@conference {12608,
	title = {Shape-Regulated Particle Filtering for Tracking Non-Rigid Objects},
	booktitle = {Image Processing, 2006 IEEE International Conference on},
	year = {2006},
	month = {2006/10//},
	pages = {2813 - 2816},
	abstract = {This paper presents an active contour based algorithm for tracking non-rigid objects in heavily cluttered scenes. We decompose the non-rigid contour tracking problem into three subproblems: 2D motion estimation, deformation detection, and shape regulation. First, we employ a particle filter to estimate the affine transform parameters between successive frames. Second, by using a dynamic object model, we generate a probabilistic map of deformation to reshape its contour. Finally, we project the updated model onto a trained shape subspace to constrain deformations to be within possible object appearances. Our experiments show that the proposed algorithm significantly improves the performance of the tracker},
	keywords = {(numerical, 2D, algorithm;affine, based, contour, detection;dynamic, detection;motion, detection;parameter, estimation;active, estimation;object, estimation;particle, Filtering, filtering;probabilistic, filters;, map;shape-regulation;affine, methods);tracking, model;nonrigid, MOTION, object, scenes;deformation, tracking;parameter, transform;cluttered, transforms;clutter;edge},
	doi = {10.1109/ICIP.2006.312993},
	author = {Jie Shao and Chellapa, Rama and Porikli, F.}
}
