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PREDATOR - Tracker that learns and improves

PREDATOR - Tracker that learns and improves on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2011–2023.

Zdenek Kalal

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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 recommends it

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

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“Very nifty.”
— tom_b, Apr 2011, in “OpenTLD - The predator TLD source code is online”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

tom_bApr 2011Recommends

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

raszAug 2023Cites it

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

jackcviers3Jul 2021Cites it

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

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Computer vision, speech & NLPMachine learning & deep learningobject trackingopentldonline learningreal-time visionpredator