Definition self.get_backbone_clf_feat(backbone_feat) function at ltr/models/tracking/tompnet.py

[shen-ttt]

Thank you for your amazing work!

I am trying to understand the logic of ToMP and find the definition of self.get_backbone_clf_feat intriguing (Line 63). There seems to be no declaration of this function in the tomp framework. And ToMP Tracker keeps calling this function and it works perfectly.

And I searched the entire codebase, these files define this function but none of them is used in tompnet.py.

./ltr/models/tracking/dimpnet.py:    def get_backbone_clf_feat(self, backbone_feat):
./ltr/models/tracking/kysnet.py:    def get_backbone_clf_feat(self, backbone_feat):
./ltr/models/target_candidate_matching/target_candidate_matching.py:    def get_backbone_clf_feat(self, backbone_feat):
./ltr/models/rts/rts_net.py:    def get_backbone_clf_feat(self, backbone_feat):

Could you help me and explain to me a bit? Thank you!

[2006pmach]

To me it looks like get_backbone_clf_feat() is no longer used nor called. The only function that used it is extract_head_feat() which is only called by extract_features() which is not used anywhere from what I see. Probably these functions are just leftovers and should have been removed. I haven't tested yet if inference and training still work when removing these parts but I think it should be fine.

[shen-ttt]

Yeah, I was wrong. Those functions are never used.

Thank you! Will close this thread now