Bo Hyung Han

We propose an extremely simple but effective regularization technique of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), referred to as BranchOut, for online ensemble tracking. Our algorithm employs a CNN for target representation, which has a common convolutional layers but has multiple branches of fully connected layers. For better regularization, a subset of branches in the CNN are selected randomly for online learning whenever target appearance models need to be updated. Each branch may have a differe

Visual features are commonly modeled with probability density functions in computer vision problems, but current methods such as a mixture of Gaussians and kernel density estimation suffer from either the lack of flexibility, by fixing or limiting the number of Gaussian components in the mixture, or large memory requirement, by maintaining a non-parametric representation of the density. These problems are aggravated in real-time computer vision applications since density functions are required t

Background modeling and subtraction is a natural technique for object detection in videos captured by a static camera, and also a critical preprocessing step in various high-level computer vision applications. However, there have not been many studies concerning useful features and binary segmentation algorithms for this problem. We propose a pixelwise background modeling and subtraction technique using multiple features, where generative and discriminative techniques are combined for classifica

Object tracking is a challenging problem in real-time computer vision due to variations of lighting condition, pose, scale, and view-point over time. However, it is exceptionally difficult to model appearance with respect to all of those variations in advance; instead, on-line update algorithms are employed to adapt to these changes. We present a new on-line appearance modeling technique which is based on sequential density approximation. This technique provides accurate and compact representati

Statistical density estimation techniques are used in many computer vision applications such as object tracking, background subtraction, motion estimation and segmentation. The particle filter (condensation) algorithm provides a general framework for estimating the probability density functions (pdf) of general non-linear and non-Gaussian systems. However, since this algorithm is based on a Monte Carlo approach, where the density is represented by a set of random samples, the number of samples i

Particle filtering provides a general framework for propagating probability density functions in nonlinear and non-Gaussian systems. However, the algorithm is based on a Monte Carlo approach and sampling is a problematic issue, especially for high dimensional problems. This paper presents a new kernel-based Bayesian filtering framework, which adopts an analytic approach to better approximate and propagate density functions. In this framework, the techniques of density interpolation and density a

Particle filtering is frequently used for visual tracking problems since it provides a general framework for estimating and propagating probability density functions for nonlinear and non-Gaussian dynamic systems. However, this algorithm is based on a Monte Carlo approach and the cost of sampling and measurement is a problematic issue, especially for high-dimensional problems. We describe an alternative to the classical particle filter in which the underlying density function has an analytic rep

In automatic video summarization, visual summary is constructed typically based on the analysis of low-level features with little consideration of video semantics. However, the contextual and semantic information of a video is marginally related to low-level features in practice although they are useful to compute visual similarity between frames. Therefore, we propose a novel video summarization technique, where the semantically important information is extracted from a set of keyframes given b

Tracking objects in the high-dimensional feature space is not only computationally expensive but also functionally inefficient. Selecting a low-dimensional discriminative feature set is a critical step to improve tracker performance. A good feature set for tracking can differ from frame to frame due to the changes in the background against the tracked object, and due to an on-line algorithm that adaptively determines a advantageous distinctive feature set. In this paper, multiple heterogeneous f

Even though sensor fusion techniques based on particle filters have been applied to object tracking, their implementations have been limited to combining measurements from multiple sensors by the simple product of individual likelihoods. Therefore, the number of observations is increased as many times as the number of sensors, and the combined observation may become unreliable through blind integration of sensor observations—especially if some sensors are too noisy and non-discriminative. We des

This paper describes contributions to two problems related to visual tracking: control model design and observation process design. We describe the use of kernel-based Bayesian filtering for the tracking control procedure, and feature-based tracking to improve the observation process of tracking. In the kernelbased Bayesian filtering framework, the analytical representation of density functions by density interpolation and density approximation for the likelihood and the posterior contributes to