Application of aircraft target tracking based on deep learning

Zhao Chunmei; Chen Zhongbi; Zhang Jianlin

doi:10.12086/oee.2019.180261

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Zhao Chunmei, Chen Zhongbi, Zhang Jianlin. Application of aircraft target tracking based on deep learning[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2019, 46(9): 180261. doi: 10.12086/oee.2019.180261

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Zhao Chunmei, Chen Zhongbi, Zhang Jianlin. Application of aircraft target tracking based on deep learning[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2019, 46(9): 180261. doi: 10.12086/oee.2019.180261

Application of aircraft target tracking based on deep learning

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Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan 610209, China
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Fund Project: Supported by Major Special Fund (G158207)

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^*Corresponding author: Chen Zhongbi, E-mail:ioeyoyo@126.com

Received Date 17 May 2018

Revised Date 15 October 2018

Published Date 30 September 2019

Abstract

Abstract

In this paper, based on muti-domain network (MDNet), fast deep learning for aircraft tracking (FDLAT) algorithm is proposed to track aircraft target. This algorithm uses feature-based transfer learning to make up the inferiority of small sample sets, uses specific data sets to update parameters of convolutional layers and fully connected layers, and use it to distinguish aircraft from background. After building the training model, we put the aircraft video sets into the model and tracked the aircraft using regression model and a simple line on-line update, to increase the speed while ensuring the accuracy. This algorithm achieves robust tracking for aircraft in rotation, similar targets, fuzzy targets, complex environment, scale transformation, target occlusion, morphological transformation and other complex states, and runs at a speed of 20.36 frames with the overlap reached 0.592 in the ILSVRC2015 detection sets of aircraft, basically meets the real-time application requirement of aircraft tracking.
- FDLAT /
- feature-based transfer learning /
- aircraft target /
- robust tracking /
- real-time tracking

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Overview

Overview

Overview: Deep learning has achieved good results in image classification, semantic segmentation, target detection and recognition. However, it is still restricted by small sample training sets on object tracking. Object tracking is one of the most important research topics in the field of computer vision, and has a wide range of applications. The challenge of object tracking lies in the complex states such as the target rotation, multi target, blur target, complex background, size change, target occlusion, fast moving and so on. In this paper, based on muti-domain network (MDNet), fast deep learning for aircraft tracking (FDLAT) algorithm is proposed to track aircraft target. This algorithm uses feature-based transfer learning to make up the inferiority of small sample sets, uses specific data sets to update parameters of convolutional layers and fully connected layers, and use it to distinguish aircraft from background. After building the training model, we put the aircraft video sets into the model and tracked the aircraft using regression model and a simple line on-line update, to increase the speed while ensuring the accuracy. This algorithm achieves robust tracking for aircraft in rotation, similar targets, fuzzy targets, complex environment, scale transformation, target occlusion, morphological transformation and other complex states. FDLAT is designed for lifting the speed while guaranteeing the precision of tracking. For the application of aircraft tracking, the FDLAT networks is trained by using 3 convolutional layers (Conv1~Conv3 of VGGNets) to extract the feature of aircraft target. Fc6 is a single layer and Fc4~Fc6 are used for the two classifications of aircraft and background, and the outputs are the probability of aircraft and background. In the process of tracking, the trained networks are used as feed-forward networks, and the candidate box of the maximum score of outputs is regressed to get the target location, while on-line updating is done by a simple linear operation. Our FDLAT algorithm is robust in aircraft target tracking, and basically meets the real-time requirements with high accuracy. This algorithm uses convolutional layers for feature extraction and fully connected layers for classification. Then the outputs of the networks perform a regression and location update operation in the testing process, which has good performance for scaling, occlusion, stealth, interference scene and covers the shortage of MDNet. A speed of 20.36 frames with the overlap reached 0.592 is achieved in the ILSVRC2015 detection sets of aircraft, basically meets the requirement of real-time for aircraft target tracking application.