Graph mode-based contextual kernels for robust SVM tracking

  • Authors:
  • Xi Li;Anthony Dick;Hanzi Wang;Chunhua Shen;Anton van den Hengel

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia;School of Computer Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia;Center for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Xiamen University, China, 361005;School of Computer Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia;School of Computer Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia

  • Venue:
  • ICCV '11 Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Visual tracking has been typically solved as a binary classification problem. Most existing trackers only consider the pairwise interactions between samples, and thereby ignore the higher-order contextual interactions, which may lead to the sensitivity to complicated factors such as noises, outliers, background clutters and so on. In this paper, we propose a visual tracker based on support vector machines (SVMs), for which a novel graph mode-based contextual kernel is designed to effectively capture the higher-order contextual information from samples. To do so, we first create a visual graph whose similarity matrix is determined by a baseline visual kernel. Second, a set of high-order contexts are discovered in the visual graph. The problem of discovering these high-order contexts is solved by seeking modes of the visual graph. Each graph mode corresponds to a vertex community termed as a high-order context. Third, we construct a contextual kernel that effectively captures the interaction information between the high-order contexts. Finally, this contextual kernel is embedded into SVMs for robust tracking. Experimental results on challenging videos demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed tracker.