Abstract:Aiming at the problem of tracking failure caused by out of view and occlusion in object tracking with kernelized correlation filters (KCF), a long-term tracking approach based on KCF is proposed. Firstly, the features of both gradient histogram and color namination are fused to enhance the expression ability of the features. Then, considering that KCF can not deal with scale variation, and by defining a scale pool and collecting samples in different sizes, the response values are calculated. Thus the optimal position and scale of the object can be obtained according to the maximum response value. Finally, a support vector machine(SVM) classifier is trained to re-detect the target so as to achieve a long-term tracking. The proposed algorithm was compared with other tracking algorithms on the online object tracking benchmark (OTB), and the experimental results validate its effectiveness and superiority.