Object tracking can be done in numerous ways, where the goal is to track a target through all frames in a sequence. The ground truth bounding box is used to initialize the object tracking algorithm. Object tracking can be carried out on infrared imagery suitable for military applications to execute tracking even without illumination. Objects, such as aircraft, can deploy countermeasures to impede tracking. The countermeasures most often mainly impact one wavelength band. Therefore, using two different wavelength bands for object tracking can counteract the impact of the countermeasures. The dataset was created from simulations. The countermeasures applied to the dataset are flares and Directional Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCMs). Different object tracking algorithms exist, and many are based on discriminative correlation filters (DCF). The thesis investigated the DCF-based trackers STRCF and ECO on the created dataset. The STRCF and the ECO trackers were analyzed using one and two wavelength bands. The following features were investigated for both trackers: grayscale, Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG), and pre-trained deep features. The results indicated that the STRCF and the ECO trackers using two wavelength bands instead of one improved performance on sequences with countermeasures. The use of HOG, deep features, or a combination of both improved the performance of the STRCF tracker using two wavelength bands. Likewise, the performance of the ECO tracker using two wavelength bands was improved by the use of deep features. However, the negative aspect of using two wavelength bands and introducing more features is that it resulted in a lower frame rate.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-186393 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Modorato, Sara |
| Publisher | Linköpings universitet, Datorseende |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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