TRACKING OF COMPLEX DRIVING MANEUVERS IN TRAFFIC IMAGE SEQUENCES

It has been shown in previous publications (Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Computer Vision 1996 (ECCV '96), 14-18 April 19 96, Cambridge, UK, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1065 (Vol. II), S pringer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1996, pp. 388-399, pp. 485-494) th at model-based tracking of partially occluded vehicles in image sequen ces can be significantly improved by incorporating optical flow measur ements on the one hand and by explicitly modelling occlusions on the o ther hand. In this contribution, we slightly extend the first approach and combine it with the second in order to demonstrate that consequen t exploitation of model knowledge will lead to robust tracking results even for complex driving manoeuvres, significant occlusions, low cont rast and small vehicle images. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All righ ts reserved.