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Learning to fuse asymmetric feature maps in Siamese trackers
arXiv
  • Wencheng Han, Beijing Institute of Technology
  • Xingping Dong, Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence
  • Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
  • Ling Shao, Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence
  • Jianbing Shen, Beijing Institute of Technology
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Abstract

Recently, Siamese-based trackers have achieved promising performance in visual tracking. Most recent Siamese-based trackers typically employ a depth-wise cross-correlation (DW-XCorr) to obtain multi-channel correlation information from the two feature maps (target and search region). However, DW-XCorr has several limitations within Siamese-based tracking: it can easily be fooled by distractors, has fewer activated channels and provides weak discrimination of object boundaries. Further, DW-XCorr is a handcrafted parameter-free module and cannot fully benefit from offline learning on large-scale data. We propose a learnable module, called the asymmetric convolution (ACM), which learns to better capture the semantic correlation information in offline training on large-scale data. Different from DW-XCorr and its predecessor (XCorr), which regard a single feature map as the convolution kernel, our ACM decomposes the convolution operation on a concatenated feature map into two mathematically equivalent operations, thereby avoiding the need for the feature maps to be of the same size (width and height) during concatenation. Our ACM can incorporate useful prior information, such as bounding-box size, with standard visual features. Furthermore, ACM can easily be integrated into existing Siamese trackers based on DW-XCorr or XCorr. To demonstrate its generalization ability, we integrate ACM into three representative trackers: SiamFC, SiamRPN++ and SiamBAN. Our experiments reveal the benefits of the proposed ACM, which outperforms existing methods on six tracking benchmarks. On the LaSOT test set, our ACM-based tracker obtains a significant improvement of 5.8% in terms of success (AUC), over the baseline.

DOI
doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2012.02776
Publication Date
3-31-2021
Keywords
  • Kernel,
  • Stochastic processes,
  • Training,
  • Approximation algorithms,
  • Optimization,
  • Measurement,
  • Learning systems
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Citation Information
W. Han, X. Dong, F. Khan, L. Shao and J. Shen, "Learning to fuse asymmetric feature maps in Siamese trackers", 2021, arXiv:2012.02776v2