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Semi-supervised tensor-based graph embedding learning and its application to visual discriminant tracking
An appearance model adaptable to changes in object appearance is critical in visual object tracking. In
this paper, we treat an image patch as a 2-order tensor which preserves the original image structure. We design
two graphs for characterizing the intrinsic local geometrical structure of the tensor samples of the object and the
background. Graph embedding is used to reduce the dimensions of the tensors while preserving the structure of
the graphs. Then, a discriminant embedding space is constructed. We prove two propositions for finding the
transformation matrices which are used to map the original tensor samples to the tensor-based graph embedding
space. In order to encode more discriminant information in the embedding space, we propose a transfer-learningbased
semi-supervised strategy to iteratively adjust the embedding space into which discriminative information
obtained from earlier times is transferred. We apply the proposed semi-supervised tensor-based graph
embedding learning algorithm to visual tracking. The new tracking algorithm captures an object’s appearance
characteristics during tracking and uses a particle filter to estimate the optimal object state. Experimental results
on the CVPR 2013 benchmark dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed tracking algorithm