Exploring 3 R's of Long-term Tracking: Re-detection, Recovery and Reliability
This work addresses the need for better evaluation methodologies in long-term tracking for applications requiring robust performance, but it is incremental as it builds on existing benchmarks.
The paper tackles the problem of evaluating long-term visual trackers by proposing new evaluation strategies focusing on re-detection, recovery, and reliability, and presents original insights from extensive experiments.
Recent works have proposed several long term tracking benchmarks and highlight the importance of moving towards long-duration tracking to bridge the gap with application requirements. The current evaluation methodologies, however, do not focus on several aspects that are crucial in a long term perspective like Re-detection, Recovery, and Reliability. In this paper, we propose novel evaluation strategies for a more in-depth analysis of trackers from a long-term perspective. More specifically, (a) we test re-detection capability of the trackers in the wild by simulating virtual cuts, (b) we investigate the role of chance in the recovery of tracker after failure and (c) we propose a novel metric allowing visual inference on the ability of a tracker to track contiguously (without any failure) at a given accuracy. We present several original insights derived from an extensive set of quantitative and qualitative experiments.