A new hybrid tracking strategy based on Pulse Coupled Neural Network

Visual object tracking is a fundamental research topic in computer vision. In this paper, we proposed a novel hybrid tracking method based on Pulse Coupled Neural Network (PCNN) and Multiple Instance Learning (MIL). Most modern trackers may be inaccurate when the training samples are imprecise which causes drift. To resolve these problems, MIL method is introduced into the tracking task, which can alleviate drift to some extent. However, the MIL tracker may detect the positive sample that is less important. PCNN is different from traditional artificial neural networks, which can be applied in many image processing fields, such as image segmentation. So, the PCNN was employed as sample detector which can know the most important sample when training the classifier. Then, a more robust and much faster tracker is proposed to approximately maximize the bag likelihood function. Empirical results on a large set of sequences demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed approach in robustness, stability and efficiency to state-of-the-art methods in the literature.