Talks to Watch

PREDATOR - Tracker that learns and improves

893K views · Jan 1, 2011 · 4:12 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2011–2023

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.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN found it a nifty demo and cites it as a primitive but effective learning tracker that predates modern deep-learning trackers.

“Very nifty.”HN comment, 2011

What Hacker News said 3

Recommendstom_bApr 2011

“Very nifty.”

Demo of a self-improving object tracker.

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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.

in “OpenTLD - The predator TLD source code is online” · view on HN
Cites itjackcviers3Jul 2021

Example that object tracking has existed for a decade.

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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

in “Automating programming: AI is transforming the coding of computer programs” · view on HN
Cites itraszAug 2023

“This time with some very primitive ML: OpenTLD”

Earlier primitive ML tracker, good enough for commercialization.

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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

in “Meta AI releases CoTracker, a model for tracking any points (pixels) on a video” · view on HN