Active Contours Guided By Optical Flow
Cheng Yi-min · Journal of Circuits and Systems · 2003
A method for segmentation and tracking of moving object in image sequences is presented. The active contour model is a common method for tracking moving objects. But it is sensitive to the initial contour and difficult to track fast moving objects. The concept of Image Statistical Energy and Optical flow are employed to dissolve the problem of tracking fast moving objects. The algorithm was tested on playing badminton sequences. The contour successfully was tracked as boundaries of sportsman.