Progressive Perception Learning for Distribution Modulation in Siamese Tracking

We explore an innovative view on distribution modulation to boost Siamese trackers. Specially, we observed two cases of possible distribution inconsistency in Siamese tracking: 1) Two branches with different sizes may be in different distribution ranges after a shared backbone (including BN layers). 2) The background data may affect the total feature distribution of the search branch. To address these issues, we proposed a plug-and-play component named Progressive Perception Learning Module (P2LM) to modulate the distribution using three feature normalization blocks successively, i.e., Self-Aware Block (SAB), Target-Aware Block (TAB), and Region-Aware Block (RAB). SAB regulates the distribution of each branch independently for the first issue. TAB uses the target information to guide the distribution adjustments of the two branches. RAB divides the search image into foreground and background with a region mask and normalizes them separately to filter the background distractors for robust tracking. TAB and RAB synergistically alleviate the distribution shifts caused by environmental variance. Experiments on OTB100, UAV123, LaSOT, and GOT-10k verify the compelling effects of our module.