Robust Tracking via Feature Enrichment and Overlap Maximization

Mustansar Fiaz, Kamran Ali, Sangbum Yun, Ki Yeol Baek, Hye Jin Lee, In Su Kim, Arif Mahmood, Sehar Shahzad Farooq, Soon Ki Jung

Abstract: Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) based approaches have demonstrated an impressive gain over conventional approaches which resulted in rapid development of various visual object tracker. However, these advancements are limited in terms of accuracy due to the distractors available in the videos. Moreover, most of the deep trackers operate on low-resolution features, such as template matching, which are semantically reliable but are spatially less accurate. We propose an efficient feature enrichment module within tracking framework to learn the contextual reliable information and spatially accurate feature representation. Proposed feature enrichment combines enriched feature sets by exploiting contextual information from multiple scales as well as preserving the spatial information details. We integrate proposed feature enrichment module within baseline ATOM which solves the tracking problem by target estimation and classification components. The former component estimates the target based on IoU-predictor, while the later component is trained online to enforce high discrimination power. Experimental study over three benchmarks including VOT2015, VOT2016, and VOT2017 revealed that proposed feature enrichment module boosts the tracker accuracy.