Graph-based object tracking

Abstract

Attribute graphs offer a compact representation of 2D or 3D images, as each node represents a region with its attributes and the edges convey the neighborhood relations between adjacent regions. Such graphs may be used in the analysis of video sequences and the tracking of objects of interest. Each image of a sequence is segmented and represented as a a region adjacency graph. Object tracking becomes a particular graph-matching problem, in which the nodes representing the same object are to be matched. The intrinsic complexity of graph matching is greatly reduced by coupling it with the segmentation. An attractive feature of our approach is its ability to keep track of occluded objects. Results on real sequences show the potential of this approach.