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Introduction to Visual Tracking

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Visual tracking is a rapidly evolving field of computer vision that has been attracting increasing attention in the vision community. One reason is that visual tracking offers many challenges as a scientific problem. Moreover, it is a part of many high-level problems of computer vision, such as motion analysis, event detection, and activity understanding.

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Lu, H., Wang, D. (2019). Introduction to Visual Tracking. In: Online Visual Tracking. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0469-9_1

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