ECO: Efficient Convolution Operators for Tracking

ECO: Efficient Convolution Operators for Tracking

10 Apr 2017 | Martin Danelljan, Goutam Bhat, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Michael Felsberg
The paper "ECO: Efficient Convolution Operators for Tracking" by Martin Danelljan, Goutam Bhat, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, and Michael Felsberg addresses the challenges of computational complexity and over-fitting in Discriminative Correlation Filter (DCF) based tracking methods. The authors propose a novel formulation that includes a factorized convolution operator, a compact generative model of the training sample distribution, and an efficient model update strategy. These contributions aim to reduce the number of parameters, improve sample diversity, and enhance robustness while maintaining real-time performance. Experiments on four benchmarks (VOT2016, UAV123, OTB-2015, and TempleColor) demonstrate that the proposed approach significantly improves tracking performance and speed, achieving a 20-fold speedup and a 13.0% relative gain in Expected Average Overlap compared to the top-ranked method in the VOT2016 challenge. Additionally, a fast variant using hand-crafted features operates at 60 frames per second on a single CPU, outperforming other methods in terms of speed and accuracy.The paper "ECO: Efficient Convolution Operators for Tracking" by Martin Danelljan, Goutam Bhat, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, and Michael Felsberg addresses the challenges of computational complexity and over-fitting in Discriminative Correlation Filter (DCF) based tracking methods. The authors propose a novel formulation that includes a factorized convolution operator, a compact generative model of the training sample distribution, and an efficient model update strategy. These contributions aim to reduce the number of parameters, improve sample diversity, and enhance robustness while maintaining real-time performance. Experiments on four benchmarks (VOT2016, UAV123, OTB-2015, and TempleColor) demonstrate that the proposed approach significantly improves tracking performance and speed, achieving a 20-fold speedup and a 13.0% relative gain in Expected Average Overlap compared to the top-ranked method in the VOT2016 challenge. Additionally, a fast variant using hand-crafted features operates at 60 frames per second on a single CPU, outperforming other methods in terms of speed and accuracy.
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