Audio-visual tracking by density approximation in a sequential Bayesian filtering framework
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Author(s)
Gebru, ID
Evers, C
Naylor, PA
Horaud, R
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
This paper proposes a novel audio-visual tracking approach that exploits constructively audio and visual modalities in order to estimate trajectories of multiple people in a joint state space. The tracking problem is modeled using a sequential Bayesian filtering framework. Within this framework, we propose to represent the posterior density with a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). To ensure that a GMM representation can be retained sequentially over time, the predictive density is approximated by a GMM using the Unscented Transform. While a density interpolation technique is introduced to obtain a continuous representation of the observation likelihood, which is also a GMM. Furthermore, to prevent the number of mixtures from growing exponentially over time, a density approximation based on the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm is applied, resulting in a compact GMM representation of the posterior density. Recordings using a camcorder and microphone array are used to evaluate the proposed approach, demonstrating significant improvements in tracking performance of the proposed audio-visual approach compared to two benchmark visual trackers.
Date Acceptance
2017-01-24
Citation
Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, pp.71-75
ISBN
9781509059256
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
71
End Page
75
Journal / Book Title
Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Grant Number
609465
Source
HSCMA 2017
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Telecommunications
Engineering
Motion estimation
Speech processing
Machine vision
Bayes methods
Audio-visual systems
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2017-03-01
Finish Date
2017-03-03
Coverage Spatial
San Francisco
Date Publish Online
2017-04-13