In this work, a novel high-speed single object tracker that is robust against non-semantic distractor exemplars is introduced; dubbed BOBBY2. It incorporates a novel exemplar buffer module that sparsely caches the target's appearance across time, enabling it to adapt to potential target deformation. In addition, we demonstrate that exemplar buffer is capable of providing redundancies in case of unintended target drifts, a desirable trait in any middle to long term tracking. Even when the buffer is predominantly filled with distractors instead of valid exemplars, BOBBY2 is capable of maintaining a near-optimal level of accuracy. In terms of speed, BOBBY2 utilises a stripped down AlexNet as feature extractor with 63% less parameters than a vanilla AlexNet, thus being able to run at 85 FPS. An augmented ImageNet-VID dataset was used for training with the one cycle policy, enabling it to reach convergence with less than 2 epoch worth of data. For validation, the model was benchmarked on the GOT-10k dataset and on an additional small, albeit challenging custom UAV dataset collected with the TU-3 UAV.

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