Compressive Tracking with Adaptive Color Feature Selection and Foreground Modeling

Part-based trackers have achieved promising performance in many tracking tasks. However, most part-based trackers use the same feature representation for all parts and simply combine them together to form an integral representation for the tracking target. It may not guarantee that all parts of the tracking target can well distinguish the foreground from the background. Better performance is expected by exploring different feature representations on different parts of the tracking target. In this paper, following the framework of the classic Compressive Tracker (CT), we model each part of the target adaptively by using a multi-dimensional color representation. By using color name, we select the color feature presentation that best distinguishes the foreground from background. In order to better handle deformation and illumination change, we use multi Gaussian to model different appearance changes of the tracking target. Both qualitative and quantitative evaluations demonstrate that the proposed method makes a consistent performance improvement compared with the conventional Compressive Tracker on tracking benchmark dataset. Besides, it also outperforms many state-of-the-art trackers while running at averagely 20 frames per second (FPS).