Robust underwater object tracking using color and motion cues

Authors

  • Karl Bryan A. Lagman ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
  • Maricor N. Soriano ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

We present a novel approach to tracking objects underwater using color and motion cues. We use the "sea locus" technique and optical flow to track a yellow transect tape in underwater video. The technique is robust in that it uses adaptive color cues when there is sufficient color information and switches to motion cues when color is absent. The technique is successfully demonstrated in controlled environment (swimming pool) and in real environment (coral reef video transect).

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Article ID

SPP-2006-PB-03

Section

Poster Session PB

Published

2006-10-25

How to Cite

[1]
KBA Lagman and MN Soriano, Robust underwater object tracking using color and motion cues, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 24, SPP-2006-PB-03 (2006). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2006-PB-03.