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Similarity matching is a core operation in Siamese trackers. Most Siamese trackers carry out similarity learning via cross correlation that originates from the image matching field. However, unlike 2-D image matching, the matching network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Jinpu Zhang , Yuehuan Wang

The success of visual tracking has been largely driven by datasets with manual box annotations. However, these box annotations require tremendous human effort, limiting the scale and diversity of existing tracking datasets. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Yaozong Zheng , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Ning Li , Shuxiang Song

Sparse representation has been widely studied in visual tracking, which has shown promising tracking performance. Despite a lot of progress, the visual tracking problem is still a challenging task due to appearance variations over time. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Xue Yang , Fei Han , Hua Wang , Hao Zhang

Refining visual representations by eliminating their internal feature-level redundancy is crucial for simultaneously optimizing the performance and computational cost of models in visual tracking. To enhance their performance, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Weijing Wu , Qihua Liang , Bineng Zhong , Haiying Xia , Zhiyi Mo , Shuxiang Song

In this paper, we propose a novel on-line visual tracking framework based on the Siamese matching network and meta-learner network, which run at real-time speeds. Conventional deep convolutional feature-based discriminative visual tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Janghoon Choi , Junseok Kwon , Kyoung Mu Lee

Correlation acts as a critical role in the tracking field, especially in recent popular Siamese-based trackers. The correlation operation is a simple fusion manner to consider the similarity between the template and the search region.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Xin Chen , Bin Yan , Jiawen Zhu , Dong Wang , Xiaoyun Yang , Huchuan Lu

Aerial object tracking remains a challenging task due to scale variations, dynamic backgrounds, clutter, and frequent occlusions. While most existing trackers emphasize spatial cues, they often overlook temporal dependencies, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Hojat Ardi , Amir Jahanshahi , Ali Diba

The paper focuses on a classical tracking model, subspace learning, grounded on the fact that the targets in successive frames are considered to reside in a low-dimensional subspace or manifold due to the similarity in their appearances. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yao Sui , Guanghui Wang , Li Zhang

In this paper, we present a simple yet fast and robust algorithm which exploits the spatio-temporal context for visual tracking. Our approach formulates the spatio-temporal relationships between the object of interest and its local context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-11 Kaihua Zhang , Lei Zhang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , David Zhang

Visual tracking problem demands to efficiently perform robust classification and accurate target state estimation over a given target at the same time. Former methods have proposed various ways of target state estimation, yet few of them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Yinda Xu , Zeyu Wang , Zuoxin Li , Ye Yuan , Gang Yu

Transformer-based trackers have achieved promising success and become the dominant tracking paradigm due to their accuracy and efficiency. Despite the substantial progress, most of the existing approaches tackle object tracking as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Siyuan Yao , Yang Guo , Yanyang Yan , Wenqi Ren , Xiaochun Cao

We propose an object tracking method, SFTrack++, that smoothly learns to preserve the tracked object consistency over space and time dimensions by taking a spectral clustering approach over the graph of pixels from the video, using a fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Elena Burceanu

Single object tracking in satellite videos is inherently challenged by small target, blurred background, large aspect ratio changes, and frequent visual occlusions. These constraints often cause appearance-based trackers to accumulate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zixiao Wen , Zhen Yang , Jiawei Li , Xiantai Xiang , Guangyao Zhou , Yuxin Hu , Yuhan Liu

Multiple object tracking (MOT) in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) videos is important for diverse applications in computer vision. Current MOT trackers rely on accurate object detection results and precise matching of target reidentification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Jianbo Ma , Chuanming Tang , Fei Wu , Can Zhao , Jianlin Zhang , Zhiyong Xu

Recently, Siamese networks have drawn great attention in visual tracking community because of their balanced accuracy and speed. However, features used in most Siamese tracking approaches can only discriminate foreground from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Zheng Zhu , Qiang Wang , Bo Li , Wei Wu , Junjie Yan , Weiming Hu

In video object tracking, there exist rich temporal contexts among successive frames, which have been largely overlooked in existing trackers. In this work, we bridge the individual video frames and explore the temporal contexts across them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Ning Wang , Wengang Zhou , Jie Wang , Houqaing Li

Siamese tracking has achieved groundbreaking performance in recent years, where the essence is the efficient matching operator cross-correlation and its variants. Besides the remarkable success, it is important to note that the heuristic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Zhipeng Zhang , Yihao Liu , Xiao Wang , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

Siamese-based trackers have achieved excellent performance on visual object tracking. However, the target template is not updated online, and the features of the target template and search image are computed independently in a Siamese…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yuechen Yu , Yilei Xiong , Weilin Huang , Matthew R. Scott

Offline Siamese networks have achieved very promising tracking performance, especially in accuracy and efficiency. However, they often fail to track an object in complex scenes due to the incapacity in online update. Traditional updaters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Xinglong Sun , Guangliang Han , Lihong Guo , Tingfa Xu , Jianan Li , Peixun Liu

More powerful feature representations derived from deep neural networks benefit visual tracking algorithms widely. However, the lack of exploitation on temporal information prevents tracking algorithms from adapting to appearances changing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Tao Hu , Lichao Huang , Xianming Liu , Han Shen