A Reliable and Real-Time Tracking Method with Color Distribution

Occlusion is a challenging problem in visual tracking. Therefore, in recent years, many trackers have been explored to solve this problem, but most of them cannot track the target in real time because of the heavy computational cost. A spatio-temporal context (STC) tracker was proposed to accelerate...

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Main Authors: Zishu Zhao, Yuqi Han, Tingfa Xu, Xiangmin Li, Haiping Song, Jiqiang Luo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-10-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/10/2303
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Summary:Occlusion is a challenging problem in visual tracking. Therefore, in recent years, many trackers have been explored to solve this problem, but most of them cannot track the target in real time because of the heavy computational cost. A spatio-temporal context (STC) tracker was proposed to accelerate the task by calculating context information in the Fourier domain, alleviating the performance in handling occlusion. In this paper, we take advantage of the high efficiency of the STC tracker and employ salient prior model information based on color distribution to improve the robustness. Furthermore, we exploit a scale pyramid for accurate scale estimation. In particular, a new high-confidence update strategy and a re-searching mechanism are used to avoid the model corruption and handle occlusion. Extensive experimental results demonstrate our algorithm outperforms several state-of-the-art algorithms on the OTB2015 dataset.
ISSN:1424-8220