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Color histograms are widely used for visual tracking due to their robustness against object deformations. However, traditional histogram representation often suffers from problems of partial occlusion, background cluttering and other appearance corruptions. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic index histogram to improve the discriminative power of the histogram representation. With this modeling, an input frame is translated into an index map whose entries indicate indexes to a separate bin. Based on the index map, we introduce spatial information and the bin-ratio dissimilarity in histogram comparison. The proposed probabilistic indexing technique, together with the two robust measurements, greatly increases the discriminative power of the histogram representation. Both qualitative and quantitative evaluations show the robustness of the proposed approach against partial occlusion, noisy and clutter background.
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Li, W., Zhang, X., Xie, N., Hu, W., Luo, W., Ling, H. (2011). Probabilistic Index Histogram for Robust Object Tracking. In: Koch, R., Huang, F. (eds) Computer Vision – ACCV 2010 Workshops. ACCV 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6468. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22822-3_19
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