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We report findings on the optimization of the performances of correlation filters. First, we propound and validate an optimization of ROC curves adapted to correlation technique. Then, analysis suggests that a pre-processing of the input plane leads to a compromise between the robustness of the adapted filter and the discrimination of the inverse filter for face recognition applications. Rewardingly, our technical results demonstrate that this method is remarkably efficient to increase the performances of a VanderLugt correlator. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present an optimized system specially designed for the tracking and recognition of moving subjects in a confined environment (such as an elderly remaining at home). In the first step of our study, we use a VanderLugt correlator (VLC) with an adapted pre-processing treatment of the input plane and a postprocessing of the correlation plane via a nonlinear function allowing us to make a robust decision. The second step is based on an optical joint transform correlation (JTC)-based system (NZ-NL-correlation JTC) for achieving improved detection and tracking of moving persons in a confined space. The proposed system has been found to have significantly superior discrimination and robustness capabilities allowing to detect an unknown target in an input scene and to determine the target’s trajectory when this target is in motion. This system offers robust tracking performance of a moving target in several scenarios, such as rotational variation of input faces. Test results obtained using various real life video sequences show that the proposed system is particularly suitable for real-time detection and tracking of moving objects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]