학술논문

Real-time Visual Object Tracking with Natural Language Description
Document Type
Conference
Source
2020 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2020 IEEE Winter Conference on. :689-698 Mar, 2020
Subject
Computing and Processing
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Target tracking
Feature extraction
Natural languages
Convolution
Visualization
Proposals
Language
ISSN
2642-9381
Abstract
In this work, we argue that conditioning on the natural language (NL) description of a target provides information for longer-term invariance, and thus helps cope with typical tracking challenges. However, deriving a formulation to combine the strengths of appearance-based tracking with the language modality is not straightforward. Therefore, we propose a novel deep tracking-by-detection formulation that can take advantage of NL descriptions. Regions that are related to the given NL description are generated by a proposal network during the detection stage of the tracker. Our LSTM based tracker then predicts the update of the target from regions proposed by the NL based detection stage. Our method runs at over 30 fps on a single GPU. In benchmarks, our method is competitive with state of the art trackers that employ bounding boxes for initialization, while it outperforms all other trackers on targets given unambiguous and precise language annotations. When conditioned on NL descriptions only, our model doubles the performance of the previous best attempt [25].