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Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2024, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (6): 1357-1371.doi: 10.23919/JSEE.2023.000168

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  • 收稿日期:2022-08-16 接受日期:2023-12-13 出版日期:2024-12-18 发布日期:2025-01-14

A content-aware correlation filter with multi-feature fusion for RGB-T tracking

Zihang FENG1(), Liping YAN1,*(), Jinglan BAI1(), Yuanqing XIA1(), Bo XIAO2()   

  1. 1 School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
    2 School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • Received:2022-08-16 Accepted:2023-12-13 Online:2024-12-18 Published:2025-01-14
  • Contact: Liping YAN E-mail:3120185474@bit.edu.cn;ylp@bit.edu.cn;baijinglann@126.com;xia_yuanqing@bit.edu.cn;xiaobo@bupt.edu.cn
  • About author:
    FENG Zihang was born in 1997. He received his B.S. degree with the School of Automation from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2018, where he is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering with the School of Automation. His research interests include visual tracking and multimodality fusion. E-mail: 3120185474@bit.edu.cn

    YAN Liping was born in 1979. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Henan University, Kaifeng, China, in 2000 and 2003, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2007. From 2007 to 2009, she was a postdoctoral research associate with the Equipment Academy of Air Force, Beijing. Since 2009, she has been with the School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, first as assistant professor, from 2011 to 2021 as associate professor, then, since 2021, as a full professor. She has co-authored seven books and over 90 journal and conference papers. Her current research interests include multisensor data fusion, target tracking, fault detection, image registration, intelligent navigation, and integrated navigation. E-mail: ylp@bit.edu.cn

    BAI Jinglan was born in 1996. She received her B.S. degree in automation from Minzu University of China in 2018, and M.S. degree in control science and engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2021. Her research interests include image fusion and target tracking. E-mail: baijinglann@126.com

    XIA Yuanqing was born in 1971. He received his Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China, in 2001. During January 2002 to November 2003, he was a postdoctoral research associate with the Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. From November 2003 to February 2004, he was with the National University of Singapore as a research fellow, where he worked on variable structure control. Since 2004, he has been with the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing, where is currently a chair professor, as well as the dean of the School of Automation, BIT. Since October 2023, he has also benn with the Zhongyuan University of Technology (ZUT), zhengzhou, where he is currently the President of ZUT. His research interests include cloud control systems, networked control systems, robust control, signal processing, active disturbance rejection control, unmanned system control, and flight control. E-mail: xia_yuanqing@bit.edu.cn

    XIAO Bo was born in 1975. He received his B.S. degree in image transmission and processing, M.S. degree in computer science, and Ph.D. degree in signal and information processing from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 1998, 2006, and 2009, respectively. He was with the School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, from 1998 to 2020, where he has been an associate professor since 2010. From 2018 to 2019, he was a visiting scholar with the University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada. He has been with the School of Artificial Intelligence since 2020. His current research interests include data mining, data fusion, and pattern recognition. E-mail: xiaobo@bupt.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62073036;62076031) and Beijing Natural Science Foundation (4242049).

Abstract:

In challenging situations, such as low illumination, rain, and background clutter, the stability of the thermal infrared (TIR) spectrum can help red, green, blue (RGB) visible spectrum to improve tracking performance. However, the high-level image information and the modality-specific features have not been sufficiently studied. The proposed correlation filter uses the fused saliency content map to improve filter training and extracts different features of modalities. The fused content map is introduced into the spatial regularization term of correlation filter to highlight the training samples in the content region. Furthermore, the fused content map can avoid the incompleteness of the content region caused by challenging situations. Additionally, different features are extracted according to the modality characteristics and are fused by the designed response-level fusion strategy. The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm is used to solve the tracker training efficiently. Experiments on the large-scale benchmark datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed tracker compared to the state-of-the-art traditional trackers and the deep learning based trackers.

Key words: visual tracking, red, green, blue (RGB) and thermal infrared (TIR) tracking, correlation filter, content perception, multi-feature fusion