@article {13109,
	title = {Probabilistic fusion-based parameter estimation for visual tracking},
	journal = {Computer Vision and Image Understanding},
	volume = {113},
	year = {2009},
	month = {2009/04//},
	pages = {435 - 445},
	abstract = {In object tracking, visual features may not be discriminative enough to estimate high dimensional motion parameters accurately, and complex motion estimation is computationally expensive due to a large search space. To tackle these problems, a reasonable strategy is to track small components within the target independently in lower dimensional motion parameter spaces (e.g., translation only) and then estimate the overall high dimensional motion (e.g., translation, scale and rotation) by statistically integrating the individual tracking results. Although tracking each component in a lower dimensional space is more reliable and faster, it is not trivial to combine the local motion information and estimate global parameters in a robust way because the individual component motions are frequently inconsistent. We propose a robust fusion algorithm to estimate the complex motion parameters using variable-bandwidth mean-shift. By employing correlation-based uncertainty modeling and fusion of individual components, the motion parameter that is robust to outliers can be detected with variable-bandwidth density-based fusion (VBDF) algorithm. In addition, we describe a method to update target appearance model for each component adaptively based on the component motion consistency. We present various tracking results and compare the performance of our algorithm with others using real video sequences.},
	keywords = {Component-based tracking, Density-based fusion, Mean-shift, visual tracking},
	isbn = {1077-3142},
	doi = {10.1016/j.cviu.2008.11.003},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077314208001872},
	author = {Han,Bohyung and Davis, Larry S.}
}
@conference {13196,
	title = {Efficient mean-shift tracking via a new similarity measure},
	booktitle = {Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2005. CVPR 2005. IEEE Computer Society Conference on},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2005},
	month = {2005/06//},
	pages = {176 - 183 vol. 1 - 176 - 183 vol. 1},
	abstract = {The mean shift algorithm has achieved considerable success in object tracking due to its simplicity and robustness. It finds local minima of a similarity measure between the color histograms or kernel density estimates of the model and target image. The most typically used similarity measures are the Bhattacharyya coefficient or the Kullback-Leibler divergence. In practice, these approaches face three difficulties. First, the spatial information of the target is lost when the color histogram is employed, which precludes the application of more elaborate motion models. Second, the classical similarity measures are not very discriminative. Third, the sample-based classical similarity measures require a calculation that is quadratic in the number of samples, making real-time performance difficult. To deal with these difficulties we propose a new, simple-to-compute and more discriminative similarity measure in spatial-feature spaces. The new similarity measure allows the mean shift algorithm to track more general motion models in an integrated way. To reduce the complexity of the computation to linear order we employ the recently proposed improved fast Gauss transform. This leads to a very efficient and robust nonparametric spatial-feature tracking algorithm. The algorithm is tested on several image sequences and shown to achieve robust and reliable frame-rate tracking.},
	keywords = {algorithm;, analysis;, Bhattacharyya, coefficient;, Color, colour, density, divergence;, estimates;, extraction;, fast, feature, frame-rate, Gauss, Gaussian, histograms;, image, Kernel, Kullback-Leibler, matching;, Mean-shift, measures;, nonparametric, processes;, sample-based, sequences;, similarity, spaces;, spatial-feature, tracking, tracking;, transform;},
	doi = {10.1109/CVPR.2005.139},
	author = {Yang,Changjiang and Duraiswami, Ramani and Davis, Larry S.}
}
@conference {13214,
	title = {Object tracking by adaptive feature extraction},
	booktitle = {Image Processing, 2004. ICIP {\textquoteright}04. 2004 International Conference on},
	volume = {3},
	year = {2004},
	month = {2004/10//},
	pages = {1501 - 1504 Vol. 3 - 1501 - 1504 Vol. 3},
	abstract = {Tracking objects in the high-dimensional feature space is not only computationally expensive but also functionally inefficient. Selecting a low-dimensional discriminative feature set is a critical step to improve tracker performance. A good feature set for tracking can differ from frame to frame due to the changes in the background against the tracked object, and due to an on-line algorithm that adaptively determines a advantageous distinctive feature set. In this paper, multiple heterogeneous features are assembled, and likelihood images are constructed for various subspaces of the combined feature space. Then, the most discriminative feature is extracted by principal component analysis (PCA) based on those likelihood images. This idea is applied to the mean-shift tracking algorithm [D. Comaniciu et al., June 2000], and we demonstrate its effectiveness through various experiments.},
	keywords = {adaptive, algorithm;, analysis;, colour, component, extraction;, feature, feature;, heterogeneous, image, image;, likelihood, Mean-shift, object, online, principal, tracking, tracking;},
	doi = {10.1109/ICIP.2004.1421349},
	author = {Han,Bohyung and Davis, Larry S.}
}
@conference {13239,
	title = {Mean-shift analysis using quasiNewton methods},
	booktitle = {Image Processing, 2003. ICIP 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2003},
	month = {2003/09//},
	pages = {II - 447-50 vol.3 - II - 447-50 vol.3},
	abstract = {Mean-shift analysis is a general nonparametric clustering technique based on density estimation for the analysis of complex feature spaces. The algorithm consists of a simple iterative procedure that shifts each of the feature points to the nearest stationary point along the gradient directions of the estimated density function. It has been successfully applied to many applications such as segmentation and tracking. However, despite its promising performance, there are applications for which the algorithm converges too slowly to be practical. We propose and implement an improved version of the mean-shift algorithm using quasiNewton methods to achieve higher convergence rates. Another benefit of our algorithm is its ability to achieve clustering even for very complex and irregular feature-space topography. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our algorithm.},
	keywords = {analysis;, classification;, clustering, clustering;, Convergence, density, estimation;, feature-space, image, irregular, iterative, Mean-shift, method;, methods;, Newton, nonparametric, pattern, procedure;, quasiNewton, rates;, segmentation;, technique;, topography;},
	doi = {10.1109/ICIP.2003.1246713},
	author = {Yang,C. and Duraiswami, Ramani and DeMenthon,D. and Davis, Larry S.}
}
