Learning Adaptive Spatial Regularization and Temporal-Aware Correlation Filters for Visual Object Tracking

Liqiang Liu (), Tiantian Feng, Yanfang Fu (), Chao Shen, Zhijuan Hu, Maoyuan Qin, Xiaojun Bai and Shifeng Zhao
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Liqiang Liu: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi’an Technological University, Xi’an 710021, China
Tiantian Feng: School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
Yanfang Fu: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi’an Technological University, Xi’an 710021, China
Chao Shen: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi’an Technological University, Xi’an 710021, China
Zhijuan Hu: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi’an Technological University, Xi’an 710021, China
Maoyuan Qin: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi’an Technological University, Xi’an 710021, China
Xiaojun Bai: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi’an Technological University, Xi’an 710021, China
Shifeng Zhao: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi’an Technological University, Xi’an 710021, China

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 22, 1-19

Abstract: Recently, discriminative correlation filters (DCF) based trackers have gained much attention and obtained remarkable achievements for their high efficiency and outstanding performance. However, undesirable boundary effects occur when the DCF-based trackers suffer from challenging situations, such as occlusion, background clutters, fast motion, and so on. To address these problems, this work proposes a novel adaptive spatial regularization and temporal-aware correlation filters (ASTCF) model to deal with the boundary effects which occur in the correlation filters tracking. Firstly, our ASTCF model learns a more robust correlation filter template by introducing spatial regularization and temporal-aware components into the objective function. The adaptive spatial regularization provides a more robust appearance model to handle the large appearance changes at different times; meanwhile, the temporal-aware constraint can enhance the time continuity and consistency of this model. They make correlation filters model more discriminating, and also reduce the influence of the boundary effects during the tracking process. Secondly, the objective function can be transformed into three sub-problems with closed-form solutions and effectively solved via the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). Finally, we compare our tracker with some representative methods and evaluate using three different benchmarks, including OTB2015, VOT2018 and LaSOT datasets, where the experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our tracker on most of the performance criteria compared with the existing trackers.

Keywords: spatial regularization; temporal-aware; correlation filter tracking; alternating direction method of multipliers; boundary effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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