A Sparse Gaussian Approach to Region-Based 6DoF Object Tracking

Manuel Stoiber, Martin Pfanne, Klaus H. Strobl, Rudolph Triebel, Alin Albu-Schäffer

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Abstract

We propose a novel, highly efficient sparse approach to region-based 6DoF object tracking that requires only a monocular RGB camera and the 3D object model. The key contribution of our work is a probabilistic model that considers image information sparsely along correspondence lines. For the implementation, we provide a highly efficient discrete scale-space formulation. In addition, we derive a novel mathematical proof that shows that our proposed likelihood function follows a Gaussian distribution. Based on this information, we develop robust approximations for the derivatives of the log-likelihood that are used in a regularized Newton optimization. In multiple experiments, we show that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art region-based methods in terms of tracking success while being about one order of magnitude faster. The source code of our tracker is publicly available (https://github.com/DLR-RM/RBGT ).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision – ACCV 2020 - 15th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 2020, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsHiroshi Ishikawa, Cheng-Lin Liu, Tomas Pajdla, Jianbo Shi
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages666-682
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783030695316
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event15th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 30 Nov 20204 Dec 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12623 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2020
CityVirtual, Online
Period30/11/204/12/20

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