A lightweight convolutional network for infrared object detection and tracking

Abstract

As an important application of computer vision, visual tracking has being a fundamental topic. Compared with visible image, infrared image has the characteristic of low resolution, blurred contour and single color feature. Thus, it is still a challenge for infrared object tracking. Further, it is difficult to balance the real-time performance and accuracy. This paper proposed a method for target detection and tracking, with a deeper and lightweight MobileNet V2 structure as the backbone network. In the end, the tracker is tested on various datasets. Result shows that the tracker can get a balance between tracking accuracy and inference speed, which is crucial for deployment on mobile devices.