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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2000
Hai Tao, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Rakesh Kumar, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Harpreet Singh Sawhney, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system that tracks one or more moving objects in a sequence of video images employs a dynamic layer representation to represent the objects that are being tracked. The system concurrently estimates three components of the dynamic layer representation—layer segmentation, motion, and appearance—over time in a maximum a posteriori (MAP) framework. In order to enforce a global shape constraint and to maintain the layer segmentation over time, the subject invention imposes a prior constraint on parametric segmentation. In addition, the system uses a generalized Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm to compute an optimal solution. The system uses an object state that consists of representations of motion, appearance and ownership masks. The system applies a constant appearance model across multiple images in the video stream.
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