Visual Tracking Paper List

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Papers

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Goutam Bhat, Martin Danelljan, Luc Van Gool, Radu Timofte. 
"Know Your Surroundings: Exploiting Scene Information for Object Tracking." Arxiv (2020).
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CVPR2020

MAML: Guangting Wang, Chong Luo, Xiaoyan Sun, Zhiwei Xiong, Wenjun Zeng. 
"Tracking by Instance Detection: A Meta-Learning Approach." CVPR (2020 Oral).
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Siam R-CNN: Paul Voigtlaender, Jonathon Luiten, Philip H.S. Torr, Bastian Leibe. 
"Siam R-CNN: Visual Tracking by Re-Detection." CVPR (2020).
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D3S: Alan Lukežič, Jiří Matas, Matej Kristan. 
"D3S – A Discriminative Single Shot Segmentation Tracker." CVPR (2020).
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PrDiMP: Martin Danelljan, Luc Van Gool, Radu Timofte. 
"Probabilistic Regression for Visual Tracking." CVPR (2020).
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ROAM: Tianyu Yang, Pengfei Xu, Runbo Hu, Hua Chai, Antoni B. Chan. 
"ROAM: Recurrently Optimizing Tracking Model." CVPR (2020).
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AutoTrack: Yiming Li, Changhong Fu, Fangqiang Ding, Ziyuan Huang, Geng Lu. 
"AutoTrack: Towards High-Performance Visual Tracking for UAV with Automatic Spatio-Temporal Regularization." CVPR (2020).
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SiamBAN: Zedu Chen, Bineng Zhong, Guorong Li, Shengping Zhang, Rongrong Ji. 
"Siamese Box Adaptive Network for Visual Tracking." CVPR (2020).
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SiamAttn: Yuechen Yu, Yilei Xiong, Weilin Huang, Matthew R. Scott. 
"Deformable Siamese Attention Networks for Visual Object Tracking." CVPR (2020).
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CGACD: Fei Du, Peng Liu, Wei Zhao, Xianglong Tang. 
"Correlation-Guided Attention for Corner Detection Based Visual Tracking." CVPR (2020).

AAAI 2020

SiamFC++: Yinda Xu, Zeyu Wang, Zuoxin Li, Ye Yuan, Gang Yu. 
"SiamFC++: Towards Robust and Accurate Visual Tracking with Target Estimation Guidelines." AAAI (2020).
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ICCV2019

DiMP: Goutam Bhat, Martin Danelljan, Luc Van Gool, Radu Timofte. 
"Learning Discriminative Model Prediction for Tracking." ICCV (2019 oral).
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GradNet: Peixia Li, Boyu Chen, Wanli Ouyang, Dong Wang, Xiaoyun Yang, Huchuan Lu. 
"GradNet: Gradient-Guided Network for Visual Object Tracking." ICCV (2019 oral).
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MLT: Janghoon Choi, Junseok Kwon, Kyoung Mu Lee. 
"Deep Meta Learning for Real-Time Target-Aware Visual Tracking." ICCV (2019).
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SPLT: Bin Yan, Haojie Zhao, Dong Wang, Huchuan Lu, Xiaoyun Yang 
"'Skimming-Perusal' Tracking: A Framework for Real-Time and Robust Long-Term Tracking." ICCV (2019).
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ARCF: Ziyuan Huang, Changhong Fu, Yiming Li, Fuling Lin, Peng Lu. 
"Learning Aberrance Repressed Correlation Filters for Real-Time UAV Tracking." ICCV (2019).
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Lianghua Huang, Xin Zhao, Kaiqi Huang. 
"Bridging the Gap Between Detection and Tracking: A Unified Approach." ICCV (2019).
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UpdateNet: Lichao Zhang, Abel Gonzalez-Garcia, Joost van de Weijer, Martin Danelljan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan. 
"Learning the Model Update for Siamese Trackers." ICCV (2019).
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PAT: Rey Reza Wiyatno, Anqi Xu. 
"Physical Adversarial Textures That Fool Visual Object Tracking." ICCV (2019).
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GFS-DCF: Tianyang Xu, Zhen-Hua Feng, Xiao-Jun Wu, Josef Kittler. 
"Joint Group Feature Selection and Discriminative Filter Learning for Robust Visual Object Tracking." ICCV (2019).
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CDTB: Alan Lukežič, Ugur Kart, Jani Käpylä, Ahmed Durmush, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Jiří Matas, Matej Kristan. 

