Instance transfer boosting for object tracking

In this paper, we propose an Instance Transfer Boosting (ITB) framework for object tracking. The proposed tracking framework tries to transfer prior knowledge from the first frame and frame t-2 regarded as source instance to frame t-1 approximately as target instance. Those instances build the online training classifier used in tracking-by-detection for frame t. The novel method presents the tracking task in the current frame from the knowledge transferred by the first frame and the previous two frames, resulting in a more robust tracker for distinguishing the object from the background. Experimental results on several public video sequences demonstrated promising performance of the proposed tracking framework in both tracking accuracy and stability.