Title
Alpha-Refine: Boosting Tracking Performance by Precise Bounding Box Estimation
Abstract
Visual object tracking aims to precisely estimate the bounding box for the given target, which is a challenging problem due to factors such as deformation and occlusion. Many recent trackers adopt the multiple-stage strategy to improve bounding box estimation. These methods first coarsely locate the target and then refine the initial prediction in the following stages. However, existing approaches still suffer from limited precision, and the coupling of different stages severely restricts the method's transferability. This work proposes a novel, flexible, and accurate refinement module called Alpha-Refine (AR), which can significantly improve the base trackers' box estimation quality. By exploring a series of design options, we conclude that the key to successful refinement is extracting and maintaining detailed spatial information as much as possible. Following this principle, Alpha-Refine adopts a pixel-wise correlation, a corner prediction head, and an auxiliary mask head as the core components. Comprehensive experiments on TrackingNet, LaSOT, GOT-10K, and VOT2020 benchmarks with multiple base trackers show that our approach significantly improves the base tracker's performance with little extra latency. The proposed Alpha-Refine method leads to a series of strengthened trackers, among which the ARSiamRPN (AR strengthened SiamRPNpp) and the ARDiMP50 (AR strengthened DiMP50) achieve good efficiency-precision trade-off while the ARDiMPsuper (AR strengthened DiMPsuper) achieves very competitive performance at a realtime speed. Code and pretrained models are available at hups://github.com/MasterBin-IIALI/Alphalteline.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/CVPR46437.2021.00525
2021 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION, CVPR 2021
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1063-6919
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bin Yan1171.95
Xinyu Zhang210.35
Dong Wang332614.06
Huchuan Lu44827186.26
Xiaoyun Yang57410.39