Multi-model Real-time Compressive Tracking

Object tracking is easily influenced by illumination, occlusion, scale, background clutter, and fast motion, and it requires higher real-time performance. The object tracking algorithm based on compressive sensing has a better real-time performance but performs weakly in tracking when object appearance is changed greatly. Based on the framework of compressive sensing, a Multi-Model real-time Compressive Tracking (MMCT) algorithm is proposed, which adopts the compressive sensing to decrease the high dimensional features for the tracking process and to satisfy the real-time performance. The MMCT algorithm selects the most suitable classifier by judging the maximum classification score difference of classifiers in the previous two frames, and enhances the accuracy of location. The MMCT algorithm also presents a new model update strategy, which employs the fixed or dynamic learning rates according to the differences of decision classifiers and improves the precision of classification. The multi-model introduced by MMCT does not increase the computational burden and shows an excellent real-time performance. The experimental results indicate that the MMCT algorithm can well adapt to illumination, occlusion, background clutter and plane-rotation.