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Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 18, 2015
Applicant:

Thomson Licensing, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;

Inventors:

Francois Le Clerc, L'Hermitage, FR;

Philippe Robert, Rennes, FR;

Kiran Varanasi, Saarbruecken, DE;

Assignee:

Thomson Licensing DTV, Issy-les-Moulineaux, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/20 (2017.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/2046 (2013.01); G06K 9/00771 (2013.01); G06K 9/621 (2013.01); G06K 9/6202 (2013.01); G06T 7/251 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10052 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20121 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and an electronic device for object tracking in a sequence of light-field captures. A data acquisition unit acquires a sequence of light-field captures, wherein each light-field capture comprises a plurality of views. A feature determining unit determines features of an initial visual appearance model for an object of interest in a reference view of a first light-field capture. A feature matching unit matches the features in the reference view and in the further views of the first light-field capture. A feature discarding unit discards features that cannot be well matched in all views of the first light-field capture. An appearance model building unit builds an updated visual appearance model for the object of interest based on the remaining features. Finally, a movement tracking unit tracks the movement of the object of interest in the sequence of light-field captures using the visual appearance model.


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