Title
Evaluation of Feature Channels for Correlation-Filter-Based Visual Object Tracking in Infrared Spectrum
Abstract
Correlation filters for visual object tracking in visible imagery has been well-studied. Most of the correlation-filterbased methods use either raw image intensities or feature maps of gradient orientations or color channels. However, well-known features designed for visible spectrum may not be ideal for infrared object tracking, since infrared and visible spectra have dissimilar characteristics in general. We assess the performance of two state-of-the-art correlationfilter-based object tracking methods on Linköping Thermal InfraRed (LTIR) dataset of medium wave and longwave infrared videos, using deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) features as well as other traditional hand-crafted descriptors. The deep CNN features are trained on an infrared dataset consisting of 16K objects for a supervised classification task. The highest performance in terms of the overlap metric is achieved when these deep CNN features are utilized in a correlation-filter-based tracker.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/CVPRW.2016.43
2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
Keywords
Field
DocType
feature channel evaluation,correlation-filter-based visual object tracking,infrared spectrum,visible imagery,correlation-filter based methods,raw image intensities,feature maps,gradient orientations,color channels,infrared spectra,visible spectra,Linköping thermal infrared dataset,LTIR dataset,medium wave infrared videos,longwave infrared videos,deep convolutional neural networks features,CNN features,supervised classification task,overlap metric,correlation-filter-based tracker
Medium wave,Computer vision,Correlation filter,Pattern recognition,Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Communication channel,Visible spectrum,Video tracking,Artificial intelligence,Infrared,Channel (digital image)
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2016
1
2160-7508
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-1438-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
19
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Erhan Gundogdu1355.37
Aykut Koc2129.01
Berkan Solmaz31688.38
Riad I. Hammoud41189.46
A. Aydin Alatan565585.78