Reliably tracking key points and textured patches from frame to frame is the basic requirement for many bottom-up computer vision algorithms. The problem of selecting the features that can be tracked well is addressed here. The Lucas-Kanade tracking procedure is commonly used. We propose a method to estimate the size of the tracking procedure convergence region for each feature. The features that have a wider convergence region around them should be tracked better by the tracker. The size of the convergence region as a new feature goodness measure is compared with the widely accepted Shi-Tomasi feature selection criteria.
Citation:
Zoran Zivkovic, Ferdinand van der Heijden, "Better Features to Track by Estimating the Tracking Convergence Region," icpr, vol. 2, pp.20635, 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02) - Volume 2, 2002