"CDTB: A Color and Depth Visual Object Tracking Dataset and Benchmark." ICCV (2019).
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VOT2019: Kristan, Matej, et al. 
"The Seventh Visual Object Tracking VOT2019 Challenge Results." ICCV workshops (2019).
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CVPR2019

SiamMask: Qiang Wang, Li Zhang, Luca Bertinetto, Weiming Hu, Philip H.S. Torr. 
"Fast Online Object Tracking and Segmentation: A Unifying Approach." CVPR (2019).
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SiamRPN++: Bo Li, Wei Wu, Qiang Wang, Fangyi Zhang, Junliang Xing, Junjie Yan. 
"SiamRPN++: Evolution of Siamese Visual Tracking with Very Deep Networks." CVPR (2019 oral).
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ATOM: Martin Danelljan, Goutam Bhat, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Michael Felsberg. 
"ATOM: Accurate Tracking by Overlap Maximization." CVPR (2019 oral).
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SiamDW: Zhipeng Zhang, Houwen Peng. 
"Deeper and Wider Siamese Networks for Real-Time Visual Tracking." CVPR (2019 oral).
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GCT: Junyu Gao, Tianzhu Zhang, Changsheng Xu. 
"Graph Convolutional Tracking." CVPR (2019 oral).
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ASRCF: Kenan Dai, Dong Wang, Huchuan Lu, Chong Sun, Jianhua Li. 
"Visual Tracking via Adaptive Spatially-Regularized Correlation Filters." CVPR (2019 oral).
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UDT: Ning Wang, Yibing Song, Chao Ma, Wengang Zhou, Wei Liu, Houqiang Li. 
"Unsupervised Deep Tracking." CVPR (2019).
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TADT: Xin Li, Chao Ma, Baoyuan Wu, Zhenyu He, Ming-Hsuan Yang. 
"Target-Aware Deep Tracking." CVPR (2019).
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C-RPN: Heng Fan, Haibin Ling. 
"Siamese Cascaded Region Proposal Networks for Real-Time Visual Tracking." CVPR (2019).
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SPM: Guangting Wang, Chong Luo, Zhiwei Xiong, Wenjun Zeng. 
"SPM-Tracker: Series-Parallel Matching for Real-Time Visual Object Tracking." CVPR (2019).
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OTR: Ugur Kart, Alan Lukezic, Matej Kristan, Joni-Kristian Kamarainen, Jiri Matas. 
"Object Tracking by Reconstruction with View-Specific Discriminative Correlation Filters." CVPR (2019).
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RPCF: Yuxuan Sun, Chong Sun, Dong Wang, Huchuan Lu, You He. 
"ROI Pooled Correlation Filters for Visual Tracking." CVPR (2019).
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LaSOT: Heng Fan, Liting Lin, Fan Yang, Peng Chu, Ge Deng, Sijia Yu, Hexin Bai, Yong Xu, Chunyuan Liao, Haibin Ling. 
"LaSOT: A High-quality Benchmark for Large-scale Single Object Tracking." CVPR (2019).
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AAAI2019

LDES: Yang Li, Jianke Zhu, Steven C.H. Hoi, Wenjie Song, Zhefeng Wang, Hantang Liu. 
"Robust Estimation of Similarity Transformation for Visual Object Tracking." AAAI (2019).
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NIPS2018

DAT: Shi Pu, Yibing Song, Chao Ma, Honggang Zhang, Ming-Hsuan Yang. 
"Deep Attentive Tracking via Reciprocative Learning." NIPS (2018).
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ECCV2018

