Visual object tracking based on discriminant DCT features

Abstract

In this paper, a visual object tracking method is proposed based on sparse 2-dimensional discrete cosine transform (2D DCT) coefficients as discriminative features. To select the discriminative DCT coefficients, we give two propositions. The propositions select the features based on estimated mean of feature distributions in each frame. Some intermediate tracking instances are obtained by (a) computing feature similarity using kernel, (b) finding the maximum classifier score computed using ratio classifier, and (c) combinations of both. Another intermediate tracking instance is obtained using incremental subspace learning method. The final tracked instance amongst the intermediate instances are selected by using a discriminative linear classifier learned in each frame. The linear classifier is updated in each frame using some of the intermediate tracked instances. The proposed method has a better tracking performance as compared to state-of-the-art video trackers in a dataset of 50 challenging video sequences.