Tracking Blurred Object with Data-Driven Tracker

Abstract

Motion blur is very common in the low quality of image sequences and videos captured by low speed of cameras. Object tracking without accounting for the motion blur would easily fail in these kinds of videos. We propose a new data-driven tracker in the particle filter framework to address this problem without deblurring the image sequences. The motion blur is detected by exploring the property of the blurred input image through Fourier analysis. The appearance model is integrated with a set of motion blur kernels which could reflect different blur effects in real scenes. The motion model is improved to be more robust to sudden motion of the target object. To evaluate the proposed algorithm, several challenging videos with significant motion blur are used in the experiments. The experimental results demonstrate the robustness and accuracy of our algorithm.