UPDT: Goutam Bhat, Joakim Johnander, Martin Danelljan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Michael Felsberg. 
"Unveiling the Power of Deep Tracking." ECCV (2018).
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DaSiamRPN: Zheng Zhu, Qiang Wang, Bo Li, Wu Wei, Junjie Yan, Weiming Hu. 
"Distractor-aware Siamese Networks for Visual Object Tracking." ECCV (2018).
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SACF: Mengdan Zhang, Qiang Wang, Junliang Xing, Jin Gao, Peixi Peng, Weiming Hu, Steve Maybank. 
"Visual Tracking via Spatially Aligned Correlation Filters Network." ECCV (2018).
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RTINet: Yingjie Yao, Xiaohe Wu, Lei Zhang, Shiguang Shan, Wangmeng Zuo. 
"Joint Representation and Truncated Inference Learning for Correlation Filter based Tracking." ECCV (2018).
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Meta-Tracker: Eunbyung Park, Alexander C. Berg. 
"Meta-Tracker: Fast and Robust Online Adaptation for Visual Object Trackers."
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DSLT: Xiankai Lu, Chao Ma*, Bingbing Ni, Xiaokang Yang, Ian Reid, Ming-Hsuan Yang. 
"Deep Regression Tracking with Shrinkage Loss." ECCV (2018).
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DRL-IS: Liangliang Ren, Xin Yuan, Jiwen Lu, Ming Yang, Jie Zhou. 
"Deep Reinforcement Learning with Iterative Shift for Visual Tracking." ECCV (2018).
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RT-MDNet: Ilchae Jung, Jeany Son, Mooyeol Baek, Bohyung Han. 
"Real-Time MDNet." ECCV (2018).
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ACT: Boyu Chen, Dong Wang, Peixia Li, Huchuan Lu. 
"Real-time 'Actor-Critic' Tracking." ECCV (2018).
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StructSiam: Yunhua Zhang, Lijun Wang, Dong Wang, Mengyang Feng, Huchuan Lu, Jinqing Qi. 
"Structured Siamese Network for Real-Time Visual Tracking." ECCV (2018).
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MemTrack: Tianyu Yang, Antoni B. Chan. 
"Learning Dynamic Memory Networks for Object Tracking." ECCV (2018).
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SiamFC-tri: Xingping Dong, Jianbing Shen. 
"Triplet Loss in Siamese Network for Object Tracking." ECCV (2018).
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OxUvA long-term dataset+benchmark: Jack Valmadre, Luca Bertinetto, João F. Henriques, Ran Tao, Andrea Vedaldi, Arnold Smeulders, Philip Torr, Efstratios Gavves. 
"Long-term Tracking in the Wild: a Benchmark." ECCV (2018).
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TrackingNet: Matthias Müller, Adel Bibi, Silvio Giancola, Salman Al-Subaihi, Bernard Ghanem. 
"TrackingNet: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Object Tracking in the Wild." ECCV (2018).
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CVPR2018

VITAL: Yibing Song, Chao Ma, Xiaohe Wu, Lijun Gong, Linchao Bao, Wangmeng Zuo, Chunhua Shen, Rynson Lau, and Ming-Hsuan Yang.
"VITAL: VIsual Tracking via Adversarial Learning." CVPR (2018 Spotlight).
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LSART: Chong Sun, Dong Wang, Huchuan Lu, Ming-Hsuan Yang.
"Learning Spatial-Aware Regressions for Visual Tracking." CVPR (2018 Spotlight).
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SiamRPN: Bo Li, Wei Wu, Zheng Zhu, Junjie Yan.
"High Performance Visual Tracking with Siamese Region Proposal Network." CVPR (2018 Spotlight).
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TRACA: Jongwon Choi, Hyung Jin Chang, Tobias Fischer, Sangdoo Yun, Kyuewang Lee, Jiyeoup Jeong, Yiannis Demiris, Jin Young Choi.
"Context-aware Deep Feature Compression for High-speed Visual Tracking." CVPR (2018).
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RASNet: Qiang Wang, Zhu Teng, Junliang Xing, Jin Gao, Weiming Hu, Stephen Maybank.
"Learning Attentions: Residual Attentional Siamese Network for High Performance Online Visual Tracking." CVPR 2018.
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SA-Siam: Anfeng He, Chong Luo, Xinmei Tian, Wenjun Zeng.
"A Twofold Siamese Network for Real-Time Object Tracking." CVPR (2018).
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STRCF: Feng Li, Cheng Tian, Wangmeng Zuo, Lei Zhang, Ming-Hsuan Yang.
"Learning Spatial-Temporal Regularized Correlation Filters for Visual Tracking." CVPR (2018).
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FlowTrack: Zheng Zhu, Wei Wu, Wei Zou, Junjie Yan.
"End-to-end Flow Correlation Tracking with Spatial-temporal Attention." CVPR (2018).
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DEDT: Kourosh Meshgi, Shigeyuki Oba, Shin Ishii.
"Efficient Diverse Ensemble for Discriminative Co-Tracking." CVPR (2018).
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SINT++: Xiao Wang, Chenglong Li, Bin Luo, Jin Tang.
"SINT++: Robust Visual Tracking via Adversarial Positive Instance Generation." CVPR (2018).
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DRT: Chong Sun, Dong Wang, Huchuan Lu, Ming-Hsuan Yang.
"Correlation Tracking via Joint Discrimination and Reliability Learning." CVPR (2018).
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MCCT: Ning Wang, Wengang Zhou, Qi Tian, Richang Hong, Meng Wang, Houqiang Li.
"Multi-Cue Correlation Filters for Robust Visual Tracking." CVPR (2018).
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MKCF: Ming Tang, Bin Yu, Fan Zhang, Jinqiao Wang.
"High-speed Tracking with Multi-kernel Correlation Filters." CVPR (2018).
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HP: Xingping Dong, Jianbing Shen, Wenguan Wang, Yu, Liu, Ling Shao, and Fatih Porikli.
"Hyperparameter Optimization for Tracking with Continuous Deep Q-Learning." CVPR (2018).
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NIPS2017

