Effective template update mechanism in visual tracking with background clutter

Abstract

Today, artificial intelligence is everywhere in people’s daily lives. Visual tracking, which is used to identify and continuously track specific targets, is an important research domain in the study of artificial intelligence. However, current visual tracking methods are not accurate enough for object tracking with background clutter, which can easily lead to tracking failures. Therefore, in this paper, in order to solve the problem of tracking failure in clutter background, we propose a template update mechanism to improve the accuracy of visual tracking. First, an original template is saved when the background clutter is detected. During background clutter, we use both the original template and the current template at the location estimated by the optical flow and choose better one. Next, the original template is reused after the background clutter is ended. Finally, the proposed mechanism is used both in the KCF and BACF algorithm to verify the effectiveness of the mechanism. With experiments on the OTB2015 dataset, results show that the proposed mechanism has improved accuracy and success rate of the two baseline algorithms. Meanwhile, in state-of-the-art algorithms, the algorithm using the proposed mechanism also has excellent tracking performance. In addition, this method also has strong tracking robustness and adaptation capability to sequential learning for video data.