Self-Supervised Deep Correlation Tracking.

Publisher:
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
IEEE Trans Image Process, 2021, 30, pp. 976-985
Issue Date:
2021
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The training of a feature extraction network typically requires abundant manually annotated training samples, making this a time-consuming and costly process. Accordingly, we propose an effective self-supervised learning-based tracker in a deep correlation framework (named: self-SDCT). Motivated by the forward-backward tracking consistency of a robust tracker, we propose a multi-cycle consistency loss as self-supervised information for learning feature extraction network from adjacent video frames. At the training stage, we generate pseudo-labels of consecutive video frames by forward-backward prediction under a Siamese correlation tracking framework and utilize the proposed multi-cycle consistency loss to learn a feature extraction network. Furthermore, we propose a similarity dropout strategy to enable some low-quality training sample pairs to be dropped and also adopt a cycle trajectory consistency loss in each sample pair to improve the training loss function. At the tracking stage, we employ the pre-trained feature extraction network to extract features and utilize a Siamese correlation tracking framework to locate the target using forward tracking alone. Extensive experimental results indicate that the proposed self-supervised deep correlation tracker (self-SDCT) achieves competitive tracking performance contrasted to state-of-the-art supervised and unsupervised tracking methods on standard evaluation benchmarks.
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