Tracking with Kernelized Correlation Filters

Code author : Tomas Vojir

This is a C++ reimplementation of algorithm presented in "High-Speed Tracking with Kernelized Correlation Filters" paper. For more info and implementation in other languages visit the autor's webpage!.

It is extended by a scale estimation (use several 7 different scales steps) and by a RGB (channels) and Color Names [2] features. Data for Color Names features were obtained from SAMF tracker.

It is free for research use. If you find it useful or use it in your research, please acknowledge my git repository and cite the original paper [1].

The code depends on OpenCV 2.4+ library and is build via cmake toolchain.

Quick start guide

for linux: open terminal in the directory with the code

$ mkdir build; cd build; cmake .. ; make

This code compiles into binary kcf_vot

./kcf_vot

• using VOT 2014 methodology (http://www.votchallenge.net/)
  • INPUT : expecting two files, images.txt (list of sequence images with absolute path) and region.txt with initial bounding box in the first frame in format "top_left_x, top_left_y, width, height" or four corner points listed clockwise starting from bottom left corner.
  • OUTPUT : output.txt containing the bounding boxes in the format "top_left_x, top_left_y, width, height"

./kcf_trax

• using VOT 2014+ trax protocol (http://www.votchallenge.net/)
• require trax library to be compiled with opencv support and installed. See trax instruction for compiling and installing.

Performance

References

[1] João F. Henriques, Rui Caseiro, Pedro Martins, Jorge Batista, “High-Speed Tracking with Kernelized Correlation Filters“, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2015

[2] J. van de Weijer, C. Schmid, J. J. Verbeek, and D. Larlus. "Learning color names for real-world applications." TIP, 18(7):1512–1524, 2009.

Copyright (c) 2014, Tomáš Vojíř

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Additional Library

NOTE: The following files are part of Piotr's Toolbox, and were modified for usage with c++

src/piotr_fhog/gradientMex.cpp src/piotr_fhog/sse.hpp src/piotr_fhog/wrappers.hpp

You are encouraged to get the full version of this library here.

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