Object tracking with occlusion handling using mean shift, Kalman filter and Edge Histogram

Abstract

This paper propose an algorithm that uses Mean Shift and Kalman Filter for object tracking. Also this method uses Edge Histogram for occlusion handling. Firstly, we use Mean Shift algorithm to obtain center of desired object. But the robust of tracking is not very well, so we use Kalman Filter to improve the effect of tracking. Bhattacharyya coefficient and Edge Histogram are used for finding out both partial and full occlusions. With this approach we can track the object more accurately. The results prove that the robust of tracking is very well.