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Improved object tracking via joint color-LPQ texture histogram based mean shift algorithm

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In this paper, a new robust mean shift tracker is proposed by utilizing the joint color and texture histogram. The contribution of our work is to take local phase quantization (LPQ) operator advantage of texture features representation, and to combine it with a color histogram mean shift tracking algorithm. The LPQ technique can be applied to obtain the texture features which represent the object. In texture classification, The LPQ operator is much robust to blur than the well-known local binary pattern operator (LBP). Compared with traditional color histogram mean shift algorithm which considers only color statistical information of the object, the joint color-LPQ texture histogram is more robust and overcome some difficulties of the traditional color histogram mean shift algorithm. Comparative experimental results on numerous challenging image sequences show that the proposed algorithm obtains considerably better performance than several state-of-the-art methods, especially traditional mean shift tracker. The algorithm is evaluated by numerical parameters: the center location and the average overlap, it proved the tracking robustness in presence of similar target appearance and background, motion blurring.

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  1. Energy Systems Modeling Laboratory, University of Biskra, Biskra, Algeria

    Saadia Medouakh & Mohamed Boumehraz

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Biskra, Biskra, Algeria

    Nadjiba Terki

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Medouakh, S., Boumehraz, M. & Terki, N. Improved object tracking via joint color-LPQ texture histogram based mean shift algorithm. SIViP 12, 583–590 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-017-1196-2

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