In this work, a new method is proposed that can be used for area tracking. This method is based on the Complex Discrete Wavelet Transform (CDWT) developed by Magarey and Kingsbury. The CDWT has its advantages over the traditional Discrete Wavelet Transform such as approximate shift invariance, improved directional selectivity, and robustness to noise and illumination changes.
The proposed method is a generalization of the CDWT based motion estimation method developed by Magarey and Kingsbury. The Complex Wavelet Tracker extends the original method to estimate the true motion of regions according to a parametric motion model. In this way, rotation, scaling, and shear type of motions can be handled in addition to pure translation.
Simulations have been performed on the proposed method including both quantitative and qualitative tests. Quantitative tests are performed on synthetically created test sequences and results have been compared to true data. The performance is compared with intensity-based methods. Qualitative tests are performed on real sequences and evaluations are presented empirically. The results are compared with intensity-based methods.
It is observed that the proposed method is very accurate in handling affine deformations for long term sequences and is robust to different target signatures and illumination changes. The accuracy of the proposed method is compatible with intensity-based methods. In addition to this, it can handle a wider range of cases and is robust to illuminaton changes compared to intensity-based methods.
The method can be implemented in real-time and could be a powerful replacement of current area trackers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12608643/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 July 2007 |
| Creators | Yilmaz, Sener |
| Contributors | Severcan, Mete |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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