Staple: Complementary Learners for Real-Time Tracking

Luca Bertinetto, Jack Valmadre, Stuart Golodetz, Ondrej Miksik, Philip H. S. Torr
2016 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)  
Figure 1 : Sometimes colour distributions are not enough to discriminate the target from the background. Conversely, template models (like HOG) depend on the spatial configuration of the object and perform poorly when this changes rapidly. Our tracker Staple can rely on the strengths of both template and colour-based models. Like DSST [10], its performance is not affected by non-distinctive colours (top). Like DAT [33], it is robust to fast deformations (bottom). Abstract Correlation
more » ... d trackers have recently achieved excellent performance, showing great robustness to challenging situations exhibiting motion blur and illumination changes. However, since the model that they learn depends strongly on the spatial layout of the tracked object, they are notoriously sensitive to deformation. Models based on colour statistics have complementary traits: they cope well with variation in shape, but suffer when illumination is not consistent throughout a sequence. Moreover, colour distributions alone can be insufficiently discriminative. In this paper, we show that a simple tracker combining complementary cues in a ridge regression framework can operate faster than 80 FPS and outperform not only all entries in the popular VOT14 competition, but also recent and far more sophisticated trackers according to multiple benchmarks.
doi:10.1109/cvpr.2016.156 dblp:conf/cvpr/BertinettoVGMT16 fatcat:742ksngrabeqlaje3yh4qrcba4