The SiamFC Tracker

[jimmy-dq]

Hello, Many thanks to your great work. There is one detail about the SiamFC retraining I want to ask: when you train SiamFC on the training part in GOT-10K, do you reinitialize SiamFC or use its pre-trained model on VID to further perform training on GOT-10K?

[jhultman]

@handworker I think the authors train SiamFC from scratch since trackers are forbidden from using external datasets under the GOT10k evaluation. Here is a quote from a recent paper (DiMP):

To ensure fair evaluation, the trackers are forbidden from using external datasets for training. We follow this protocol by retraining our trackers using only the GOT10k train split.

[jimmy-dq]

@jhultman Thanks for your reply. Yes, I see the rule and the reported SiamFC only use the training data in the GOT10K without using VID. Thanks!