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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
Detect-and-Track: Efficient Pose Estimation in Videos
This paper addresses the problem of estimating and tracking human body
keypoints in complex, multi-person video. We propose an extremely lightweight
yet highly effective approach that builds upon the latest advancements in human
detection and video understanding. Our method operates in two-stages: keypoint
estimation in frames or short clips, followed by lightweight tracking to
generate keypoint predictions linked over the entire video. For frame-level
pose estimation we experiment with Mask R-CNN, as well as our own proposed 3D
extension of this model, which leverages temporal information over small clips
to generate more robust frame predictions. We conduct extensive ablative
experiments on the newly released multi-person video pose estimation benchmark,
PoseTrack, to validate various design choices of our model. Our approach
achieves an accuracy of 55.2% on the validation and 51.8% on the test set using
the Multi-Object Tracking Accuracy (MOTA) metric, and achieves state of the art
performance on the ICCV 2017 PoseTrack keypoint tracking challenge.Comment: In CVPR 2018. Ranked first in ICCV 2017 PoseTrack challenge (keypoint
tracking in videos). Code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/DetectAndTrack
and webpage: https://rohitgirdhar.github.io/DetectAndTrack
Enhancement of ELDA Tracker Based on CNN Features and Adaptive Model Update
Appearance representation and the observation model are the most important components in designing a robust visual tracking algorithm for video-based sensors. Additionally, the exemplar-based linear discriminant analysis (ELDA) model has shown good performance in object tracking. Based on that, we improve the ELDA tracking algorithm by deep convolutional neural network (CNN) features and adaptive model update. Deep CNN features have been successfully used in various computer vision tasks. Extracting CNN features on all of the candidate windows is time consuming. To address this problem, a two-step CNN feature extraction method is proposed by separately computing convolutional layers and fully-connected layers. Due to the strong discriminative ability of CNN features and the exemplar-based model, we update both object and background models to improve their adaptivity and to deal with the tradeoff between discriminative ability and adaptivity. An object updating method is proposed to select the “good” models (detectors), which are quite discriminative and uncorrelated to other selected models. Meanwhile, we build the background model as a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to adapt to complex scenes, which is initialized offline and updated online. The proposed tracker is evaluated on a benchmark dataset of 50 video sequences with various challenges. It achieves the best overall performance among the compared state-of-the-art trackers, which demonstrates the effectiveness and robustness of our tracking algorithm
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