Visual object tracking based on adaptive Siamese and motion estimation network

Hossein Kashiani

doi:10.1016/j.imavis.2019.02.003

2019-03-01

Hossein Kashiani *

Shahriar B. Shokouhi

DOI：10.1016/j.imavis.2019.02.003

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Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN) has attracted much attention in different areas of computer vision, due to its powerful abstract feature representation. Visual object tracking is one of the interesting and important areas in computer vision that achieves remarkable improvements in recent years. In this work, we aim to improve both the motion and observation models in visual object tracking by leveraging representation power of CNNs. To this end, a motion estimation network (named MEN) is utilized to seek the most likely locations of the target and prepare a further clue in addition to the previous target position. Hence the motion estimation would be enhanced by generating a small number of candidates near two plausible positions. The generated candidates are then fed into a trained Siamese network to detect the most probable candidate. Each candidate is compared to an adaptable buffer, which is updated under a predefined condition. To take into account the target appearance changes, a weighting CNN (called WCNN) adaptively assigns weights to the final similarity scores of the Siamese network using sequence-specific information. Evaluation results on well-known benchmark datasets (OTB100, OTB50 and OTB2013) prove that the proposed tracker outperforms the state-of-the-art competitors. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keyword:

Object tracking

Siamese network

Convolutional neural networks

Motion estimation