UncTrack: Reliable Visual Object Tracking with Uncertainty-Aware Prototype Memory Network

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Main Authors: Yao, Siyuan, Guo, Yang, Yan, Yanyang, Ren, Wenqi, Cao, Xiaochun
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author Yao, Siyuan
Guo, Yang
Yan, Yanyang
Ren, Wenqi
Cao, Xiaochun
author_facet Yao, Siyuan
Guo, Yang
Yan, Yanyang
Ren, Wenqi
Cao, Xiaochun
contents Transformer-based trackers have achieved promising success and become the dominant tracking paradigm due to their accuracy and efficiency. Despite the substantial progress, most of the existing approaches tackle object tracking as a deterministic coordinate regression problem, while the target localization uncertainty has been greatly overlooked, which hampers trackers' ability to maintain reliable target state prediction in challenging scenarios. To address this issue, we propose UncTrack, a novel uncertainty-aware transformer tracker that predicts the target localization uncertainty and incorporates this uncertainty information for accurate target state inference. Specifically, UncTrack utilizes a transformer encoder to perform feature interaction between template and search images. The output features are passed into an uncertainty-aware localization decoder (ULD) to coarsely predict the corner-based localization and the corresponding localization uncertainty. Then the localization uncertainty is sent into a prototype memory network (PMN) to excavate valuable historical information to identify whether the target state prediction is reliable or not. To enhance the template representation, the samples with high confidence are fed back into the prototype memory bank for memory updating, making the tracker more robust to challenging appearance variations. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms other state-of-the-art methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/ManOfStory/UncTrack.
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spellingShingle UncTrack: Reliable Visual Object Tracking with Uncertainty-Aware Prototype Memory Network
Yao, Siyuan
Guo, Yang
Yan, Yanyang
Ren, Wenqi
Cao, Xiaochun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Transformer-based trackers have achieved promising success and become the dominant tracking paradigm due to their accuracy and efficiency. Despite the substantial progress, most of the existing approaches tackle object tracking as a deterministic coordinate regression problem, while the target localization uncertainty has been greatly overlooked, which hampers trackers' ability to maintain reliable target state prediction in challenging scenarios. To address this issue, we propose UncTrack, a novel uncertainty-aware transformer tracker that predicts the target localization uncertainty and incorporates this uncertainty information for accurate target state inference. Specifically, UncTrack utilizes a transformer encoder to perform feature interaction between template and search images. The output features are passed into an uncertainty-aware localization decoder (ULD) to coarsely predict the corner-based localization and the corresponding localization uncertainty. Then the localization uncertainty is sent into a prototype memory network (PMN) to excavate valuable historical information to identify whether the target state prediction is reliable or not. To enhance the template representation, the samples with high confidence are fed back into the prototype memory bank for memory updating, making the tracker more robust to challenging appearance variations. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms other state-of-the-art methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/ManOfStory/UncTrack.
title UncTrack: Reliable Visual Object Tracking with Uncertainty-Aware Prototype Memory Network
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12888