摘要 |
PURPOSE: To provide an improved (object) tracking method which is intensified against an obstruction from an object to be tracked. CONSTITUTION: When a method for tracking a moving object in an object is applied to the human face of video telephone, the method includes a process for forming the initial template of the face, a process Z for forming the boarder line of the face, a process F for dividing the template into a plurality of sub- templates, a process F for finding the matching between the next frame and the template by searching the next frame, a process H for finding the matching between the next frame and each sub-template by searching the next frame, a process for deciding the displacement of the sub-templates against the template, a process L for deciding an affin transformation coefficient, and a process for supplying an updated template and an updated mask. |