Correlation Filter Based on Trajectory Correction and Context Interference Suppression for Real-Time UAV Tracking

The discriminative correlation filter (DCF) is commonly utilized in UAV tracking because of its high tracking accuracy and computing speed. However, in aerial tracking scenarios, challenges such as target occlusion and similar object interference are likely to cause the predicted object position to deviate from the correct motion trajectory. To alleviate this issue, this paper proposes a correlation filter algorithm based on trajectory correction and context interference suppression for real-time aerial tracking. First, a tracking quality evaluation metric is proposed to determine the confidence of the current tracking results. When the object is in a low confidence status, the state matrices of the object position and velocity are constructed, and the Kalman filter strategy is utilized to correct the tracking trajectory automatically. In addition, temporal context-response regularization is designed to fully exploit previous temporal information in order to suppress background interference. Extensive experimental results on four mainstream datasets demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has high tracking performance while achieving a real-time tracking speed of 32 fps on a single CPU.