Improved dual‐mode compressive tracking integrating balanced colour and texture features

Abstract

Discriminative tracking methods can achieve state‐of‐the‐art performance by considering tracking as a classification problem tackled with both object and background information. As a high efficient discriminative tracker, compressive tracking (CT) has attracted much attention recently. However, it may easily fail when the object suffers from long‐term occlusions, and severe appearance and illumination changes. To address these issues, the authors develop a robust tracking framework based on CT by considering balanced feature representation as well as dual‐mode classifier construction. First, the original measurement matrix of CT works as a dominated texture feature extractor. To obtain a balanced feature representation, they propose to induce a complementary measurement matrix by considering both texture and colour features. Then, they develop two classifiers (dual mode) by using previous and current sample sets, respectively, and subsequently combine them into one ensemble classifier to track the target, which can help to avoid tracking failure suffering from severe appearance changes and long term occlusion. Moreover, they propose a classifier updating schema to prevent the inclusion of unsatisfied positive samples by predicting the occlusions with their ensemble classifier. The extensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of their tracking framework under various situations.