Contribution to dimension reduction techniques : application to object tracking

Overview & Synopsis

This thesis studies three popular dimension reduction techniques: compressed sensing, random projection and sparse representation, and brings significant improvements on these techniques. In compressed sensing, the construction of sensing matrix with both good performance and hardware-Friendly structure has been a significant challenge. In this thesis, we explicitly propose the optimal zero-One binary matrix by searching the best Restricted Isometry Property. In practice, an efficient greedy algorithm is successively developed to construct the optimal binary matrix with arbitrary size. Moreover, we also study another interesting problem for compressed sensing, that is the performance of sensing matrices with high compression rates. For the first time, the performance floor of random Bernoulli matrices over increasing compression rates is observed and effectively estimated. Random projection is mainly used in the task of classification, for which the construction of random projection matrix is also critical in terms of both performance and complexity. This thesis presents so far the most sparse random projection matrix, which is proved holding better feature selection performance than other more dense random matrices. The theoretical result is confirmed with extensive experiments. As a novel technique for feature or sample selection, sparse representation has recently been widely applied in the area of image processing. In this thesis, we mainly focus our attention on its applications to visual object tracking. To reduce the computation load related to sparse representation, a simple but efficient scheme is proposed for the tracking of single object. Subsequently, the potential of sparse representation to multiobject tracking is investigated.