Title
Manipulating Template Pixels For Model Adaptation Of Siamese Visual Tracking
Abstract
In this letter, we show that the challenging model adaptation task in visual object tracking can be handled by simply manipulating pixels of the template image in Siamese networks. For a target that is not included in the offline training set, a slight modification of the template image pixels will improve the prediction result of the offline trained Siamese network. The popular adversarial example generation methods can be used to perform template pixel manipulation for model adaptation. Different from current template update methods, which aim to combine the target features from previous frames, we focus on the initial adaptation using target ground-truth in the first frame. Our model adaptation method is pluggable, in the sense that it does not alter the overall architecture of its base tracker. To our knowledge, this work is the first attempt to directly manipulating template pixels for model adaptation in Siamese-based trackers. Extensive experiments on recent benchmarks demonstrate that our method achieves better performance than some other state-of-the-art trackers. Our code is available at https://github.com/lizhenbang56/MTP.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/LSP.2020.3025406
IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Adaptation models, Target tracking, Task analysis, Visualization, Feature extraction, Object tracking, Training, Model adaptation, siamese networks, visual tracking
Journal
27
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1070-9908
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhenbang Li101.35
Bing Li221760.28
Jin Gao328014.51
Liang Li417219.95
Weiming Hu55300261.38