Online Training Object Tracking via Global Pattern Learning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current object pose estimation methods for tracking objects in videos are not 100% accurate due to issues like occlusion and fast movement, leading to errors in target identification and tracking.

Innovation Solution

An online training model is used to learn global patterns of targets, incorporating a classifier for ID classification, and generates training data accumulated over time, employing both motion and appearance factors for accurate tracking.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If current object pose estimation methods are used for tracking objects in videos, then tracking can be performed, but accuracy is not 100% due to occlusion and fast movement causing errors in target identification

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetracking accuracyVSAvoidtarget identification reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by accumulating training data over time and training the neural network model in advance with diverse samples including occluded and fast-moving targets. This preliminary training enables the model to maintain high accuracy and reliability during actual tracking operations despite challenging conditions like occlusion and fast movement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by continuously accumulating training data from tracking results and using this data to retrain and improve the neural network model. The model learns from past tracking errors and successes, adjusting its parameters to reduce future errors in target identification and tracking accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If online training model with classifier is used to learn global patterns and generate accumulated training data, then accuracy and efficiency of object tracking is enhanced, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveobject tracking accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs dynamic characteristics by implementing an online training model that continuously adapts and updates the neural network parameters based on accumulated training data. The model dynamically adjusts its classification capabilities and global pattern recognition through incremental learning, improving tracking accuracy while managing complexity through adaptive rather than static processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system utilizes parameter changes by modifying the neural network model parameters through online training with accumulated data. The classifier parameters and network weights are continuously adjusted based on new training samples, enabling the system to improve accuracy by learning from diverse patterns while managing complexity through parameter optimization rather than structural expansion.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11972578B2Method and system for object tracking using online training
Publication Date: 2024.04.30 NAVER CORP
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AI summary

A method and system for tracking an object in an input video using online training includes a step for training a classifier model by using global pattern matching, and a step for classifying and tracking each target through online training including the classifier model.