{"title":"Finding essential features for tracking starfish in a video sequence","authors":"V. Gesù, F. Isgrò, D. Tegolo, E. Trucco","doi":"10.1109/ICIAP.2003.1234100","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The paper introduces a software system for detecting and tracking starfish in an underwater video sequence. The target of such a system is to help biologists in giving an estimate of the number of starfish present in a particular area of the sea-bottom. The nature of the input images is characterised by a low signal/noise ratio and by the presence of noisy background represented by pebbles; this makes the detection a non-trivial task. The procedure we use is a chain of several steps that starts from the extraction of the area of interest and ends with a classifier and a tracker providing the necessary information for counting the starfish present in the scene.","PeriodicalId":218076,"journal":{"name":"12th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, 2003.Proceedings.","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2003-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"15","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"12th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, 2003.Proceedings.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIAP.2003.1234100","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The paper introduces a software system for detecting and tracking starfish in an underwater video sequence. The target of such a system is to help biologists in giving an estimate of the number of starfish present in a particular area of the sea-bottom. The nature of the input images is characterised by a low signal/noise ratio and by the presence of noisy background represented by pebbles; this makes the detection a non-trivial task. The procedure we use is a chain of several steps that starts from the extraction of the area of interest and ends with a classifier and a tracker providing the necessary information for counting the starfish present in the scene.