*Article* **Lightweight Target-Aware Attention Learning Network-Based Target Tracking Method**

**Yanchun Zhao 1,†, Jiapeng Zhang 2, Rui Duan 2, Fusheng Li 1,\*,† and Huanlong Zhang <sup>2</sup>**


**Abstract:** Siamese network trackers based on pre-trained depth features have achieved good performance in recent years. However, the pre-trained depth features are trained in advance on large-scale datasets, which contain feature information of a large number of objects. There may be a pair of interference and redundant information for a single tracking target. To learn a more accurate target feature information, this paper proposes a lightweight target-aware attention learning network to learn the most effective channel features of the target online. The lightweight network uses a designed attention learning loss function to learn a series of channel features with weights online with no complex parameters. Compared with the pre-trained features, the channel features with weights can represent the target more accurately. Finally, the lightweight target-aware attention learning network is unified into a Siamese tracking network framework to implement target tracking effectively. Experiments on several datasets demonstrate that the tracker proposed in this paper has good performance.

**Keywords:** target features; siamese trackers; lightweight network; target tracking

**MSC:** 68T45
