Live object monitoring, detection and tracking using mean shift and particle filters

This paper presents efficient object tracking in video sequences using multiple features by embedding mean shift into particle filters. When clutter background and occlusions are present. Particle filtering is used because it is very robust and performs well for non-linear and non-Gaussian dynamic state estimation problems. The image features, such as shape, texture, color, contours, and random motion appearance can be used to track the moving object(s) in videos. We proposed a smart video surveillance system with real-time as well as offline stored video database for moving object detection, classification and tracking capabilities. The graphical user interface of the proposed system using MATLAB 2012b is implemented that operates on both color and gray scale video images from a stationary camera. In this method, we proposed real time moving object detection and tracking system using static webcam that can processes 800*600, 640*480, and 320*240 resolution video sequences for capturing live scene as well as stored database of segmented videos. Issues related with object detection and tracking is jointly employed using mean shift and particle filters. Tracker will estimate the dynamic shape and random appearance of objects. Tracking requires location and shape of object in every segmented frame. Rectangular bounding box is used to improve the estimate of its shape and appearance. Target object may experience partial occlusions, intersection with other objects with similar color distributions, abrupt motion speed changes, and cluttered background. Test result shows improvement in terms of robustness, tracking drifts, accuracy of tracked bounding box to occlusions.