ICCV 2001
International Conference on Computing Vision
Vancouver, Canada,
July 9- July 12 2001

 
 
 

Reducing Drift in Parametric Motion Tracking
A. Rahimi, L.P. Morency, T. Darrell
Vision Interface Group
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
200 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
rahimi@media.mit.edu,{lmorency, trevor}@ai.mit.edu

 
 
 
 
ABSTRACT
 
     
 
We develop a class of differential motion trackers that automatically stabilize when in finite domains. Most differential trackers compute motion only relative to one previous frame, accumulating errors indefinitely. We estimate pose changes between a set of past frames, and develop a probabilistic framework for integrating those estimates. We use an approximation to the posterior distribution of pose changes as an uncertainty model for parametric motion in order to help arbitrate the use of multiple base frames. We demonstrate this framework on a simple 2D translational tracker and a 3D, 6-degree of freedom tracker.