Detection and Compensation of Specular Highlights
As shown in the experimental results below, the specularity detection process prevents the color object tracking system from loosing track of the target object. For more detailed "how-to explanation, please read the related conferene papers.

The provided movie will guide you how the detection of specularity will help on the tasks of color object tracking:

1. Without specularity detection and compensation process: demo1 (mpg-1 file) (2.8 Mb).

Here is an MPEG-I movie showing the Tracking with Specularity detection algorithm tracking a red toy truck.

Demo Video for a tracking sequence WITHOUT specularity detection & compensation. Please notice that the location of the tracking window is shifted as specular highlight appears dominantly! ..

Here is another MPEG-I movie showing the Tracking with Specularity detection algorithm tracking a red toy truck.

Demo Video for a tracking sequence WITH specularity detection & compensation. Please notice that the object is always remained in the center of the tracking window. Simply A Better Tracking System !!! ..

PDF Title 1 New Color Space Modeling This work has been submitted to the following conference: Jae B. Park, Youngrock Yoon and Avinash C. Kak, "A New Color Representation for Object Tracking under Non-white Illumination Conditions", Submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2004) , New Orleans, U.S.A., May, 2004. (.pdf)

PDF Title 2 Sub Title Coming soon ...