Title: Robust Tracking Using Region Proposal Networks,
Abstract: Recent advances in visual tracking showed that deep Convolutional Neural
Networks (CNN) trained for image classification can be strong feature
extractors for discriminative trackers. However, due to the drastic difference
between image classification and tracking, extra treatments such as model
ensemble and feature engineering must be carried out to bridge the two domains.
Such procedures are either time consuming or hard to generalize well across
datasets. In this paper we discovered that the internal structure of Region
Proposal Network (RPN)'s top layer feature can be utilized for robust visual
tracking. We showed that such property has to be unleashed by a novel loss
function which simultaneously considers classification accuracy and bounding
box quality. Without ensemble and any extra treatment on feature maps, our
proposed method achieved state-of-the-art results on several large scale
benchmarks including OTB50, OTB100 and VOT2016. We will make our code publicly
available.