Visual Object Tracking Benchmark Appendix

Bridging python and matlab version of OTB

For visual tracking practioners and researchers. As Python version of the benchmark is easier to use but its plotting function is incomplete, matlab version is better at plotting but not everyone love it. You may use converter.py to help with the issue.

python converter.py

Please make sure you are using python2 and installed scipy, otherwise you may also modify converter.py to meet your needs.

benchmark_py and benchmark_mat are placeholders and not executable if you do not configure them. Please download and configure them from the corresponding urls(For python version, you may also need to install the Matlab with python engine support or you may just modify benchmark code to run other trackers not implemented in matlab):

• Matlab version-http://cvlab.hanyang.ac.kr/tracker_benchmark/v1.0/tracker_benchmark_v1.0.zip
• Python version-https://github.com/jwlim/tracker_benchmark

Or modify ORIGIN_PATH and EXPORT_PATH in converter.py to your configured benchmark results location.

In reference to:

@inproceedings{ WuLimYang13,
  Title = {Online Object Tracking: A Benchmark},
  Author = {Yi Wu and Jongwoo Lim and Ming-Hsuan Yang},
  Booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  Year = {2013}
}