移動物體的追蹤在電腦視覺的應用已經是個愈趨重要的研究主題。多數的論文採用線性區塊映對法或卡門濾波器等以預測為主的方法來對物體做追蹤。在我們的論文中提出一個以物體特徵為依據的有效追蹤方法。我們的方法探討兩個重要的移動物件：車輛及行人。為了得到較正確的物件特徵值，物體的外形首先必須被準確的攫取出來，有三個步驟被提出來偵測物體的外形。五個可供判別物件的分類特徵也被設計出來，我們將在內容中詳細描述出這五種特徵的分析結果。我們設計一個倒傳遞類神經網路來將特徵做分類，並根據分類結果設計一個追蹤法則。我們會用一連串的影像序列來驗證我們的實驗結果。在我們的實驗中總共使用了1343個物體來做有效的物件分類，其中包括車輛有469個，行人有874個。而在物件的追蹤上，我們用實際環境的影像序列來做追蹤以呈現實驗的結果。

Moving object tracking has been an important research topic in numerous computer vision applications. Most papers adopt a prediction-based approach that uses linear block matching and Kalman filter. In this paper, an effective tracking approach using object’s features is proposed. Two important kinds of moving objects: pedestrian and vehicles, are studied in our approach. Exact object’s shape is extracted first in order to obtain accurate features of the object. Three preprocessing steps are proposed to detect the exact object’s shape. Five discriminate features are then extracted for each object. Detail analysis of the five features for the classification of object is described. A tracking scheme by classifying the features with a back-propagation neural network is invented. The proposed approach is verified through several image sequences. 1343 objects, including 469 vehicles and 874 pedestrians, can be effectively tracked in our experiments.

摘要 I
ABSTRACT II
誌謝 III
目錄 IV
表格目錄 VI
圖目錄 VII
第一章 緒論 1
1.1 研究動機 1
1.2 相關研究 2
1.3 系統架構 4
1.4 論文架構 8
第二章　　物體偵測 9
2.1 差異偵測 9
2.2 區塊增強 17
2.3 物體攫取 21
第三章　　物體表示法 26
3.1 分散度(Dispersedness) 27
3.2 變異係數(Coefficient of Variation，CV) 29
3.2.1. 中心點到輪廓的距離變異係數(CVdistance) 29
3.2.2. 紋理變異係數(CVtexture) 30
3.3 幾何比例 31
3.4 特徵分析 32
3.4.1. 相關性分析 33
3.4.2. 判別分析 34
第四章　　分類及追蹤 41
4.1 分類 41
4.2 追蹤 44
第五章　　實驗結果與討論 47
第六章　　結論及未來工作 55
參考文獻 57

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