November 4, 2009 14:55 WSPC/115-IJPRAI SPI-J068 00762
International Journal of Pattern Recognition
and Artificial Intelligence
Vol. 23, No. 7 (2009) 1245–1263
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World Scientific Publishing Company
ROBUST OBJECT TRACKING USING JOINT
COLOR-TEXTURE HISTOGRAM
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JIFENG NING
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College of Information Engineering
Northwest A&F University
Yangling, Shaanxi, P. R. China
jf
ning@sina.com
LEI ZHANG
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and DAVID ZHANG
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Biometrics Research Center
Department of Computing
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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cslzhang@comp.polyu.edu.hk
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csdzhang@comp.polyu.edu.hk
CHENGKE WU
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State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Networks
Xidian University, Xi’an, P. R. China
ckwu@xidian.edu.cn
A novel object tracking algorithm is presented in this paper by using the joint color-
texture histogram to represent a target and then applying it to the mean shift frame-
work. Apart from the conventional color histogram features, the texture features of
the object are also extracted by using the local binary pattern (LBP) technique to
represent the object. The major uniform LBP patterns are exploited to form a mask
for joint color-texture feature selection. Compared with the traditional color histogram
based algorithms that use the whole target region for tracking, the proposed algorithm
extracts effectively the edge and corner features in the target region, which characterize
better and represent more robustly the target. The experimental results validate that
the proposed method improves greatly the tracking accuracy and efficiency with fewer
mean shift iterations than standard mean shift tracking. It can robustly track the target
under complex scenes, such as similar target and background appearance, on which the
traditional color based schemes may fail to track.
Keywords: Object tracking; mean shift; local binary pattern; color histogram.
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This work was supported by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Internal Grant (A-SA08),
and the National Science Foundation Council of China under Grants 60532060 and 60775020
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