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Gradient-Enhanced Particle Filter for Vision-Based Motion Capture Daniel Grest and Volker Kru?ger Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence Lab {dag,vok}@cvmi.aau.dk Abstract. Tracking of rigid and articulated objects is usually addressed within a particle filter framework or by correspondence based gradient descent methods. We combine both methods, such that (a) the correspondence based estimation gains the advantage of the particle filter and becomes able to follow multiple hypotheses while (b) the particle filter becomes able to propagate the particles