Distractor-Aware Memory-Based Visual Object Tracking

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13864v1
• Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:54:27 GMT
• Title: Distractor-Aware Memory-Based Visual Object Tracking
• Authors: Jovana Videnovic, Matej Kristan, Alan Lukezic,
• Abstract summary: We propose a distractor-aware drop-in memory module and introspection-based management method for SAM2.<n>Our design effectively reduces the tracking drift toward distractors and improves redetection capability after object occlusion.<n>We show DAM4SAM outperforms SAM2.1 on thirteen benchmarks and sets new state-of-the-art results on ten.
• Score: 17.945503249662675
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent emergence of memory-based video segmentation methods such as SAM2 has led to models with excellent performance in segmentation tasks, achieving leading results on numerous benchmarks. However, these modes are not fully adjusted for visual object tracking, where distractors (i.e., objects visually similar to the target) pose a key challenge. In this paper we propose a distractor-aware drop-in memory module and introspection-based management method for SAM2, leading to DAM4SAM. Our design effectively reduces the tracking drift toward distractors and improves redetection capability after object occlusion. To facilitate the analysis of tracking in the presence of distractors, we construct DiDi, a Distractor-Distilled dataset. DAM4SAM outperforms SAM2.1 on thirteen benchmarks and sets new state-of-the-art results on ten. Furthermore, integrating the proposed distractor-aware memory into a real-time tracker EfficientTAM leads to 11% improvement and matches tracking quality of the non-real-time SAM2.1-L on multiple tracking and segmentation benchmarks, while integration with edge-based tracker EdgeTAM delivers 4% performance boost, demonstrating a very good generalization across architectures.

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