Robust object tracking using a sparse coadjutant observation model

Abstract

This paper develops a classical visual tracker that is called a discriminative sparse similarity (DSS) tracker. Based on the classical Laplacian multi-task reverse sparse representation to get a DSS map in the DSS tracker, we introduce a sparse generative model (SGM) to handle the appearance variation in the DSS tracker. With the alliance of the DSS map and the SGM, our proposed method can track the object under the occlusion and appearance variations effectively. Numerous experiments on various challenging videos of a tracking benchmark illustrate that the proposed tracker performs favorably against several state-of-the-art trackers.