Title: DCCO: Towards Deformable Continuous Convolution Operators,
Abstract: Discriminative Correlation Filter (DCF) based methods have shown competitive
performance on tracking benchmarks in recent years. Generally, DCF based
trackers learn a rigid appearance model of the target. However, this reliance
on a single rigid appearance model is insufficient in situations where the
target undergoes non-rigid transformations. In this paper, we propose a unified
formulation for learning a deformable convolution filter. In our framework, the
deformable filter is represented as a linear combination of sub-filters. Both
the sub-filter coefficients and their relative locations are inferred jointly
in our formulation. Experiments are performed on three challenging tracking
benchmarks: OTB- 2015, TempleColor and VOT2016. Our approach improves the
baseline method, leading to performance comparable to state-of-the-art.