HART: Adam R. Kosiorek, Alex Bewley, Ingmar Posner.
"Hierarchical Attentive Recurrent Tracking." NIPS (2017).
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ICCV2017

CREST: Yibing Song, Chao Ma, Lijun Gong, Jiawei Zhang, Rynson Lau, Ming-Hsuan Yang.
"CREST: Convolutional Residual Learning for Visual Tracking." ICCV (2017 Spotlight).
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EAST: Chen Huang, Simon Lucey, Deva Ramanan.
"Learning Policies for Adaptive Tracking with Deep Feature Cascades." ICCV (2017 Spotlight).
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PTAV: Heng Fan and Haibin Ling.
"Parallel Tracking and Verifying: A Framework for Real-Time and High Accuracy Visual Tracking." ICCV (2017).
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BACF: Hamed Kiani Galoogahi, Ashton Fagg, Simon Lucey.
"Learning Background-Aware Correlation Filters for Visual Tracking." ICCV (2017).
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TSN: Zhu Teng, Junliang Xing, Qiang Wang, Congyan Lang, Songhe Feng and Yi Jin.
"Robust Object Tracking based on Temporal and Spatial Deep Networks." ICCV (2017).
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p-tracker: James Supančič, III; Deva Ramanan.
"Tracking as Online Decision-Making: Learning a Policy From Streaming Videos With Reinforcement Learning." ICCV (2017).
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DSiam: Qing Guo; Wei Feng; Ce Zhou; Rui Huang; Liang Wan; Song Wang.
"Learning Dynamic Siamese Network for Visual Object Tracking." ICCV (2017).
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SP-KCF: Xin Sun; Ngai-Man Cheung; Hongxun Yao; Yiluan Guo.
"Non-Rigid Object Tracking via Deformable Patches Using Shape-Preserved KCF and Level Sets." ICCV (2017).
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UCT: Zheng Zhu, Guan Huang, Wei Zou, Dalong Du, Chang Huang.
"UCT: Learning Unified Convolutional Networks for Real-Time Visual Tracking." ICCV workshop (2017).
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Tobias Bottger, Patrick Follmann.
"The Benefits of Evaluating Tracker Performance Using Pixel-Wise Segmentations." ICCV workshop (2017).
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CFWCR: Zhiqun He, Yingruo Fan, Junfei Zhuang, Yuan Dong, HongLiang Bai.
"Correlation Filters With Weighted Convolution Responses." ICCV workshop (2017).
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IBCCF: Feng Li, Yingjie Yao, Peihua Li, David Zhang, Wangmeng Zuo, Ming-Hsuan Yang.
"Integrating Boundary and Center Correlation Filters for Visual Tracking With Aspect Ratio Variation." ICCV workshop (2017).
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RFL: Tianyu Yang, Antoni B. Chan.
"Recurrent Filter Learning for Visual Tracking." ICCV workshop (2017).
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CVPR2017

