International Journal of Information Engineering and Electronic Business (IJIEEB)
IJIEEB Vol. 5, No. 5, 8 Nov. 2013
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Performance Comparison of Kalman Filter and Mean Shift Algorithm for Object Tracking
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Author(s)
Ravi Kumar Jatoth
1,*
Sampad Shubhra
1
Ejaz Ali
1
Index Terms
Object tracking, kalman filter, mean shift algorithm, state space representation
Abstract
Object tracking is one of the important tasks in the field of computer vision. Some of the areas which need Visual object tracking are surveillance, automated video analysis, etc. Mean shift algorithm is one of the popular techniques for this task and is advantageous when compared to some of the other tracking methods. But this method would not be appropriate in the case of large target appearance changes and occlusion. In addition, this method fails when the object is under the action of non-linear forces like that of the gravity e.g. a ball falling under the action of gravity. Another popular method used for tracking is the one that uses Kalman filter, with measurements (often noisy) of position of object to be tracked as input to it. This paper is based on a simulative comparison of both of these algorithms which will give a proper outline of which method will be more appropriate for object tracking, given the nature of motion of object and type of surroundings. Observations based on these methods are present in the literature but there is no evidence based on implementation of these algorithms that shows a quantitative comparison of the said algorithms.
Cite This Paper
Ravi Kumar Jatoth, Sampad Shubhra, Ejaz Ali, "Performance Comparison of Kalman Filter and Mean Shift Algorithm for Object Tracking", International Journal of Information Engineering and Electronic Business(IJIEEB), vol.5, no.5, pp.17-24, 2013. DOI:10.5815/ijieeb.2013.05.03
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