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Transforming Model Prediction for Tracking

21 Mar 2022CVPR 2022 1arXiv:2203.11192archive 2025-07-28

Christoph Mayer, Martin Danelljan, Goutam Bhat, Matthieu Paul, Danda Pani Paudel, Fisher Yu, Luc van Gool

Optimization based tracking methods have been widely successful by integrating a target model prediction module, providing effective global reasoning by minimizing an objective function. While this inductive bias integrates valuable domain knowledge, it limits the expressivity of the tracking network. In this work, we therefore propose a tracker architecture employing a Transformer-based model prediction module. Transformers capture global relations with little inductive bias, allowing it to learn the prediction of more powerful target models. We further extend the model predictor to estimate a second set of weights that are applied for accurate bounding box regression. The resulting tracker relies on training and on test frame information in order to predict all weights transductively. We train the proposed tracker end-to-end and validate its performance by conducting comprehensive experiments on multiple tracking datasets. Our tracker sets a new state of the art on three benchmarks, achieving an AUC of 68.5% on the challenging LaSOT dataset.

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Inductive BiasPredictionVideo Object TrackingVisual Object Trackingmodel

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Video Object Tracking NT-VOT211 ToMP-50 AUC 39.25 #5 of 43 Archive leaderboard report
Video Object Tracking NT-VOT211 ToMP-50 Precision 53.01 #5 of 43 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Object Tracking AVisT ToMP Success Rate 52.5 #5 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Object Tracking LaSOT ToMP Precision 67.1 #46 of 46 Archive leaderboard report

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