The official implementation of the ICCV2021 paper Learning Spatio-Temporal Transformer for Visual Tracking
Hiring research interns for visual transformer projects: houwen.peng@microsoft.com
- STARK has been integrated into the mmtracking library!
- 🏆 We are the Winner of VOT-21 RGB-D challenge
- 🏆 We won the Runner-ups in VOT-21 Real-Time and Long-term challenges
- We release an extremely fast version of STARK called STARK-Lightning ⚡ . It can run at 200~300 FPS on a RTX TITAN GPU. Besides, its performance can beat DiMP50, while the model size is even less than that of SiamFC! More details can be found at STARK_Lightning_En.md/中文教程
- The raw results of STARK and other trackers on NOTU (NFS, OTB100, TC128, UAV123) have been uploaded to here

STARK is an end-to-end tracking approach, which directly predicts one accurate bounding box as the tracking result.
Besides, STARK does not use any hyperparameters-sensitive post-processing, leading to stable performances.
STARK-ST50 and STARK-ST101 run at 40FPS and 30FPS respectively on a Tesla V100 GPU.
| Tracker | LaSOT (AUC) | GOT-10K (AO) | TrackingNet (AUC) |
|---|---|---|---|
| STARK | 67.1 | 68.8 | 82.0 |
| TransT | 64.9 | 67.1 | 81.4 |
| TrDiMP | 63.7 | 67.1 | 78.4 |
| Siam R-CNN | 64.8 | 64.9 | 81.2 |
STARK is implemented purely based on the PyTorch.
Option1: Use the Anaconda
conda create -n stark python=3.6 conda activate stark bash install_pytorch17.sh Option2: Use the docker file
We provide the complete docker at here
Put the tracking datasets in ./data. It should look like:
${STARK_ROOT} -- data -- lasot |-- airplane |-- basketball |-- bear ... -- got10k |-- test |-- train |-- val -- coco |-- annotations |-- images -- trackingnet |-- TRAIN_0 |-- TRAIN_1 ... |-- TRAIN_11 |-- TEST Run the following command to set paths for this project
python tracking/create_default_local_file.py --workspace_dir . --data_dir ./data --save_dir . After running this command, you can also modify paths by editing these two files
lib/train/admin/local.py # paths about training lib/test/evaluation/local.py # paths about testing Training with multiple GPUs using DDP
# STARK-S50 python tracking/train.py --script stark_s --config baseline --save_dir . --mode multiple --nproc_per_node 8 # STARK-S50 # STARK-ST50 python tracking/train.py --script stark_st1 --config baseline --save_dir . --mode multiple --nproc_per_node 8 # STARK-ST50 Stage1 python tracking/train.py --script stark_st2 --config baseline --save_dir . --mode multiple --nproc_per_node 8 --script_prv stark_st1 --config_prv baseline # STARK-ST50 Stage2 # STARK-ST101 python tracking/train.py --script stark_st1 --config baseline_R101 --save_dir . --mode multiple --nproc_per_node 8 # STARK-ST101 Stage1 python tracking/train.py --script stark_st2 --config baseline_R101 --save_dir . --mode multiple --nproc_per_node 8 --script_prv stark_st1 --config_prv baseline_R101 # STARK-ST101 Stage2 (Optionally) Debugging training with a single GPU
python tracking/train.py --script stark_s --config baseline --save_dir . --mode single - LaSOT
python tracking/test.py stark_st baseline --dataset lasot --threads 32 python tracking/analysis_results.py # need to modify tracker configs and names - GOT10K-test
python tracking/test.py stark_st baseline_got10k_only --dataset got10k_test --threads 32 python lib/test/utils/transform_got10k.py --tracker_name stark_st --cfg_name baseline_got10k_only - TrackingNet
python tracking/test.py stark_st baseline --dataset trackingnet --threads 32 python lib/test/utils/transform_trackingnet.py --tracker_name stark_st --cfg_name baseline - VOT2020
Before evaluating "STARK+AR" on VOT2020, please install some extra packages following external/AR/README.md
cd external/vot20/<workspace_dir> export PYTHONPATH=<path to the stark project>:$PYTHONPATH bash exp.sh - VOT2020-LT
cd external/vot20_lt/<workspace_dir> export PYTHONPATH=<path to the stark project>:$PYTHONPATH bash exp.sh # Profiling STARK-S50 model python tracking/profile_model.py --script stark_s --config baseline # Profiling STARK-ST50 model python tracking/profile_model.py --script stark_st2 --config baseline # Profiling STARK-ST101 model python tracking/profile_model.py --script stark_st2 --config baseline_R101 # Profiling STARK-Lightning-X-trt python tracking/profile_model_lightning_X_trt.py The trained models, the training logs, and the raw tracking results are provided in the model zoo
- Thanks for the great PyTracking Library, which helps us to quickly implement our ideas.
- We use the implementation of the DETR from the official repo https://github.com/facebookresearch/detr.