Despite demonstrated success of SVM based trackers,their performance remains a boosting room if carefully considering the following factors:first,the tradeoff between sampling and budgeting samples affects tracking ac...Despite demonstrated success of SVM based trackers,their performance remains a boosting room if carefully considering the following factors:first,the tradeoff between sampling and budgeting samples affects tracking accuracy and efficiency much;second,how to effectively fuse different types of features to learn a robust target representation plays a key role in tracking accuracy.In this paper,we propose a novel SVM based tracking method that handles the first factor with the help of the circulant structures of the samples and the second one by a multi-kernel learning mechanism.Specifically,we formulate an SVM classification model for visual tracking that incorporates two types of kernels whose matrices are circulant,fully taking advantage of the complementary traits of the color and HOG features to learn a robust target representation.Moreover,it is fortunate that the SVM model has a closed-form solution in terms of both the classifier weights and the kernel weights,and both can be efficiently computed via fast Fourier transforms(FFTs).Extensive evaluations on OTB100 and VOT2016 visual tracking benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a favorable performance against various state-of-the-art trackers with a speed of 50 fps on a single CPU.展开更多
基金the National Nature Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61471274).
文摘Despite demonstrated success of SVM based trackers,their performance remains a boosting room if carefully considering the following factors:first,the tradeoff between sampling and budgeting samples affects tracking accuracy and efficiency much;second,how to effectively fuse different types of features to learn a robust target representation plays a key role in tracking accuracy.In this paper,we propose a novel SVM based tracking method that handles the first factor with the help of the circulant structures of the samples and the second one by a multi-kernel learning mechanism.Specifically,we formulate an SVM classification model for visual tracking that incorporates two types of kernels whose matrices are circulant,fully taking advantage of the complementary traits of the color and HOG features to learn a robust target representation.Moreover,it is fortunate that the SVM model has a closed-form solution in terms of both the classifier weights and the kernel weights,and both can be efficiently computed via fast Fourier transforms(FFTs).Extensive evaluations on OTB100 and VOT2016 visual tracking benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a favorable performance against various state-of-the-art trackers with a speed of 50 fps on a single CPU.
