Object Classification and Tracking in Real Time

Abstract

Algorithms for automatic processing of visual data have been a topic of interest since the last few decades. Object tracking and classification methods are highly demanding in vehicle traffic control systems, surveillance systems for detecting unauthorized movement of vehicle and human, mobile robot applications, animal tracking, etc. There are still many challenging issues while dealing with dynamic background, occlusion, etc. in real time. This chapter presents an overview of various existing techniques for object detection, classification and tracking. As the most important requirements of tracking and classification algorithms are feature extraction and selection, different feature types are also included.