ECO: Martin Danelljan, Goutam Bhat, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Michael Felsberg.
"ECO: Efficient Convolution Operators for Tracking." CVPR (2017).
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CFNet: Jack Valmadre, Luca Bertinetto, João F. Henriques, Andrea Vedaldi, Philip H. S. Torr.
"End-to-end representation learning for Correlation Filter based tracking." CVPR (2017).
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CACF: Matthias Mueller, Neil Smith, Bernard Ghanem.
"Context-Aware Correlation Filter Tracking." CVPR (2017 oral).
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RaF: Le Zhang, Jagannadan Varadarajan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Narendra Ahuja and Pierre Moulin
"Robust Visual Tracking Using Oblique Random Forests." CVPR (2017).
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MCPF: Tianzhu Zhang, Changsheng Xu, Ming-Hsuan Yang.
"Multi-Task Correlation Particle Filter for Robust Object Tracking." CVPR (2017).
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ACFN: Jongwon Choi, Hyung Jin Chang, Sangdoo Yun, Tobias Fischer, Yiannis Demiris, and Jin Young Choi.
"Attentional Correlation Filter Network for Adaptive Visual Tracking." CVPR (2017).
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LMCF: Mengmeng Wang, Yong Liu, Zeyi Huang.
"Large Margin Object Tracking with Circulant Feature Maps." CVPR (2017).
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ADNet: Sangdoo Yun, Jongwon Choi, Youngjoon Yoo, Kimin Yun, Jin Young Choi.
"Action-Decision Networks for Visual Tracking with Deep Reinforcement Learning." CVPR (2017 Spotlight).
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CSR-DCF: Alan Lukežič, Tomáš Vojíř, Luka Čehovin, Jiří Matas, Matej Kristan.
"Discriminative Correlation Filter with Channel and Spatial Reliability." CVPR (2017).
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BranchOut: Bohyung Han, Jack Sim, Hartwig Adam.
"BranchOut: Regularization for Online Ensemble Tracking with Convolutional Neural Networks." CVPR (2017).
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AMCT: Donghun Yeo, Jeany Son, Bohyung Han, Joonhee Han.
"Superpixel-based Tracking-by-Segmentation using Markov Chains." CVPR (2017).
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SANet: Heng Fan, Haibin Ling.
"SANet: Structure-Aware Network for Visual Tracking." CVPRW (2017).
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ECCV2016

SiameseFC: Luca Bertinetto, Jack Valmadre, João F. Henriques, Andrea Vedaldi, Philip H.S. Torr.
"Fully-Convolutional Siamese Networks for Object Tracking." ECCV workshop (2016).
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GOTURN: David Held, Sebastian Thrun, Silvio Savarese.
"Learning to Track at 100 FPS with Deep Regression Networks." ECCV (2016).
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C-COT: Martin Danelljan, Andreas Robinson, Fahad Khan, Michael Felsberg.
"Beyond Correlation Filters: Learning Continuous Convolution Operators for Visual Tracking." ECCV (2016).
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CF+AT: Adel Bibi, Matthias Mueller, and Bernard Ghanem.
"Target Response Adaptation for Correlation Filter Tracking." ECCV (2016).
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Yao Sui, Ziming Zhang, Guanghui Wang, Yafei Tang, Li Zhang.
"Real-Time Visual Tracking: Promoting the Robustness of Correlation Filter Learning." ECCV (2016).
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Yao Sui, Guanghui Wang, Yafei Tang, Li Zhang.
"Tracking Completion." ECCV (2016).
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CVPR2016

MDNet: Nam, Hyeonseob, and Bohyung Han.
"Learning Multi-Domain Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Tracking." CVPR (2016).
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[VOT_presentation]
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SINT: Ran Tao, Efstratios Gavves, Arnold W.M. Smeulders.
"Siamese Instance Search for Tracking." CVPR (2016).
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SCT: Jongwon Choi, Hyung Jin Chang, Jiyeoup Jeong, Yiannis Demiris, and Jin Young Choi.
"Visual Tracking Using Attention-Modulated Disintegration and Integration." CVPR (2016).
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STCT: Lijun Wang, Wanli Ouyang, Xiaogang Wang, and Huchuan Lu.
"STCT: Sequentially Training Convolutional Networks for Visual Tracking." CVPR (2016).
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SRDCFdecon: Martin Danelljan, Gustav Häger, Fahad Khan, Michael Felsberg.
"Adaptive Decontamination of the Training Set: A Unified Formulation for Discriminative Visual Tracking." CVPR (2016).
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HDT: Yuankai Qi, Shengping Zhang, Lei Qin, Hongxun Yao, Qingming Huang, Jongwoo Lim, Ming-Hsuan Yang.
"Hedged Deep Tracking." CVPR (2016).
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Staple: Luca Bertinetto, Jack Valmadre, Stuart Golodetz, Ondrej Miksik, Philip H.S. Torr.
"Staple: Complementary Learners for Real-Time Tracking." CVPR (2016).
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EBT: Gao Zhu, Fatih Porikli, and Hongdong Li.
"Beyond Local Search: Tracking Objects Everywhere with Instance-Specific Proposals." CVPR (2016).
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DLSSVM: Jifeng Ning, Jimei Yang, Shaojie Jiang, Lei Zhang and Ming-Hsuan Yang.
"Object Tracking via Dual Linear Structured SVM and Explicit Feature Map." CVPR (2016).
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NIPS2016

Learnet: Luca Bertinetto, João F. Henriques, Jack Valmadre, Philip H. S. Torr, Andrea Vedaldi.
"Learning feed-forward one-shot learners." NIPS (2016).
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ICCV2015

