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Main Authors: Zhang, Shang, Guan, HuiPan, Ding, XiaoBo, Xiong, Ruoyan, Zhang, Yue
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14566
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author Zhang, Shang
Guan, HuiPan
Ding, XiaoBo
Xiong, Ruoyan
Zhang, Yue
author_facet Zhang, Shang
Guan, HuiPan
Ding, XiaoBo
Xiong, Ruoyan
Zhang, Yue
contents Thermal infrared target tracking is crucial in applications such as surveillance, autonomous driving, and military operations. In this paper, we propose a novel tracker, SMTT, which effectively addresses common challenges in thermal infrared imagery, such as noise, occlusion, and rapid target motion, by leveraging multi-task learning, joint sparse representation, and adaptive graph regularization. By reformulating the tracking task as a multi-task learning problem, the SMTT tracker independently optimizes the representation of each particle while dynamically capturing spatial and feature-level similarities using a weighted mixed-norm regularization strategy. To ensure real-time performance, we incorporate the Accelerated Proximal Gradient method for efficient optimization. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets - including VOT-TIR, PTB-TIR, and LSOTB-TIR - demonstrate that SMTT achieves superior accuracy, robustness, and computational efficiency. These results highlight SMTT as a reliable and high-performance solution for thermal infrared target tracking in complex environments.
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spellingShingle SMTT: Novel Structured Multi-task Tracking with Graph-Regularized Sparse Representation for Robust Thermal Infrared Target Tracking
Zhang, Shang
Guan, HuiPan
Ding, XiaoBo
Xiong, Ruoyan
Zhang, Yue
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Thermal infrared target tracking is crucial in applications such as surveillance, autonomous driving, and military operations. In this paper, we propose a novel tracker, SMTT, which effectively addresses common challenges in thermal infrared imagery, such as noise, occlusion, and rapid target motion, by leveraging multi-task learning, joint sparse representation, and adaptive graph regularization. By reformulating the tracking task as a multi-task learning problem, the SMTT tracker independently optimizes the representation of each particle while dynamically capturing spatial and feature-level similarities using a weighted mixed-norm regularization strategy. To ensure real-time performance, we incorporate the Accelerated Proximal Gradient method for efficient optimization. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets - including VOT-TIR, PTB-TIR, and LSOTB-TIR - demonstrate that SMTT achieves superior accuracy, robustness, and computational efficiency. These results highlight SMTT as a reliable and high-performance solution for thermal infrared target tracking in complex environments.
title SMTT: Novel Structured Multi-task Tracking with Graph-Regularized Sparse Representation for Robust Thermal Infrared Target Tracking
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14566