학술논문

Extended Target Tracking Utilizing Machine-Learning Software–With Applications to Animal Classification
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Signal Processing Letters IEEE Signal Process. Lett. Signal Processing Letters, IEEE. 31:376-380 2024
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Signal processing algorithms
Classification algorithms
Cameras
Target tracking
Filtering algorithms
Standards
Loss measurement
Multi-object tracking
object detection
environmental monitoring
deep learning
Kalman filters
Language
ISSN
1070-9908
1558-2361
Abstract
This letter considers the problem of detecting and tracking objects in a sequence of images. The problem is formulated in a filtering framework, using the output of object-detection algorithms as measurements. An extension to the filtering formulation is proposed that incorporates class information from the previous frame to robustify the classification. Further, the properties of the object-detection algorithm are exploited to quantify the uncertainty of the bounding box detection in each frame. The complete filtering method is evaluated on camera trap images of the four large Swedish carnivores, bear, lynx, wolf, and wolverine. The experiments show that the class tracking formulation leads to a more robust classification.