• 中国计算机学会会刊
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A spatio-temporal context based visual tracking algorithm
with anti-occlusion and adaptive target change

ZHANG Jing,WANG Xu,FAN Hongbo   

  1. (Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation,Kunming University of Science and Technology,Kunming 650500,China)
     
  • Received:2017-06-21 Revised:2017-08-23 Online:2018-09-25 Published:2018-09-25

Abstract:

In order to adapt to the target scale changes and resolve the unrecoverable problem of target tracking failure in the tracking process in traditional spatiotemporal context, we propose an antiocclusion and adaptive target change visual tracking algorithm based on spatiotemporal context learning, called STCALD. Firstly, we employ  the TLD median flow algorithm to initialize the tracking point and the forwardbackward (FB) error algorithm to predict the location of the next frame. Secondly, we use the STC algorithm to determine the output box and calculate its conservative similarity. When the threshold is exceeded the tracking is valid, and the movement similarity between the tracking point and the target frame is calculated. On the contrary, if the tracking fails, we use the TLD detector for detection. As for a single cluster box, it is taken as the output directly; but for multiple detection clusters, its spacetime context model is learned, confidence graphs are calculated one by one by the current spatial model, and  the maximum confidence map is taken as the output. Finally, we update classifier related parameters for online learning and conduct experiments on different test video sequences. Experimental results show that the STCALD algorithm can be applied to visual target tracking in complex conditions, such as scale change, occlusion, and so on with a certain degree of robustness.
 

Key words: target tracking, adaptive, scale change, spatiotemporal context, movement similarity