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Staple tracker

Code for the method described in the paper Staple: Complementary Learners for Real-Time Tracking, by Luca Bertinetto, Jack Valmadre, Stuart Golodetz, Ondrej Miksik and Philip Torr (University of Oxford) - appeared at CVPR 2016.

Contacts

For questions about the code or the paper, feel free contact us. You can find more info at the project page: http://robots.ox.ac.uk/~luca/staple.html

Please cite


@InProceedings{Bertinetto_2016_CVPR,
author = {Bertinetto, Luca and Valmadre, Jack and Golodetz, Stuart and Miksik, Ondrej and Torr, Philip H. S.},
title = {Staple: Complementary Learners for Real-Time Tracking},
booktitle = {The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month = {June},
year = {2016}
}

Prerequisites

The code is mostly in MATLAB, except the workhorse of fhog.m, which is written in C and comes from Piotr Dollar toolbox http://vision.ucsd.edu/~pdollar/toolbox
To use the webcam mode (runTracker_webcam), install MATLAB's webcam support from http://mathworks.com/hardware-support/matlab-webcam.html

Modes

runTracker(sequence, start_frame) runs the tracker on sequence from start_frame onwards.
runTracker_webcam starts an interactive webcam demo.
runTracker_VOT and run_Staple run the tracker within the benchmarks VOT and OTB respectively.

Format

For runTracker(sequence, start_frame), make sure the directory tree looks like the following:

- staple/
    - runTracker.m
    - thisTracker.m
    - ... 

- Sequences/
    - ball/
    - bicycle/
    - (any other sequence with the specified format)

Each sequence folder should have the following structure

<sequence_name>/
- imgs/
  - 00000000.jpg (must be 8digit, any img format allowed)
  - 00000001.jpg
  - ...
- groundtruth.txt
- <sequence_name>_frames.txt

<sequence_name>_frames.txt contains the interval of frames to track
groundtruth.txt contains the per frame annotation. The ground truth bounding box can be expressed as a polygon, i.e. <x1>,<y1>,<x2>,<y2>,<x3>,<y3>,<x4>,<y4>, or as an axis-aligned bounding box, i.e.<top-x>,<top-y>,<width>,<height>

F.A.Q.

How can I compile mexResize ? gradientMex and mexResize have been compiled and tested for Ubuntu, Windows 8 (64 bit) and macOS(Sierra). You can easily recompile the sources in case of need. I have compiled mexResize following the instructions in Martin's old code for DSST. You can find it here http://www.cvl.isy.liu.se/research/objrec/visualtracking/scalvistrack/index.html - just open the archive and run compilemex.m or compilemex_win.m

How can I reproduce the exact same results of the paper?