Multi-feature tracking approach using dynamic fuzzy sets

Abstract

In this paper a new tracking approach based in fuzzy concepts is introduced. The aim of this methodology is to incorporate in the proposed model the uncertainty underlying any problem of feature tracking, through the use of fuzzy sets. Several dynamic fuzzy sets are constructed according both cinematic (movement model) and non cinematic properties (image gray levels) that distinguish the feature. Meanwhile cinematic related fuzzy sets model the feature movement characteristics, the non cinematic fuzzy sets model the feature visible image related properties. The tracking task is performed through the fusion of these fuzzy models by means of a fuzzy inference engine. This way feature detection and matching steps are performed exclusively using inference rules on fuzzy sets. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.