Boosting Self-Supervised Tracking with Contextual Prompts and Noise Learning

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Main Authors: Zheng, Yaozong, Liang, Qihua, Zhong, Bineng, Zeng, Shuimu, Xue, Yuanliang, Li, Ning, Song, Shuxiang
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author Zheng, Yaozong
Liang, Qihua
Zhong, Bineng
Zeng, Shuimu
Xue, Yuanliang
Li, Ning
Song, Shuxiang
author_facet Zheng, Yaozong
Liang, Qihua
Zhong, Bineng
Zeng, Shuimu
Xue, Yuanliang
Li, Ning
Song, Shuxiang
contents Learning robust contextual knowledge from unlabeled videos is essential for advancing self-supervised tracking. However, conventional self-supervised trackers lack effective context modeling, while existing context association methods based on non-semantic queries struggle to adapt to unlabeled tracking scenarios, making it difficult to learn reliable contextual cues. In this work, we propose a novel self-supervised tracking framework, named \textbf{\tracker}, which introduces a dual-modal context association mechanism that jointly leverages fine-grained semantic prompts and contextual noise to drive the model toward learning robust tracking representations. Adherent to the easy-to-hard learning principle, our contextual association mechanism operates based on two stages. During early training, instance patch tokens (prompts) are assigned to both forward and backward tracking branches to facilitate the acquisition of tracking knowledge. As training progresses, contextual noise is gradually injected into the model to perturb feature, encouraging the tracker to learn robust tracking representations in a more complex feature space. Thus, this novel contextual association mechanism enables our self-supervised model to learn high-quality tracking representations from unlabeled videos, while being applied exclusively during training to preserve efficient inference. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our method.
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spellingShingle Boosting Self-Supervised Tracking with Contextual Prompts and Noise Learning
Zheng, Yaozong
Liang, Qihua
Zhong, Bineng
Zeng, Shuimu
Xue, Yuanliang
Li, Ning
Song, Shuxiang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Learning robust contextual knowledge from unlabeled videos is essential for advancing self-supervised tracking. However, conventional self-supervised trackers lack effective context modeling, while existing context association methods based on non-semantic queries struggle to adapt to unlabeled tracking scenarios, making it difficult to learn reliable contextual cues. In this work, we propose a novel self-supervised tracking framework, named \textbf{\tracker}, which introduces a dual-modal context association mechanism that jointly leverages fine-grained semantic prompts and contextual noise to drive the model toward learning robust tracking representations. Adherent to the easy-to-hard learning principle, our contextual association mechanism operates based on two stages. During early training, instance patch tokens (prompts) are assigned to both forward and backward tracking branches to facilitate the acquisition of tracking knowledge. As training progresses, contextual noise is gradually injected into the model to perturb feature, encouraging the tracker to learn robust tracking representations in a more complex feature space. Thus, this novel contextual association mechanism enables our self-supervised model to learn high-quality tracking representations from unlabeled videos, while being applied exclusively during training to preserve efficient inference. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our method.
title Boosting Self-Supervised Tracking with Contextual Prompts and Noise Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06092