Fetatrack: Foreground-aware dynamic template co-evolution for visual object tracking
摘要
Visual object tracking aims to continuously localize a target across video frames, yet remains challenging under complex background variations, occlusions, and deformations. Existing deep learning-based trackers often suffer from template contamination at initialization and passive historical modeling during tracking, leading to unstable localization. To address these issues, we propose FetaTrack, a foreground-aware tracking framework that reformulates dynamic template learning as a purification-driven and interaction-guided co-evolution process. Specifically, a foreground extraction (FE) module explicitly purifies the target representation at initialization, while a co-evolution mechanism within the encoder enables global interaction among the static template, dynamic template, and search region, allowing the template to be actively reshaped by context. Furthermore, a confidence-driven adaptive update strategy couples target state estimation with template evolution by selecting between mask-based correction and exponential moving average (EMA)-based adaptation, achieving a balance between robustness and flexibility. Extensive experiments on GOT-10k, TrackingNet, LaSOT, and LaSOText demonstrate that FetaTrack achieves competitive and consistent performance improvements under a variety of challenging tracking scenarios. Code and models are open-sourced at https://github.com/BestInYou/fetatrack.