Adaptive multi-filter tracker based on efficient convolution operator

Abstract

With the problem of difficulty that a single filter to adapt to various complex changes in the tracking process, an adaptive multi-filter target tracking algorithm based on the efficient convolution operators for tracking is proposed. Spatial-temporal regularized filter, the consistency check filter and the correlation filter in the efficient convolution operator tracker, convolve with target features respectively, which obtains three detection scores. The training method of spatial-temporal regularized filter is to introduce temporal regularization into loss function. The consistency check filter is a filter that uses current filter to track the target of previous several frames and updates only when the error of forward and backward position is less than the threshold. Target position is estimated by the best filter detection score with the peak-to-side ratio is maximum. The improved algorithm is tested with the OTB-2015 dataset and UAV123 dataset. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can better adapt to the complex environment in tracking process, which has high precision and robustness.