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Drift-Resilient Temporal Priors for Visual Tracking

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-04-06 v1

Abstract

Temporal information is crucial for visual tracking, but existing multi-frame trackers are vulnerable to model drift caused by naively aggregating noisy historical predictions. In this paper, we introduce DTPTrack, a lightweight and generalizable module designed to be seamlessly integrated into existing trackers to suppress drift. Our framework consists of two core components: (1) a Temporal Reliability Calibrator (TRC) mechanism that learns to assign a per-frame reliability score to historical states, filtering out noise while anchoring on the ground-truth template; and (2) a Temporal Guidance Synthesizer (TGS) module that synthesizes this calibrated history into a compact set of dynamic temporal priors to provide predictive guidance. To demonstrate its versatility, we integrate DTPTrack into three diverse tracking architectures--OSTrack, ODTrack, and LoRAT-and show consistent, significant performance gains across all baselines. Our best-performing model, built upon an extended LoRATv2 backbone, sets a new state-of-the-art on several benchmarks, achieving a 77.5% Success rate on LaSOT and an 80.3% AO on GOT-10k.

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@article{arxiv.2604.02654,
  title  = {Drift-Resilient Temporal Priors for Visual Tracking},
  author = {Yuqing Huang and Liting Lin and Weijun Zhuang and Zhenyu He and Xin Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.02654},
  year   = {2026}
}

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accepted by CVPR 2026

R2 v1 2026-07-01T11:52:14.258Z