FCNT: Lijun Wang, Wanli Ouyang, Xiaogang Wang, and Huchuan Lu.
"Visual Tracking with Fully Convolutional Networks." ICCV (2015).
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SRDCF: Martin Danelljan, Gustav Häger, Fahad Khan, Michael Felsberg.
"Learning Spatially Regularized Correlation Filters for Visual Tracking." ICCV (2015).
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CF2: Chao Ma, Jia-Bin Huang, Xiaokang Yang and Ming-Hsuan Yang.
"Hierarchical Convolutional Features for Visual Tracking." ICCV (2015)
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Naiyan Wang, Jianping Shi, Dit-Yan Yeung and Jiaya Jia.
"Understanding and Diagnosing Visual Tracking Systems." ICCV (2015).
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DeepSRDCF: Martin Danelljan, Gustav Häger, Fahad Khan, Michael Felsberg.
"Convolutional Features for Correlation Filter Based Visual Tracking." ICCV workshop (2015).
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RAJSSC: Mengdan Zhang, Junliang Xing, Jin Gao, Xinchu Shi, Qiang Wang, Weiming Hu.
"Joint Scale-Spatial Correlation Tracking with Adaptive Rotation Estimation." ICCV workshop (2015).
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CVPR2015

MUSTer: Zhibin Hong, Zhe Chen, Chaohui Wang, Xue Mei, Danil Prokhorov, Dacheng Tao.
"MUlti-Store Tracker (MUSTer): A Cognitive Psychology Inspired Approach to Object Tracking." CVPR (2015).
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LCT: Chao Ma, Xiaokang Yang, Chongyang Zhang, Ming-Hsuan Yang.
"Long-term Correlation Tracking." CVPR (2015).
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DAT: Horst Possegger, Thomas Mauthner, and Horst Bischof.
"In Defense of Color-based Model-free Tracking." CVPR (2015).
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RPT: Yang Li, Jianke Zhu and Steven C.H. Hoi.
"Reliable Patch Trackers: Robust Visual Tracking by Exploiting Reliable Patches." CVPR (2015).
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ICML2015

CNN-SVM: Seunghoon Hong, Tackgeun You, Suha Kwak and Bohyung Han.
"Online Tracking by Learning Discriminative Saliency Map with Convolutional Neural Network ." ICML (2015)
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BMVC2014

DSST: Martin Danelljan, Gustav Häger, Fahad Shahbaz Khan and Michael Felsberg.
"Accurate Scale Estimation for Robust Visual Tracking." BMVC (2014).
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[PAMI]
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ECCV2014

MEEM: Jianming Zhang, Shugao Ma, and Stan Sclaroff.
"MEEM: Robust Tracking via Multiple Experts using Entropy Minimization." ECCV (2014).
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TGPR: Jin Gao, Haibin Ling, Weiming Hu, Junliang Xing.
"Transfer Learning Based Visual Tracking with Gaussian Process Regression." ECCV (2014).
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STC: Kaihua Zhang, Lei Zhang, Ming-Hsuan Yang, David Zhang.
"Fast Tracking via Spatio-Temporal Context Learning." ECCV (2014).
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SAMF: Yang Li, Jianke Zhu.
"A Scale Adaptive Kernel Correlation Filter Tracker with Feature Integration." ECCV workshop (2014).
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NIPS2013

DLT: Naiyan Wang and Dit-Yan Yeung.
"Learning A Deep Compact Image Representation for Visual Tracking." NIPS (2013).
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PAMI & IJCV & TIP

