Planar Object Tracking in the Wild: A Benchmark
This provides a new benchmark for researchers in computer vision and robotics to evaluate planar object tracking algorithms in real-world conditions, though it is incremental as it builds on existing benchmarks.
The authors tackled the lack of planar object tracking benchmarks in natural environments by creating a new benchmark with 210 videos of 30 objects, annotated with ground truth, and evaluated 11 state-of-the-art algorithms using two metrics.
Planar object tracking is an actively studied problem in vision-based robotic applications. While several benchmarks have been constructed for evaluating state-of-the-art algorithms, there is a lack of video sequences captured in the wild rather than in constrained laboratory environment. In this paper, we present a carefully designed planar object tracking benchmark containing 210 videos of 30 planar objects sampled in the natural environment. In particular, for each object, we shoot seven videos involving various challenging factors, namely scale change, rotation, perspective distortion, motion blur, occlusion, out-of-view, and unconstrained. The ground truth is carefully annotated semi-manually to ensure the quality. Moreover, eleven state-of-the-art algorithms are evaluated on the benchmark using two evaluation metrics, with detailed analysis provided for the evaluation results. We expect the proposed benchmark to benefit future studies on planar object tracking.