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We propose a robust and efficient algorithm for curve tracking in a sequence of binary images. First it verifies the presence of a curve by votes, whose values indicate the number of the points on the curve, thus being able to robustly detect curves against outlier and occlusion. Furthermore, we introduce a procedure for preventing redundant verification by determining equivalence curves in the digital space to reduce the time complexity. Second it propagates the distribution which represents the presence of the curve to the successive image of a given sequence. This temporal propagation enables to focus on the potential region where the curves detected at time t – 1 are likely to appear at time t. As a result, the time complexity does not depend on the dimension of the curve to be detected. To evaluate the performance, we use three noisy image sequences, consisting of 90 frames with 320 × 240 pixels. The results shows that the algorithm successfully tracks the target even in noisy or cluttered binary images.
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Kawamoto, K., Hirota, K. (2004). Curve Tracking by Hypothesis Propagation and Voting-Based Verification. In: Klette, R., Žunić, J. (eds) Combinatorial Image Analysis. IWCIA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3322. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30503-3_12
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