Partial Block Scheme and Adaptive Update Model for Kernelized Correlation Filters-Based Object Tracking

In visual object tracking, the dynamic environment is a challenging issue. Partial occlusion and scale variation are typical challenging problems. We present a correlation-based object tracking based on the discriminative model. To attenuate the influence by partial occlusion, partial sub-blocks are constructed from the original block, and each of them operates independently. The scale space is employed to deal with scale variation using a feature pyramid. We also present an adaptive update model with a weighting function to calculate the frame-adaptive learning rate. Theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can robustly track drastic deformed objects. The sparse update reduces the computational cost for real-time tracking. Although the partial block scheme generation increases the computational cost, we present a novel sparse update approach to reduce the computational cost drastically for real-time tracking. The experiments were performed on a variety of sequences, and the proposed method exhibited better performance compared with the state-of-the-art trackers

Effective Visual Tracking Using Multi-Block and Scale Space Based on Kernelized Correlation Filters

Accurate scale estimation and occlusion handling is a challenging problem in visual tracking. Recently, correlation filter-based trackers have shown impressive results in terms of accuracy, robustness, and speed. However, the model is not robust to scale variation and occlusion. In this paper, we address the problems associated with scale variation and occlusion by employing a scale space filter and multi-block scheme based on a kernelized correlation filter (KCF) tracker. Furthermore, we develop a more robust algorithm using an appearance update model that approximates the change of state of occlusion and deformation. In particular, an adaptive update scheme is presented to make each process robust. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperformed 29 state-of-the-art trackers on 100 challenging sequences. Specifically, the results obtained with the proposed scheme were improved by 8% and 18% compared to those of the KCF tracker for 49 occlusion and 64 scale variation sequences, respectively. Therefore, the proposed tracker can be a robust and useful tool for object tracking when occlusion and scale variation are involved