Fully-Convolutional Siamese Networks for Object Tracking

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The code in this repository enables you to reproduce the experiments of our paper. It can be used in two ways: (1) tracking only and (2) training and tracking.

Project page: http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~luca/siamese-fc.html

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If you find our work and/or curated dataset useful, please cite:

@article{bertinetto2016fully,
  title={Fully-Convolutional Siamese Networks for Object Tracking},
  author={Bertinetto, Luca and Valmadre, Jack and Henriques, Jo{\~a}o F and Vedaldi, Andrea and Torr, Philip},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.09549},
  year={2016}
}

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1. [ Tracking only ] If you don't care much about training, simply plug one of our pretrained networks to our basic tracker and see it in action.

2. Prerequisites: GPU, CUDA drivers, cuDNN, Matlab (we used 2015b), MatConvNet (we used v1.0-beta20).

3. Clone the repository.

4. Download one of the pretrained networks from http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~luca/siamese-fc.html

5. Go to siam-fc/tracking/ and remove the trailing .example from env_paths_tracking.m.example, startup.m.example and run_tracking.m.example, editing the files as appropriate.

6. Be sure to have at least one video sequence in the appropriate format. You can find an example here in the repository (siam-fc/demo-sequences/vot15_bag).

7. siam-fc/tracking/run_tracking.m is the entry point to execute the tracker, have fun!

8. [ Training and tracking ] Well, if you prefer to train your own network, the process is slightly more involved (but also more fun).

9. Prerequisites: GPU, CUDA drivers, cuDNN, Matlab (we used 2015b), MatConvNet (we used v1.0-beta20).

10. Clone the repository.

11. Follow these step-by-step instructions, which will help you generating a curated dataset compatible with the rest of the code.

12. If you did not generate your own, download the imdb_video.mat (6.7GB) with all the metadata and the dataset stats.

13. Go to siam-fc/training/ and remove the trailing .example from env_paths.m.example, startup.m.example and run_experiment.m.example editing the files as appropriate.

14. siam-fc/training/run_experiment.m is the entry point to start training. Default hyper-params are at the start of experiment.m and can be overwritten by custom ones specified in run_experiment.m.

15. By default, training plots are saved in siam-fc/training/data/. When you are happy, grab a network snapshot (net-epoch-X.mat) and save it somewhere convenient to use it for tracking.

16. Go to point 1.iv. and enjoy the result of the labour of your own GPUs!