articleJun 1, 2019Closed access

Fast Online Object Tracking and Segmentation: A Unifying Approach

Science Oxford · Institute of Automation · +2 more institutions

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Abstract

In this paper we illustrate how to perform both visual object tracking and semi-supervised video object segmentation, in real-time, with a single simple approach. Our method, dubbed SiamMask, improves the offline training procedure of popular fully-convolutional Siamese approaches for object tracking by augmenting their loss with a binary segmentation task. Once trained, SiamMask solely relies on a single bounding box initialisation and operates online, producing class-agnostic object segmentation masks and rotated bounding boxes at 55 frames per second. Despite its simplicity, versatility and fast speed, our strategy allows us to establish a new state-of-the-art among real-time trackers on VOT-2018, while at…

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Keywords
  • Computer science
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Segmentation
  • Minimum bounding box
  • Computer vision
  • Video tracking
  • Object (grammar)
  • Bounding overwatch
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