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Tracking Holistic Object Representations

in BMVC 2019 [Project] [PDF] [Supplementary] [Video]

Axel Sauer*, Elie Aljalbout*, Sami Haddadin

Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, Technical University of Munich

If you use this implementation, please cite our BMVC 2019 paper.

@inproceedings{Sauer2019BMVC,
  author={Sauer, Axel and Aljalbout, Elie and Haddadin, Sami},
  title={Tracking Holistic Object Representations},
  booktitle={British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)},
  year={2019}
}

Installation

# install anaconda if you don't have it yet
wget https://repo.continuum.io/archive/Anaconda3-5.3.0-Linux-x86_64.sh
bash Anaconda3-5.3.0-Linux-x86_64.sh
source ~/.profile
# or use source ~/.bashrc - depending on where anaconda was added to PATH as the result of the installation

Clone the repo, build the environment and build the benchmark toolkits

git clone https://github.com/xl-sr/THOR.git
cd THOR

# create the conda environment
conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate THOR

# build the vot toolkits
bash benchmark/make_toolkits.sh

Get the Models

The .pth for SiamFC is already in the repo since it is small. The SiamRPN and SiamMask models need to be downloaded and moved to their respective subfolder.

SiamRPN

get model here → move to ./trackers/SiamRPN/model.pth

SiamMask

download the model and move to subfolder

wget http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~qwang/SiamMask_VOT.pth
mv SiamMask_VOT.pth trackers/SiamMask/model.pth

Get the Datasets

Run the download script to get the OTB2015 and VOT2018 datasets

cd data/
bash get_test_data.sh

Reproduce the benchmark results

To reproduce the benchmark results from the paper run for example:

# on VOT2018, with THOR (ensemble) enabled, using SiamRPN
python bench.py -d VOT2018 -t SiamRPN --lb_type ensemble

# on VOT2018, with THOR disabled, using SiamRPN
python bench.py -d VOT2018 -t SiamRPN --vanilla

Option
-d DATASET, --dataset DATASET	(Required) Dataset on which the benchmark is run [VOT2018, OTB2015]
-t TRACKER, --tracker TRACKER	(Required) Name of the tracker [SiamFC, SiamRPN, SiamMask]
--vanilla	Run the tracker without THOR
-v, --viz	Show the tracked scene, the stored templated and the modulated view
--verbose	Print additional info about THOR
--lb_type LOWER_BOUND	Specify the type of lower bound [dynamic, ensemble]
--spec_video VIDEO_NAME	Pick a specific video by name, e.g. "lemming" on OTB2015
--save_path PATH	Relative path where the tracked trajectory should be saved

Webcam demo

To run THOR on your webcam / camera, run the following command

# with THOR (ensemble) enabled, using SiamRPN
python webcam_demo.py --tracker SiamRPN

# with THOR disabled, using SiamRPN
python webcam_demo.py --tracker SiamRPN --vanilla

Option
-t TRACKER, --tracker TRACKER	(Required) Name of the tracker [SiamFC, SiamRPN, SiamMask]
--vanilla	Run the tracker without THOR
-v, --viz	Show the stored templated and the modulated view
--verbose	Print additional info about THOR
--lb_type LOWER_BOUND	Specify the type of lower bound [dynamic, ensemble]

Acknowledgments

The code (with some modifications) and models of the trackers are from the following linked repositories:

SiamFC, SiamRPN, SiamMask