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This paper proposes an online object tracking algorithm in which the object tracking is achieved by using multi-task sparse learning and non-negative matrix factorization under the particle filtering framework. The object appearance is first modeled by subspace learning to reflect the target variations across frames. Combination of non-negative components is learned from examples observed in previous frames. In order to robust tracking an object, group sparsity constraints are included to the non-negativity one. Furthermore, the alternating direction method of multipliers algorithm is employed to compute the model efficiently. Qualitative and quantitative experiments on a variety of challenging sequences show favorable performance of the proposed algorithm against state-of-the-art methods.
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Funding was provided by National Natural Science Foundation of China (CN) (Grant No. 61374161) and China Aviation Science Foundation (Grant No. 20142057006).
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Wang, Y., Luo, X., Ding, L. et al. Multi-task non-negative matrix factorization for visual object tracking. Pattern Anal Applic 23, 493–507 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10044-019-00812-4
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