Learning discriminative update adaptive spatial-temporal regularized correlation filter for RGB-T tracking

The RGB-T trackers based on correlation filter framework have been extensively investigated for that they can track targets more accurately in most complex scenes. However, the performance of these trackers is limited when facing some specific challenging scenarios, such as occlusion and background clutter. For different tracking targets, most of these trackers utilize fixed regularization constraint to build the filter model, which is obviously unreasonable to effectively present the appearance changes and characteristics of a specific target. In addition, they adopt a simple model update mechanism based on linear interpolation, which can easily lead to model degradation in challenging scenarios, resulting in tracker drift. To solve the above problems, we propose a novel adaptive spatial-temporal regularized correlation filter model to learn an appropriate regularization for achieving robust tracking and a relative peak discriminative method for model updating to avoid the model degradation. Besides, to make better integrate the unique advantages of the two modes and adapt the changing appearance of the target, an adaptive weighting ensemble scheme and a multi-scale search mechanism are adopted, respectively. To optimize the proposed model, we designed an efficient ADMM algorithm, which greatly improved the efficiency. Extensive experiments have been carried out on two available datasets, RGBT234 and RGBT210, and the experimental results indicate that the tracker proposed by us performs favorably in both accuracy and robustness against the state-of-the-art RGB-T trackers.