Unambiguous Object Tracking by Exploiting Target Cues

Siamese tracking exploits the template and the search region features to adaptively locate arbitrary objects in the tracking. A noteworthy issue is that both foreground and background mix in the template, and thus a tracker needs to learn what the target is and which pixels belong to it. However, existing trackers cannot effectively exploit the template information, resulting in a deficiency of target information and causing confusion for the tracker regarding which pixels belong to the target. To alleviate this issue, we propose UTrack, a simple and effective algorithm for unambiguous object tracking. UTrack utilizes long-term contextual information to propagate the appearance state of the target so as to explicitly model the apparent information of the target. Additionally, UTrack can resist the appearance change of the target by leveraging the target cues. Moreover, the proposed method uses the refined template to obtain more detailed information about the target and better understand which pixels belong to the target. Extensive experiments and comparisons with competitive trackers on challenging large-scale benchmarks show that our tracker can achieve state-of-the-art performances with real-time running. In particular, UTrack achieves 77.7% AO on GOT-10k.