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Discriminative Scale Space Tracking
Accurate scale estimation of a target is a challenging research problem in
visual object tracking. Most state-of-the-art methods employ an exhaustive
scale search to estimate the target size. The exhaustive search strategy is
computationally expensive and struggles when encountered with large scale
variations. This paper investigates the problem of accurate and robust scale
estimation in a tracking-by-detection framework. We propose a novel scale
adaptive tracking approach by learning separate discriminative correlation
filters for translation and scale estimation. The explicit scale filter is
learned online using the target appearance sampled at a set of different
scales. Contrary to standard approaches, our method directly learns the
appearance change induced by variations in the target scale. Additionally, we
investigate strategies to reduce the computational cost of our approach.
Extensive experiments are performed on the OTB and the VOT2014 datasets.
Compared to the standard exhaustive scale search, our approach achieves a gain
of 2.5% in average overlap precision on the OTB dataset. Additionally, our
method is computationally efficient, operating at a 50% higher frame rate
compared to the exhaustive scale search. Our method obtains the top rank in
performance by outperforming 19 state-of-the-art trackers on OTB and 37
state-of-the-art trackers on VOT2014.Comment: To appear in TPAMI. This is the journal extension of the
VOT2014-winning DSST tracking metho
Deformable Object Tracking with Gated Fusion
The tracking-by-detection framework receives growing attentions through the
integration with the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Existing
tracking-by-detection based methods, however, fail to track objects with severe
appearance variations. This is because the traditional convolutional operation
is performed on fixed grids, and thus may not be able to find the correct
response while the object is changing pose or under varying environmental
conditions. In this paper, we propose a deformable convolution layer to enrich
the target appearance representations in the tracking-by-detection framework.
We aim to capture the target appearance variations via deformable convolution,
which adaptively enhances its original features. In addition, we also propose a
gated fusion scheme to control how the variations captured by the deformable
convolution affect the original appearance. The enriched feature representation
through deformable convolution facilitates the discrimination of the CNN
classifier on the target object and background. Extensive experiments on the
standard benchmarks show that the proposed tracker performs favorably against
state-of-the-art methods
Active Collaborative Ensemble Tracking
A discriminative ensemble tracker employs multiple classifiers, each of which
casts a vote on all of the obtained samples. The votes are then aggregated in
an attempt to localize the target object. Such method relies on collective
competence and the diversity of the ensemble to approach the target/non-target
classification task from different views. However, by updating all of the
ensemble using a shared set of samples and their final labels, such diversity
is lost or reduced to the diversity provided by the underlying features or
internal classifiers' dynamics. Additionally, the classifiers do not exchange
information with each other while striving to serve the collective goal, i.e.,
better classification. In this study, we propose an active collaborative
information exchange scheme for ensemble tracking. This, not only orchestrates
different classifier towards a common goal but also provides an intelligent
update mechanism to keep the diversity of classifiers and to mitigate the
shortcomings of one with the others. The data exchange is optimized with regard
to an ensemble uncertainty utility function, and the ensemble is updated via
co-training. The evaluations demonstrate promising results realized by the
proposed algorithm for the real-world online tracking.Comment: AVSS 2017 Submissio
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