TLD is an award-winning, real-time algorithm for tracking of unknown objects in unconstrained video streams. The object of interest is defined by a bounding box in a single frame. TLD simultaneously Tracks the object, Learns its appearance and
Detects it whenever it appears in the video. The result is a real-time tracking that typically improves over time. Due to its learning abilities, TLD has been advertised under name 'Predator'.
TLD has been developed by Zdenek Kalal during his PhD thesis supervised by Dr. Krystian Mikolajczyk and Prof. Jiri Matas. The main contributions of TLD have been presented at international computer-vision conferences where TLD tracker significantly outperformed state-of-the-art approaches. For his work on TLD, Zdenek Kalal has been awarded the the UK ICT Pioneers 2011 prize.
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