors : Pedro Senna ([email protected]) , Isabela Drummond and Guilherme Bastos


Dependencies

This code was tested in linux systems with the following specifications:

Ubuntu 16.04, probabily work on Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 or Debian Jessie (8.5)

opencv 3.1.0


Tests videos

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuCzbviUtv_HWaTeeCcmCDxa09hdahimf


Quick start guide

mkdir build && cd build

cmake ..

make

Will be creator two binaries, "KF-EBT" to be used with the VOT tollkit and "KF-EBT_WebCam" that runs using a webcam.

In the KF-EBT_WebCam, select with the mouse the upper left corner and then the lower right corner of the object of interest in the image.


References

If you find it useful or use it in your research, please cite our paper.

@InProceedings{SennaDrumBast:2017:ReEnTr,
               author = "Senna, Pedro and Drummond, Isabela Neves and Bastos, Guilherme Sousa",
                title = "Real-time ensemble-based tracker with Kalman filter",
            booktitle = "Electronic Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI'17)",
                 year = "2017",
         organization = "Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images, 30.(SIBGRAPI)",
  conference-location = "Niter{\'o}i, RJ",
      conference-year = "Oct. 17-20, 2017",
             language = "en",
                  url = "http://urlib.net/sid.inpe.br/sibgrapi/2017/08.21.23.41"
}

Copyright (c) 2017, Pedro Senna

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for research purposes is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.


Third-party software credits

Our tracker use several different trackers, and some files are provided by others and modified to work with our method.

The files trackers/kcf/kcf.h

	      /kcf.c

	      /complexmat.hpp

Are provided by Tomáš Vojíř kcf implementation

Source: https://github.com/vojirt/kcf

The files in trackers/ASMS are provided by Tomáš Vojíř ASMS implementation

Source: https://github.com/vojirt/asms

The files in trackers/CBT/consensus/

Are provided by Georg Nebehay CppMT implementation

Source: https://github.com/gnebehay/CppMT

The Files in trackers/NCC/* and vot.h file are provided by VootToolkit Source: https://github.com/votchallenge/vot-toolkit