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PREDATOR - Tracker that learns and improves

Zdenek Kalal · 892.9K views · 2011-01-01 · 4:12

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Overview

A demo of PREDATOR (TLD), a real-time object tracker that learns the appearance of its target and improves while it tracks. The technology was later developed commercially.

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HN found it a nifty demo and cites it as a primitive but effective learning tracker that predates modern deep-learning trackers.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2011–2023

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Computer vision, speech & NLPMachine learning & deep learning
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object trackingopentldonline learningreal-time visionpredator

What people said

tom_b · 2011-04 · Recommendation

My friend forwarded me the video demo link for this: [VIDEO] Very nifty. I'm looking forward to reading the machine learning code involved in this.

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rasz · 2023-08 · Reference

OK, 11 years ago then. This time with some very primitive ML: OpenTLD [VIDEO] Was good enough for commercialization [LINK] . I think their tech is powering this [LINK]

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jackcviers3 · 2021-07 · Reference

Incorrect. Recognition applications have been able to track objects across disparate frames of video even when obscures from camera view, for at least a decade now [1]. 1. [VIDEO]

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