GradNet: Gradient-Guided Network for Visual Object Tracking

Peixia Li, Boyu Chen, Wanli Ouyang, Dong Wang, Xiaoyun Yang, Huchuan Lu; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019, pp. 6162-6171

Abstract


The fully-convolutional siamese network based on template matching has shown great potentials in visual tracking. During testing, the template is fixed with the initial target feature and the performance totally relies on the general matching ability of the siamese network. However, this manner cannot capture the temporal variations of targets or background clutter. In this work, we propose a novel gradient-guided network to exploit the discriminative information in gradients and update the template in the siamese network through feed-forward and backward operations. To be specific, the algorithm can utilize the information from the gradient to update the template in the current frame. In addition, a template generalization training method is proposed to better use gradient information and avoid overfitting. To our knowledge, this work is the first attempt to exploit the information in the gradient for template update in siamese-based trackers. Extensive experiments on recent benchmarks demonstrate that our method achieves better performance than other state-of-the-art trackers.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Li_2019_ICCV,
author = {Li, Peixia and Chen, Boyu and Ouyang, Wanli and Wang, Dong and Yang, Xiaoyun and Lu, Huchuan},
title = {GradNet: Gradient-Guided Network for Visual Object Tracking},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
month = {October},
year = {2019}
}