Better Dense Trajectories by Motion in Videos

IEEE Trans Cybern. 2019 Jan;49(1):159-170. doi: 10.1109/TCYB.2017.2769097. Epub 2017 Nov 28.

Abstract

Currently, the most widely used point trajectories generation methods estimate the trajectories from the dense optical flow, by using a consistency check strategy to detect the occluded regions. However, these methods will miss some important trajectories, thus resulting in breaking smooth areas without any structure especially around the motion boundaries (MBs). We suggest exploring MBs in video to generate more accurate dense point trajectories. Estimating MBs from the video improves the point trajectory accuracy of the discontinuity or occluded areas. Then, we obtain trajectories by tracking the initial feature points through all frames. The experimental results demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on the challenging benchmark.