SOWP: Spatially ordered and weighted patch descriptor for visual tracking

Han Ul Kim, Dae Youn Lee, Jae Young Sim, Chang Su Kim

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Abstract

A simple yet effective object descriptor for visual tracking is proposed in this paper. We first decompose the bounding box of a target object into multiple patches, which are described by color and gradient histograms. Then, we concatenate the features of the spatially ordered patches to represent the object appearance. Moreover, to alleviate the impacts of background information possibly included in the bounding box, we determine patch weights using random walk with restart (RWR) simulations. The patch weights represent the importance of each patch in the description of foreground information, and are used to construct an object descriptor, called spatially ordered and weighted patch (SOWP) descriptor. We incorporate the proposed SOWP descriptor into the structured output tracking framework. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm yields significantly better performance than the state-of-the-art trackers on a recent benchmark dataset, and also excels in another recent benchmark dataset.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages3011-3019
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781467383912
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Feb 2015
Event15th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2015 - Santiago, Chile
Duration: 11 Dec 201518 Dec 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
Volume2015 International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2015
ISSN (Print)1550-5499

Conference

Conference15th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2015
Country/TerritoryChile
CitySantiago
Period11/12/1518/12/15

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