System and method for visually tracking occluded objects in real time

摘要

The present invention is embodied in a system and method for digitally tracking objects in real time. The present invention visually tracks three-dimensional (3-D) objects in dense disparity maps in real time. Tracking of the human body is achieved by digitally segmenting and modeling different body parts using statistical models defined by multiple size parameters, position and orientation. In addition, the present invention is embodied in a system and method for recognizing mutual occlusions of body parts and filling in data for the occluded parts while tracking a human body. The body parts are preferably tracked from frame to frame in image sequences as an articulated structure in which the body parts are connected at the joints instead of as individual objects moving and changing shape and orientation freely.