Interest Point Based Tracking

Abstract

This paper deals with a novel method for object tracking. In the first step interest points are detected and feature descriptors around them are calculated. Sets of known points are created, allowing tracking based on point matching. The set representation is updated online at every tracking step. Our method uses one-shot learning with the first frame, so no offline and no supervised learning is required. Following an object recognition based approach there is no need for a background model or motion model, allowing tracking of abrupt motion and with non-stationary cameras. We compare our method to Mean Shift and Tracking via Online Boosting, showing the benefits of our approach.