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Proposal-Based Visual Tracking Using Spatial Cascaded Transformed Region Proposal Network.

Ximing Zhang¹, Shujuan Luo², Xuewu Fan¹

¹Faculty of Space, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of CAS, Xi'an 710119, China.

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|August 30, 2020

Summary

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This study introduces the Spatial Cascaded Transformed Region Proposal Network (RPN) for enhanced object tracking. The new method improves proposal quality and tracker robustness by integrating spatial transformer networks and a novel shrinkage loss function.

Keywords:

multi-cue proposals re-ranking region proposals networks shrinkage loss spatial cascaded networks visual tracking

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Area of Science:

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Deep Learning

Background:

Region proposal network (RPN) based trackers struggle with feature utilization across convolutional layers and data imbalance.
Existing methods lack robustness in handling complex scenarios like scale variation and affine transformations.

Purpose of the Study:

To enhance the quality and robustness of object tracking using improved region proposals.
To address limitations in feature extraction and data imbalance in RPN-based trackers.

Main Methods:

Proposed the Spatial Cascaded Transformed RPN, integrating Region Proposal Network (RPN) and Spatial Transformer Network (STN).
Introduced a shrinkage loss function to mitigate data imbalance issues, replacing the standard smooth L1 loss.
Implemented multi-cue proposal re-ranking for improved tracking accuracy.

Main Results:

The Spatial Cascaded Transformed RPN demonstrated improved proposal quality and tracker robustness.
The integration of STN enhanced spatial representation for complex scenarios.
Ablation studies on OTB-2015, VOT-2018, LaSOT, TrackingNet, and UAV123 datasets validated the method's effectiveness.

Conclusions:

The proposed Spatial Cascaded Transformed RPN offers a significant advancement in object tracking.
The novel approach effectively handles scale variation and affine transformations, improving overall tracking performance.