Abstract:Due to the randomness and unpredictability of Ochotona curzoniae movement, the motions of Ochotona curzoniae contain smooth motions and abrupt motions in natural habitat environment. Under the circumstance of abrupt motions, the target position displacement is large between two adjacent frames. The stability and accuracy of the tracking method based on smooth motion hypothesis are difficult to guarantee. And abrupt motions are easy to cause Ochotona curzoniae tracking failure because abrupt motions violate the motion smoothness constraint. In allusion to the tracking problem of Ochotona curzoniae that smooth motions and abrupt motions coexistence, an Ochotona curzoniae tracking method based on the guidance of motion information was proposed. Considering the prior knowledge that the position displacement between two adjacent frames is smaller in smooth movement and the position displacement between two adjacent frames is larger in abrupt motion, motion information between the adjacent frames was extracted by the frame difference method at first and then the movement mode of Ochotona curzoniae was judged by motion information and appropriate sampling tracking strategy was taken to track Ochotona curzoniae. If the mode was judged to be a smooth motion mode, the Markov Chain Monte Carlo （MCMC） sampling tracking method based on the motion smoothness assumption was employed. Or else Wang-Landau Monte Carlo (WLMC) sampling tracking method used for abrupt motion tracking was adopted. The experimental results show that the proposed method can not only ensure the Ochotona curzoniae tracking performance of abrupt motions but also improve the Ochotona curzoniae tracking performance of smooth motions. The tracking success rate of proposed method was 95.49%, but the tracking success rate of WLMC method was 93.68%, the mean value and the variance of central point error in the proposed method were 13.46 and 67.89, which were 84.18% and 40.67% of those in the WLMC method, reduced by 15.82% and 59.33%, respectively.
