Abstract
We present the shape model object tracker, which is accurate, robust, and real-time capable on a standard CPU. The tracker has a failure mode detection, is robust to nonlinear illumination changes, and can cope with occlusions. It uses subpixel-precise image edges to track roughly rigid objects with high accuracy and is virtually drift-free even for long sequences. Furthermore, it is inherently capable of object re-detection when tracking fails. To evaluate the accuracy, robustness, and efficiency of the tracker precisely, we present a challenging new tracking dataset with pixel-precise ground truth. The precise ground-truth labels are created automatically from the photo-realistic synthetic VIPER dataset. The tracker is thoroughly evaluated against the state of the art through a number of qualitative and quantitative experiments. It is able to perform on par with the current state-of-the-art deep-learning trackers, but is at least 45 times faster, even without using a GPU. The efficiency and low memory consumption of the tracker are validated in further experiments that are conducted on an embedded device.
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