An accelerated correlation filter tracker. (June 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Xu, Tianyang; Feng, Zhen-Hua; Wu, Xiao-Jun; Kittler, Josef
• Is Part Of: Pattern recognition. Volume 102(2020:Jun.)
• Publication Date: 2020-06
• Subjects: Visual object tracking -- Discriminative correlation filters -- Accelerated optimisation -- Alternating direction method of multipliers; Pattern perception -- Periodicals; Perception des structures -- Périodiques; Patroonherkenning; 006.4
• DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2019.107172
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0031-3203

Abstract

Highlights: A formulation of the DCF design problem which focuses on informative feature channels and spatial structures by means of novel regularisation. A proposed relaxed optimisation algorithm referred to as R_A-ADMM for optimising the regularised DCF. In contrast with the standard ADMM, the algorithm achieves a better convergence rate. A temporal smoothness constraint, implemented by an adaptive initialisation mechanism, to achieve further speed up via transfer learning among video frames. The proposed adoption of AlexNet to construct a light-weight deep representation with a tracking accuracy comparable to more complicated deep networks, such as VGG and ResNet. An extensive evaluation of the proposed methodology on several well-known visual object tracking datasets, with the results confirming the acceleration gains for the regularised DCF paradigm. Abstract: Recent visual object tracking methods have witnessed a continuous improvement in the state-of-the-art with the development of efficient discriminative correlation filters (DCF) and robust deep neural network features. Despite the outstanding performance achieved by the above combination, existing advanced trackers suffer from the burden of high computational complexity of the deep feature extraction and online model learning. We propose an accelerated ADMM optimisation method obtained by adding a momentum to the optimisation sequence iterates, and by relaxing the impact of the error between DCF parameters and their norm. The proposed optimisation method is applied to an innovative formulation of the DCF design, which seeks the most discriminative spatially regularised feature channels. A further speed up is achieved by an adaptive initialisation of the filter optimisation process. The significantly increased convergence of the DCF filter is demonstrated by establishing the optimisation process equivalence with a continuous dynamical system for which the convergence properties can readily be derived. The experimental results obtained on several well-known benchmarking datasets demonstrate the efficiency and robustness of the proposed ACFT method, with a tracking accuracy comparable to the start-of-the-art trackers.