Object Tracking and Recognition Based on Reliability Assessment of Learning in Mobile Environments

• Published in: Wireless personal communications 2017-05, Vol.94 (2), p.267-282
• Main Authors: Kim, Youngseop, Han, Woori, Lee, Yong-Hwan, Kim, Cheong Ghil, Kim, Kuinam J.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Communications Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Engineering; Feature extraction; Histograms; Learning; Modules; Networks; Object recognition; Optical flow (image analysis); Reliability analysis; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Tracking
• ISSN: 0929-6212; 1572-834X
• DOI: 10.1007/s11277-016-3292-y

This paper proposes a novel object tracking and recognition system according to reliability assessment of learning in mobile environments. The proposed method is based on marker-less tracking, and the proposed system is composed of two main modules (detection and tracking). The detection module identifies an object to be matched on the current frame corresponding to the database, and then generates the standard object information that has the best reliability of learning. This module is able to re-detect the object when the object is missing in the frame. The tracking module traces the object of interest based on the extracted object information using feature points, descriptors, sub-window of object, and its histogram. Additionally, this module tries to select the reliable object between tracked object by Camshift and tracked object by Optical flow. Experimental results show that the proposed method is more robust than the traditional methods, and that it is able to recognize and track objects of interest with reliability assessment of learning for use with mobile environments.