NSF PR 03-80 - July 31, 2003
Video - IMSC Feature Tracking Scene 4-f
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The video depicts outdoor scenes shot from a handheld camcorder that were processed using the IMSC feature tracking technology. Even though there is motion and shake, the dots show where the tracking algorithm found good features to track. The dot stability and consistency are indications of how reliably the software tracks the features. Note that the system finds these points automatically as the "best suited" scene points for tracking.
Photo Credit: Ulrich Neumann, IMSC
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