Robust visual tracking via efficient manifold ranking with low-dimensional compressive features

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract In this paper, a novel and robust tracking method based on efficient manifold ranking is proposed. For tracking, tracked results are taken as labeled nodes while candidate samples are taken as unlabeled nodes. The goal of tracking is to search the unlabeled sample that is the most relevant to the existing labeled nodes. Therefore, visual tracking is regarded as a ranking problem in which the relevance between an object appearance model and candidate samples is predicted by the manifold ranking algorithm. Due to the outstanding ability of the manifold ranking algorithm in discovering the underlying geometrical structure of a given image database, our tracker is more robust to overcome tracking drift. Meanwhile, we adopt non-adaptive random projections to preserve the structure of original image space, and a very sparse measurement matrix is used to efficiently extract low-dimensional compressive features for object representation. Furthermore, spatial context is used to improve the robustness to appearance variations. Experimental results on some challenging video sequences show that the proposed algorithm outperforms seven state-of-the-art methods in terms of accuracy and robustness

Visual tracking via graph-based efficient manifold ranking with low-dimensional compressive features

© 2014 IEEE. In this paper, a novel and robust tracking method based on efficient manifold ranking is proposed. For tracking, tracked results are taken as labeled nodes while candidate samples are taken as unlabeled nodes, and the goal of tracking is to search the unlabeled sample that is the most relevant with existing labeled nodes by manifold ranking algorithm. Meanwhile, we adopt non-adaptive random projections to preserve the structure of original image space, and a very sparse measurement matrix is used to efficiently extract low-dimensional compres-sive features for object representation. Furthermore, spatial context is used to improve the robustness to appearance variations. Experimental results on some challenging video sequences show the proposed algorithm outperforms six state-of-the-art methods in terms of accuracy and robustness

The Emerging Trends of Multi-Label Learning

Exabytes of data are generated daily by humans, leading to the growing need for new efforts in dealing with the grand challenges for multi-label learning brought by big data. For example, extreme multi-label classification is an active and rapidly growing research area that deals with classification tasks with an extremely large number of classes or labels; utilizing massive data with limited supervision to build a multi-label classification model becomes valuable for practical applications, etc. Besides these, there are tremendous efforts on how to harvest the strong learning capability of deep learning to better capture the label dependencies in multi-label learning, which is the key for deep learning to address real-world classification tasks. However, it is noted that there has been a lack of systemic studies that focus explicitly on analyzing the emerging trends and new challenges of multi-label learning in the era of big data. It is imperative to call for a comprehensive survey to fulfill this mission and delineate future research directions and new applications.Comment: Accepted to TPAMI 202