Hyperspectral Video Tracking With Spectral–Spatial Fusion and Memory Enhancement

Hyperspectral video (HSV) provides rich spectral-spatial-temporal information, enabling the capture of complex object dynamics beyond the limitations of conventional single- and multi-modal tracking. However, current HSV tracking methods face challenges such as data scarcity, band gaps, spectral fragmentation, temporal underutilization, and high computational load, which constrain performance. In this article, we present SpectralTrack, a novel HSV tracking framework with spectral-spatial fusion and memory enhancement. SpectralTrack incorporates an explicit visual prompting module to mitigate band gaps and spectral fragmentation. We further introduce an extraction-matching-interaction module, which leverages a template-bridging search adapter and a multi-layer perceptron adapter within a multi-modal Transformer architecture for efficient cross-modal feature extraction-matching-interaction. Additionally, a memory perception module enhances state reasoning by injecting temporal prompts to refine spectral and spatial cues. SpectralTrack follows parameter-efficient fine-tuning and feature-level fusion to alleviate data scarcity and reduce computational overhead. We instantiate two variants, SpectralTrack and SpectralTrack+, across nine HSV tracking datasets, demonstrating superior effectiveness over extensive trackers. Implementations and results will be available at https://github.com/YZCU/SpectralTrack.