Optimized Information Flow for Transformer Tracking

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Hauptverfasser: Kugarajeevan, Janani, Kokul, Thanikasalam, Ramanan, Amirthalingam, Fernando, Subha
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author Kugarajeevan, Janani
Kokul, Thanikasalam
Ramanan, Amirthalingam
Fernando, Subha
author_facet Kugarajeevan, Janani
Kokul, Thanikasalam
Ramanan, Amirthalingam
Fernando, Subha
contents One-stream Transformer trackers have shown outstanding performance in challenging benchmark datasets over the last three years, as they enable interaction between the target template and search region tokens to extract target-oriented features with mutual guidance. Previous approaches allow free bidirectional information flow between template and search tokens without investigating their influence on the tracker's discriminative capability. In this study, we conducted a detailed study on the information flow of the tokens and based on the findings, we propose a novel Optimized Information Flow Tracking (OIFTrack) framework to enhance the discriminative capability of the tracker. The proposed OIFTrack blocks the interaction from all search tokens to target template tokens in early encoder layers, as the large number of non-target tokens in the search region diminishes the importance of target-specific features. In the deeper encoder layers of the proposed tracker, search tokens are partitioned into target search tokens and non-target search tokens, allowing bidirectional flow from target search tokens to template tokens to capture the appearance changes of the target. In addition, since the proposed tracker incorporates dynamic background cues, distractor objects are successfully avoided by capturing the surrounding information of the target. The OIFTrack demonstrated outstanding performance in challenging benchmarks, particularly excelling in the one-shot tracking benchmark GOT-10k, achieving an average overlap of 74.6\%. The code, models, and results of this work are available at \url{https://github.com/JananiKugaa/OIFTrack}
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spellingShingle Optimized Information Flow for Transformer Tracking
Kugarajeevan, Janani
Kokul, Thanikasalam
Ramanan, Amirthalingam
Fernando, Subha
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
One-stream Transformer trackers have shown outstanding performance in challenging benchmark datasets over the last three years, as they enable interaction between the target template and search region tokens to extract target-oriented features with mutual guidance. Previous approaches allow free bidirectional information flow between template and search tokens without investigating their influence on the tracker's discriminative capability. In this study, we conducted a detailed study on the information flow of the tokens and based on the findings, we propose a novel Optimized Information Flow Tracking (OIFTrack) framework to enhance the discriminative capability of the tracker. The proposed OIFTrack blocks the interaction from all search tokens to target template tokens in early encoder layers, as the large number of non-target tokens in the search region diminishes the importance of target-specific features. In the deeper encoder layers of the proposed tracker, search tokens are partitioned into target search tokens and non-target search tokens, allowing bidirectional flow from target search tokens to template tokens to capture the appearance changes of the target. In addition, since the proposed tracker incorporates dynamic background cues, distractor objects are successfully avoided by capturing the surrounding information of the target. The OIFTrack demonstrated outstanding performance in challenging benchmarks, particularly excelling in the one-shot tracking benchmark GOT-10k, achieving an average overlap of 74.6\%. The code, models, and results of this work are available at \url{https://github.com/JananiKugaa/OIFTrack}
title Optimized Information Flow for Transformer Tracking
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08195