# Exploring Decoupled Spatio-Temporal Consistency Learning and Self-Prompting Evolution for Self-Supervised Tracking

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21606 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.21606/

## Key facts

- Cited by 23 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 55 of its 90 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 29 Jul 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 55)

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- [Fully-Convolutional Siamese Networks for Object Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.09549/) (2016)
- [GOT-10k: A Large High-Diversity Benchmark for Generic Object Tracking in the Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.11981/) (2018)
- [SiamRPN++: Evolution of Siamese Visual Tracking with Very Deep Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.11703/) (2018)
- [LaSOT: A High-quality Benchmark for Large-scale Single Object Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.07845/) (2018)
- [Transformer Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.15436/) (2021)
- [Not All Patches are What You Need: Expediting Vision Transformers via Token Reorganizations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.07800/) (2022)
- [Learning Spatio-Temporal Transformer for Visual Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.17154/) (2021)
- [Learning Discriminative Model Prediction for Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.07220/) (2019)
- [TrackingNet: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Object Tracking in the Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.10794/) (2018)
- [Joint Feature Learning and Relation Modeling for Tracking: A One-Stream Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.11991/) (2022)
- [MACE: Mass Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.06135/) (2024)
- [ATOM: Accurate Tracking by Overlap Maximization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.07628/) (2018)
- [MixFormer: End-to-End Tracking with Iterative Mixed Attention](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.11082/) (2022)
- [Fast Online Object Tracking and Segmentation: A Unifying Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.05050/) (2018)
- [Learning Correspondence from the Cycle-Consistency of Time](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.07593/) (2019)
- [Transformer Meets Tracker: Exploiting Temporal Context for Robust Visual Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.11681/) (2021)
- [Ocean: Object-aware Anchor-free Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.10721/) (2020)
- [Learning Multi-Domain Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1510.07945/) (2015)
- [Siamese Box Adaptive Network for Visual Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.06761/) (2020)

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- [Diffusion-Based Image Editing: An Unforeseen Adversary to Robust Invisible Watermarks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.05598/) (2025)
- [RELO: Reinforcement Learning to Localize for Visual Object Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.07379/) (2026)
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## Abstract (arXiv)

The success of visual tracking has been largely driven by datasets with manual box annotations. However, these box annotations require tremendous human effort, limiting the scale and diversity of existing tracking datasets. In this work, we present a novel high-performance Self-Supervised Tracking model named SSTrack++, designed to eliminate the need of box annotations. Specifically, we design an effective weak-to-strong self-supervised training framework that aims to narrow the feature distribution gap between labeled and unlabeled frames. Building upon this framework, a decoupled spatio-temporal consistency training strategy is introduced to capture rich target information across timestamps by leveraging global spatial localization and local temporal association. Then, a self-prompting evolution module is designed to jointly mine the target appearance evolution at both the feature and decision levels, enabling more robust adaptation to complex and diverse unlabeled tracking scenarios. Furthermore, an instance contrastive loss is formulated to learn instance-level correspondences from a multi-view perspective, providing robust instance-level supervision without any additional annotations. This new design paradigm enables SSTrack++ to not only learn a generalizable tracking representation in a low-annotation self-supervised manner, but also makes it possible to simulate realistic appearance and motion variations of target instances in real-world scenarios. Extensive experiments on ten benchmark datasets demonstrate that SSTrack++ surpasses SOTA self-supervised tracking methods, achieving an improvement of more than 25.8%, 21.4%, and 15.8% in AUC (AO) score on the GOT10K, LaSOT, TrackingNet datasets, respectively, thereby significantly narrowing the performance gap with fully supervised trackers. Code is available at https://github.com/GXNU-ZhongLab/SSTrack.