Abstract:In order to improve the feature expression ability of the target tracking algorithm based on Siamese network and obtain better tracking performance, a lightweight Siamese network target tracking algorithm based on secondorder pooling feature fusion is proposed. First, the Siamese network architecture is used to obtain the deep features of the target; then, the secondorder pooling network and the lightweight channel attention are added in parallel at the end of the Siamese network architecture to obtain the secondorder pooling features and channel attention features of the target, respectively. Finally, the depth feature of the target, the secondorder pooling feature and the channel attention feature are fused, and the fused feature is used for crosscorrelation operation, and the obtained response graph can distinguish the target and the background well, and improve the discriminative ability of the model, and improve the accuracy of target positioning, thereby improving target tracking performance. The proposed algorithm only uses the Got10k dataset for endtoend training and is validated on the OTB100 and VOT2018 datasets. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm achieves a significant improvement in tracking performance compared with the benchmark algorithm SiamFC: on the OTB100 dataset, the accuracy and success rate are increased by 7.5% and 5.2%, respectively; on the VOT2018 dataset, the expected average overlap rate increases by 4.3%.