Target Focused Shallow Transformer Framework for Efficient Visual Tracking

Abstract Template learning transformer trackers have achieved significant performance improvement recently due to the longdependency learning using the self-attention (SA) mechanism. However, the typical SA mechanisms in transformers adopt a less discriminative design approach which is inadequate for focusing on the most important target information during tracking. Therefore, existing trackers are easily distracted by background information and have constraints in handling tracking challenges. The focus of our research is to develop a target-focused discriminative shallow transformer tracking framework that can learn to distinguish the target from the background and enable accurate tracking with fast speed. Extensive experiments will be performed on several popular benchmarks, including OTB100, UAV123, GOT10k, LaSOT, and TrackingNet, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.