C++ KCF Tracker
This package includes a C++ class with several tracking methods based on the Kernelized Correlation Filter (KCF) [1, 2].
It also includes an executable to interface with the VOT benchmark.
[1] J. F. Henriques, R. Caseiro, P. Martins, J. Batista,
"High-Speed Tracking with Kernelized Correlation Filters", TPAMI 2015.
[2] J. F. Henriques, R. Caseiro, P. Martins, J. Batista,
"Exploiting the Circulant Structure of Tracking-by-detection with Kernels", ECCV 2012.
Authors: Joao Faro, Christian Bailer, Joao F. Henriques
Contacts: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Institute of Systems and Robotics - University of Coimbra / Department of Augmented Vision DFKI
Algorithms (in this folder)
"KCFC++", command: ./KCF
Description: KCF on HOG features, ported to C++ OpenCV. The original Matlab tracker placed 3rd in VOT 2014.
"KCFLabC++", command: ./KCF lab
Description: KCF on HOG and Lab features, ported to C++ OpenCV. The Lab features are computed by quantizing CIE-Lab colors into 15 centroids, obtained from natural images by k-means.
The CSK tracker [2] is also implemented as a bonus, simply by using raw grayscale as features (the filter becomes single-channel).
Compilation instructions
There are no external dependencies other than OpenCV 3.0.0. Tested on a freshly installed Ubuntu 14.04.
- cmake CMakeLists.txt
- make
Running instructions
The runtracker.cpp is prepared to be used with the VOT toolkit. The executable "KCF" should be called as:
./KCF [OPTION_1] [OPTION_2] [...]
Options available:
gray - Use raw gray level features as in [1].
hog - Use HOG features as in [2].
lab - Use Lab colorspace features. This option will also enable HOG features by default.
singlescale - Performs single-scale detection, using a variable-size window.
fixed_window - Keep the window size fixed when in single-scale mode (multi-scale always used a fixed window).
show - Show the results in a window.
To include it in your project, without the VOT toolkit you just need to:
// Create the KCFTracker object with one of the available options
KCFTracker tracker(HOG, FIXEDWINDOW, MULTISCALE, LAB);
// Give the first frame and the position of the object to the tracker
tracker.init( Rect(xMin, yMin, width, height), frame );
// Get the position of the object for the new frame
result = tracker.update(frame);