CNN-based single object detection and tracking in videos and its application to drone detection

Abstract

This paper presents convolutional neural network (CNN)-based single object detection and tracking algorithms. CNN-based object detection methods are directly applicable to static images, but not to videos. On the other hand, model-free visual object tracking methods cannot detect an object until a ground truth bounding box of the target is provided. Moreover, many annotated video datasets of the target object are required to train both the object detectors and visual trackers. In this work, three simple yet effective object detection and tracking algorithms for videos are proposed to efficiently combine a state-of-the-art object detector and visual tracker for circumstances in which only a few static images of the target are available for training. The proposed algorithms are tested using a drone detection task and the experimental results demonstrated their effectiveness.