AOGTracker: Tianfu Wu , Yang Lu and Song-Chun Zhu.
"Online Object Tracking, Learning and Parsing with And-Or Graphs." TPAMI (2017).
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MCPF: Tianzhu Zhang, Changsheng Xu, Ming-Hsuan Yang.
" Learning Multi-task Correlation Particle Filters for Visual Tracking." TPAMI (2017).
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RSST: Tianzhu Zhang, Changsheng Xu, Ming-Hsuan Yang.
" Robust Structural Sparse Tracking." TPAMI (2017).
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fDSST: Martin Danelljan, Gustav Häger, Fahad Khan, Michael Felsberg.
"Discriminative Scale Space Tracking." TPAMI (2017).
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KCF: João F. Henriques, Rui Caseiro, Pedro Martins, Jorge Batista.
"High-Speed Tracking with Kernelized Correlation Filters." TPAMI (2015).
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CLRST: Tianzhu Zhang, Si Liu, Narendra Ahuja, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Bernard Ghanem.
"Robust Visual Tracking Via Consistent Low-Rank Sparse Learning." IJCV (2015).
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DNT: Zhizhen Chi, Hongyang Li, Huchuan Lu, Ming-Hsuan Yang.
"Dual Deep Network for Visual Tracking." TIP (2017).
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DRT: Junyu Gao, Tianzhu Zhang, Xiaoshan Yang, Changsheng Xu.
"Deep Relative Tracking." TIP (2017).
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BIT: Bolun Cai, Xiangmin Xu, Xiaofen Xing, Kui Jia, Jie Miao, Dacheng Tao.
"BIT: Biologically Inspired Tracker." TIP (2016).
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[project]
[github]
CNT: Kaihua Zhang, Qingshan Liu, Yi Wu, Minghsuan Yang.
"Robust Visual Tracking via Convolutional Networks Without Training." TIP (2016).
[paper]
[code]

ArXiv

MLT: Janghoon Choi, Junseok Kwon, Kyoung Mu Lee.
"Deep Meta Learning for Real-Time Visual Tracking based on Target-Specific Feature Space." arXiv (2017).
[paper]
STECF: Yang Li, Jianke Zhu, Wenjie Song, Zhefeng Wang, Hantang Liu, Steven C. H. Hoi.
"Robust Estimation of Similarity Transformation for Visual Object Tracking with Correlation Filters." arXiv (2017).
[paper]
PAWSS: Xiaofei Du, Alessio Dore, Danail Stoyanov.
"Patch-based adaptive weighting with segmentation and scale (PAWSS) for visual tracking." arXiv (2017).
[paper]
SFT: Zhen Cui, You yi Cai, Wen ming Zheng, Jian Yang.
"Spectral Filter Tracking." arXiv (2017).
[paper]
Re3: Daniel Gordon, Ali Farhadi, Dieter Fox.
"Re3 : Real-Time Recurrent Regression Networks for Object Tracking." arXiv (2017).
[paper]
DCFNet: Qiang Wang, Jin Gao, Junliang Xing, Mengdan Zhang, Weiming Hu.
"DCFNet: Discriminant Correlation Filters Network for Visual Tracking." arXiv (2017).
[paper]
[code]
TCNN: Hyeonseob Nam, Mooyeol Baek, Bohyung Han.
"Modeling and Propagating CNNs in a Tree Structure for Visual Tracking." arXiv (2016).
[paper]
[code]
RDT: Janghoon Choi, Junseok Kwon, Kyoung Mu Lee.
"Visual Tracking by Reinforced Decision Making." arXiv (2017).
[paper]
MSDAT: Xinyu Wang, Hanxi Li, Yi Li, Fumin Shen, Fatih Porikli .
"Robust and Real-time Deep Tracking Via Multi-Scale Domain Adaptation." arXiv (2017).
[paper]
RLT: Da Zhang, Hamid Maei, Xin Wang, Yuan-Fang Wang.
"Deep Reinforcement Learning for Visual Object Tracking in Videos." arXiv (2017).
[paper]
SCF: Wangmeng Zuo, Xiaohe Wu, Liang Lin, Lei Zhang, Ming-Hsuan Yang.
"Learning Support Correlation Filters for Visual Tracking." arXiv (2016).
[paper]
[project]
CRT: Kai Chen, Wenbing Tao.
"Convolutional Regression for Visual Tracking." arXiv (2016).
[paper]
BMR: Kaihua Zhang, Qingshan Liu, and Ming-Hsuan Yang.
"Visual Tracking via Boolean Map Representations." arXiv (2016).
[paper]
YCNN: Kai Chen, Wenbing Tao.
"Once for All: a Two-flow Convolutional Neural Network for Visual Tracking." arXiv (2016).
[paper]
ROLO: Guanghan Ning, Zhi Zhang, Chen Huang, Zhihai He, Xiaobo Ren, Haohong Wang.
"Spatially Supervised Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Object Tracking." arXiv (2016).
[paper]
[project]
[github]
RATM: Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Vincent Michalski, Roland Memisevic.
"RATM: Recurrent Attentive Tracking Model." arXiv (2015).
[paper]
[github]
SO-DLT: Naiyan Wang, Siyi Li, Abhinav Gupta, Dit-Yan Yeung.
"Transferring Rich Feature Hierarchies for Robust Visual Tracking." arXiv (2015).
[paper]
[code]
DMSRDCF: Susanna Gladh, Martin Danelljan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Michael Felsberg.
"Deep Motion Features for Visual Tracking." ICPR Best Paper (2016).
[paper]

