Improving Feature Tracking by Robust Points of interest Selection

Chafik KERMAD and Christophe COLLEWET

To appear at Vision, Modelling and Visualization (VMV01), Stuttgart, Germany, November 21 - 23, 2001


Abstract

This paper deals with robust feature tracking. The aim is to track point features in a sequence of images and to identify unreliable features. We extend the well-known Shi-Tomasi-Kanade tracker \cite{[ST94]} by introducing an automatic scheme for rejecting spurious features in the first image. We employ a simple and efficient rejection rule based on gray levels co-occurence entropy and show that its empericaly assumptions are satisfied in the feature tracking scenario. Experiments with real and synthetic images confirm that our algorithm makes good features tracking. We illustrate quantitatively the benefits introduced by the developped algorithm.


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