Visual tracking via adaptive structural local sparse appearance model

Sparse representation has been applied to visual tracking by finding the best candidate with minimal reconstruction error using target templates. However most sparse representation based trackers only consider the holistic representation and do not make full use of the sparse coefficients to discriminate between the target and the background, and hence may fail with more possibility when there is similar object or occlusion in the scene. In this paper we develop a simple yet robust tracking method based on the structural local sparse appearance model. This representation exploits both partial information and spatial information of the target based on a novel alignment-pooling method. The similarity obtained by pooling across the local patches helps not only locate the target more accurately but also handle occlusion. In addition, we employ a template update strategy which combines incremental subspace learning and sparse representation. This strategy adapts the template to the appea...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2012
• Where: CVPR
• Authors: Xu Jia, Huchuan Lu, Ming-Hsuan Yang
• Keywords: Appearance Model, Computer Vision, Cvpr 2012, Sparse Appearance, Target Template