PREDATOR - Tracker that learns and improves

Zdenek Kalal · 892K views · 2011 · 4:12

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Computer vision, speech & NLPMachine learning & deep learningdemodated

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

What it is

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.

Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2011 to 2023.

What Hacker News said

Recommends tom_b · 2011-04 · on “OpenTLD - The predator TLD source code is online”

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

Cites jackcviers3 · 2021-07 · on “Automating programming: AI is transforming the coding of computer programs”

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. [this video]

Cites rasz · 2023-08 · on “Meta AI releases CoTracker, a model for tracking any points (pixels) on a video”

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