Integrating Region and Boundary Information for Improved Spatial Coherencein Object Tracking
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper describes a novel method for performing spatially coherent motion estimation by integrating region and boundary information. The method begins with a layered, parametric flow model. Since the resulting flow estimates are typically sparse, we use the computed motion in a novel way to compare intensity values between images, thereby providing improved spatial coherence of a moving region. This dense set of intensity constraints is then used to initialize an active contour, which is influenced by both motion and intensity data to track the object's boundary. The active contour, in turn, provides additional spatial coherence by identifying motion constraints within the object boundary and using them exclusively in subsequent motion estimation for that object. The active contour is therefore automatically initialized once and, in subsequent frames, is warped forward based on the motion model. The spatial coherence constraints provided by both the motion and the boundary information act together to overcome their individual limitations. Furthermore, the approach is general, and makes no assumptions about a static background and/or a static camera. We apply the method to image sequences in which both the object and the background are moving.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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