On the Contribution of Saliency in Visual Tracking

Iman Alikhani, Hamed R.-Tavakoli, Esa Rahtu, Jorma Laaksonen

2016

Abstract

Visual target tracking is a long-standing problem in the domain of computer vision. There are numerous methods proposed over several years. A recent trend in visual tracking has been target representation and tracking using saliency models inspired by the attentive mechanism of the human. Motivated to investigate the usefulness of such target representation scheme, we study several target representation techniques for mean-shift tracking framework, where the feature space can include color, texture, saliency, and gradient orientation information. In particular, we study the usefulness of the joint distribution of color-texture, color-saliency, and color-orientation in comparison with the color distribution. The performance is evaluated using the visual object tracking (VOT) 2013 which provides a systematic mechanism and a database for the assessment of tracking algorithms. We summarize the results in terms of accuracy & robustness; and discuss the usefulness of saliency-based target tracking.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Alikhani I., R.-Tavakoli H., Rahtu E. and Laaksonen J. (2016). On the Contribution of Saliency in Visual Tracking . In Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-175-5, pages 17-21. DOI: 10.5220/0005648900170021

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp16,
author={Iman Alikhani and Hamed R.-Tavakoli and Esa Rahtu and Jorma Laaksonen},
title={On the Contribution of Saliency in Visual Tracking},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={17-21},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005648900170021},
isbn={978-989-758-175-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)
TI - On the Contribution of Saliency in Visual Tracking
SN - 978-989-758-175-5
AU - Alikhani I.
AU - R.-Tavakoli H.
AU - Rahtu E.
AU - Laaksonen J.
PY - 2016
SP - 17
EP - 21
DO - 10.5220/0005648900170021