scholarly journals Improved Hierarchical Convolutional Features for Robust Visual Object Tracking

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jinping Sun

The target and background will change continuously in the long-term tracking process, which brings great challenges to the accurate prediction of targets. The correlation filter algorithm based on manual features is difficult to meet the actual needs due to its limited feature representation ability. Thus, to improve the tracking performance and robustness, an improved hierarchical convolutional features model is proposed into a correlation filter framework for visual object tracking. First, the objective function is designed by lasso regression modeling, and a sparse, time-series low-rank filter is learned to increase the interpretability of the model. Second, the features of the last layer and the second pool layer of the convolutional neural network are extracted to realize the target position prediction from coarse to fine. In addition, using the filters learned from the first frame and the current frame to calculate the response maps, respectively, the target position is obtained by finding the maximum response value in the response map. The filter model is updated only when these two maximum responses meet the threshold condition. The proposed tracker is evaluated by simulation analysis on TC-128/OTB2015 benchmarks including more than 100 video sequences. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed tracker achieves competitive performance against state-of-the-art trackers. The distance precision rate and overlap success rate of the proposed algorithm on OTB2015 are 0.829 and 0.695, respectively. The proposed algorithm effectively solves the long-term object tracking problem in complex scenes.

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1963
Author(s):  
Shanshan Luo ◽  
Baoqing Li ◽  
Xiaobing Yuan ◽  
Huawei Liu

The Discriminative Correlation Filter (DCF) has been universally recognized in visual object tracking, thanks to its excellent accuracy and high speed. Nevertheless, these DCF-based trackers perform poorly in long-term tracking. The reasons include the following aspects—first, they have low adaptability to significant appearance changes in long-term tracking and are prone to tracking failure; second, these trackers lack a practical re-detection module to find the target again after tracking failure. In our work, we propose a new long-term tracking strategy to solve these issues. First, we make the best of the static and dynamic information of the target by introducing the motion features to our long-term tracker and obtain a more robust tracker. Second, we introduce a low-rank sparse dictionary learning method for re-detection. This re-detection module can exploit a correlation among these training samples and alleviate the impact of occlusion and noise. Third, we propose a new reliability evaluation method to model an adaptive update, which can switch expediently between the tracking module and the re-detection module. Massive experiments demonstrate that our proposed approach has an obvious improvement in precision and success rate over these state-of-the-art trackers.


2021 ◽  
Vol 434 ◽  
pp. 268-284
Author(s):  
Muxi Jiang ◽  
Rui Li ◽  
Qisheng Liu ◽  
Yingjing Shi ◽  
Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle

2021 ◽  
pp. 85-127
Author(s):  
Weiwei Xing ◽  
Weibin Liu ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
Shunli Zhang ◽  
Lihui Wang ◽  
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Complexity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ming-xin Jiang ◽  
Xian-xian Luo ◽  
Tao Hai ◽  
Hai-yan Wang ◽  
Song Yang ◽  
...  

Visual object tracking is a fundamental component in many computer vision applications. Extracting robust features of object is one of the most important steps in tracking. As trackers, only formulated on RGB data, are usually affected by occlusions, appearance, or illumination variations, we propose a novel RGB-D tracking method based on genetic feature learning in this paper. Our approach addresses feature learning as an optimization problem. As owning the advantage of parallel computing, genetic algorithm (GA) has fast speed of convergence and excellent global optimization performance. At the same time, unlike handcrafted feature and deep learning methods, GA can be employed to solve the problem of feature representation without prior knowledge, and it has no use for a large number of parameters to be learned. The candidate solution in RGB or depth modality is represented as an encoding of an image in GA, and genetic feature is learned through population initialization, fitness evaluation, selection, crossover, and mutation. The proposed RGB-D tracker is evaluated on popular benchmark dataset, and experimental results indicate that our method achieves higher accuracy and faster tracking speed.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (14) ◽  
pp. 4021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustansar Fiaz ◽  
Arif Mahmood ◽  
Soon Ki Jung

We propose to improve the visual object tracking by introducing a soft mask based low-level feature fusion technique. The proposed technique is further strengthened by integrating channel and spatial attention mechanisms. The proposed approach is integrated within a Siamese framework to demonstrate its effectiveness for visual object tracking. The proposed soft mask is used to give more importance to the target regions as compared to the other regions to enable effective target feature representation and to increase discriminative power. The low-level feature fusion improves the tracker robustness against distractors. The channel attention is used to identify more discriminative channels for better target representation. The spatial attention complements the soft mask based approach to better localize the target objects in challenging tracking scenarios. We evaluated our proposed approach over five publicly available benchmark datasets and performed extensive comparisons with 39 state-of-the-art tracking algorithms. The proposed tracker demonstrates excellent performance compared to the existing state-of-the-art trackers.


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