Multi-view Feature Discrepancy Attack for Single Object Tracking

Adversarial attacks on single object tracking (SOT) have attracted increasing attention. However, most previous works have focused on adding small digital perturbations to tracking sequences, assuming access to the data, which makes these attacks impractical in real-world applications. Inspired by traditional military camouflage, we propose a texture pattern attack method with a similar implementation, called the Multi-View Feature Discrepancy Attack (MFDA). Unlike the consistent texture features of traditional camouflage, we iteratively optimize non-planar textures by obtaining gradients from the target model to enhance feature discrepancies across different viewpoints. Moreover, the model’s multi-scale features and heatmaps are utilized as targets for our feature-level and decision-level attacks, respectively. We apply texture patterns to controllable regions of vehicle models and conduct extensive attack experiments. The results show that our method significantly degrades the performance of state-of-the-art Siamese-based trackers, and also exhibits attack capability against ViT-based trackers.