Benchmark

LaSOT: Heng Fan, Liting Lin, Fan Yang, Peng Chu, Ge Deng, Sijia Yu, Hexin Bai, Yong Xu, Chunyuan Liao, Haibin Ling.
"Deep Meta Learning for Real-Time Visual Tracking based on Target-Specific Feature Space." arXiv (2018).
[paper]
[project]
OxUvA long-term dataset+benchmark: Jack Valmadre, Luca Bertinetto, João F. Henriques, Ran Tao, Andrea Vedaldi, Arnold Smeulders, Philip Torr, Efstratios Gavves. 
"Long-term Tracking in the Wild: a Benchmark." ECCV (2018).
[paper]
[project]
TrackingNet: Matthias Müller, Adel Bibi, Silvio Giancola, Salman Al-Subaihi, Bernard Ghanem. 
"TrackingNet: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Object Tracking in the Wild." ECCV (2018).
[project]
[paper]
UAVDT: Dawei Du, Yuankai Qi, Hongyang Yu, Yifang Yang, Kaiwen Duan, GuoRong Li, Weigang Zhang, Weihai; Qingming Huang, Qi Tian. 
"The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Benchmark: Object Detection and Tracking." ECCV (2018).
[paper]
Dataset-AMP: Luka Čehovin Zajc; Alan Lukežič; Aleš Leonardis; Matej Kristan.
"Beyond Standard Benchmarks: Parameterizing Performance Evaluation in Visual Object Tracking." ICCV (2017).
[paper]
Dataset-Nfs: Hamed Kiani Galoogahi, Ashton Fagg, Chen Huang, Deva Ramanan and Simon Lucey.
"Need for Speed: A Benchmark for Higher Frame Rate Object Tracking." ICCV (2017)
[paper]
[supp]
[project]
Dataset-DTB70: Siyi Li, Dit-Yan Yeung.
"Visual Object Tracking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Benchmark and New Motion Models." AAAI (2017)
[paper]
[project]
[dataset]
Dataset-UAV123: Matthias Mueller, Neil Smith and Bernard Ghanem.
"A Benchmark and Simulator for UAV Tracking." ECCV (2016)
[paper]
[project]
[dataset]
Dataset-TColor-128: Pengpeng Liang, Erik Blasch, Haibin Ling.
"Encoding color information for visual tracking: Algorithms and benchmark." TIP (2015)
[paper]
[project]
[dataset]
Dataset-NUS-PRO: Annan Li, Min Lin, Yi Wu, Ming-Hsuan Yang, and Shuicheng Yan.
"NUS-PRO: A New Visual Tracking Challenge." PAMI (2015)
[paper]
[project]
[Data_360(code:bf28)]
[Data_baidu]]
[View_360(code:515a)]
[View_baidu]]
Dataset-PTB: Shuran Song and Jianxiong Xiao.
"Tracking Revisited using RGBD Camera: Unified Benchmark and Baselines." ICCV (2013)
[paper]
[project]
[5 validation]
[95 evaluation]
Dataset-ALOV300+: Arnold W. M. Smeulders, Dung M. Chu, Rita Cucchiara, Simone Calderara, Afshin Dehghan, Mubarak Shah.
"Visual Tracking: An Experimental Survey." PAMI (2014)
[paper]
[project]
Mirror Link:ALOV300++ Dataset
Mirror Link:ALOV300++ Groundtruth
OTB2013: Wu, Yi, Jongwoo Lim, and Minghsuan Yang.
"Online Object Tracking: A Benchmark." CVPR (2013).
[paper]
OTB2015: Wu, Yi, Jongwoo Lim, and Minghsuan Yang.
"Object Tracking Benchmark." TPAMI (2015).
[paper]
[project]
Dataset-VOT:
[project]

[VOT13_paper_ICCV]The Visual Object Tracking VOT2013 challenge results

[VOT14_paper_ECCV]The Visual Object Tracking VOT2014 challenge results

[VOT15_paper_ICCV]The Visual Object Tracking VOT2015 challenge results

[VOT16_paper_ECCV]The Visual Object Tracking VOT2016 challenge results

[VOT17_paper_ICCV]The Visual Object Tracking VOT2017 challenge results

Distinguished Researchers & Teams

Distinguished visual tracking researchers who have published +3 papers which have a major impact on the field of visual tracking and are still active in the field of visual tracking.(Names listed in no particular order.)