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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2002
Mohamed Khames Ben Hadj Miled, East Boston, MA (US);
Fehmi Chebil, Irving, TX (US);
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
A method and device for tracking a region-of-interest in a sequence of image frames, wherein the boundary of the target region of a previous frame is projected onto the current frame so that a search area in the current frame can be established. For every pixel in the search area in the current frame, a search window is established in the previous frame so as to find a matched pixel within the search window. If the matched pixel is within the ROI of the previous frame, then the corresponding pixel in the current frame is preliminarily considered as a pixel within the ROI of the current frame. This backward matching is carried out using a low pass subband in the wavelet domain. The preliminary ROI in the current frame is then refined using edge detection in a high frequency subband.