SDSTrack: Self-Distillation Symmetric Adapter Learning for Multi-Modal Visual Object Tracking

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hou, Xiaojun, Xing, Jiazheng, Qian, Yijie, Guo, Yaowei, Xin, Shuo, Chen, Junhao, Tang, Kai, Wang, Mengmeng, Jiang, Zhengkai, Liu, Liang, Liu, Yong
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866909153834827776
author Hou, Xiaojun
Xing, Jiazheng
Qian, Yijie
Guo, Yaowei
Xin, Shuo
Chen, Junhao
Tang, Kai
Wang, Mengmeng
Jiang, Zhengkai
Liu, Liang
Liu, Yong
author_facet Hou, Xiaojun
Xing, Jiazheng
Qian, Yijie
Guo, Yaowei
Xin, Shuo
Chen, Junhao
Tang, Kai
Wang, Mengmeng
Jiang, Zhengkai
Liu, Liang
Liu, Yong
contents Multimodal Visual Object Tracking (VOT) has recently gained significant attention due to its robustness. Early research focused on fully fine-tuning RGB-based trackers, which was inefficient and lacked generalized representation due to the scarcity of multimodal data. Therefore, recent studies have utilized prompt tuning to transfer pre-trained RGB-based trackers to multimodal data. However, the modality gap limits pre-trained knowledge recall, and the dominance of the RGB modality persists, preventing the full utilization of information from other modalities. To address these issues, we propose a novel symmetric multimodal tracking framework called SDSTrack. We introduce lightweight adaptation for efficient fine-tuning, which directly transfers the feature extraction ability from RGB to other domains with a small number of trainable parameters and integrates multimodal features in a balanced, symmetric manner. Furthermore, we design a complementary masked patch distillation strategy to enhance the robustness of trackers in complex environments, such as extreme weather, poor imaging, and sensor failure. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SDSTrack outperforms state-of-the-art methods in various multimodal tracking scenarios, including RGB+Depth, RGB+Thermal, and RGB+Event tracking, and exhibits impressive results in extreme conditions. Our source code is available at https://github.com/hoqolo/SDSTrack.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2403_16002
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle SDSTrack: Self-Distillation Symmetric Adapter Learning for Multi-Modal Visual Object Tracking
Hou, Xiaojun
Xing, Jiazheng
Qian, Yijie
Guo, Yaowei
Xin, Shuo
Chen, Junhao
Tang, Kai
Wang, Mengmeng
Jiang, Zhengkai
Liu, Liang
Liu, Yong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimodal Visual Object Tracking (VOT) has recently gained significant attention due to its robustness. Early research focused on fully fine-tuning RGB-based trackers, which was inefficient and lacked generalized representation due to the scarcity of multimodal data. Therefore, recent studies have utilized prompt tuning to transfer pre-trained RGB-based trackers to multimodal data. However, the modality gap limits pre-trained knowledge recall, and the dominance of the RGB modality persists, preventing the full utilization of information from other modalities. To address these issues, we propose a novel symmetric multimodal tracking framework called SDSTrack. We introduce lightweight adaptation for efficient fine-tuning, which directly transfers the feature extraction ability from RGB to other domains with a small number of trainable parameters and integrates multimodal features in a balanced, symmetric manner. Furthermore, we design a complementary masked patch distillation strategy to enhance the robustness of trackers in complex environments, such as extreme weather, poor imaging, and sensor failure. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SDSTrack outperforms state-of-the-art methods in various multimodal tracking scenarios, including RGB+Depth, RGB+Thermal, and RGB+Event tracking, and exhibits impressive results in extreme conditions. Our source code is available at https://github.com/hoqolo/SDSTrack.
title SDSTrack: Self-Distillation Symmetric Adapter Learning for Multi-Modal Visual Object Tracking
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16002