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Zhang et al. / Front Inform Technol Electron Eng 2017 18(4):545-558 545 Frontiers of Information Technology Electronic Engineering /jzus; ; ISSN 2095-9184 (print); ISSN 2095-9230 (online) E-mail: jzus@ A robust object tracking framework based on a reliable point assignment algorithm*# Rong-feng ZHANG1,2, Ting DENG??3, Gui-hong WANG1, Jing-lun SHI1, Quan-sheng GUAN1 (1School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China) (2School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Guangzhou College of South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510800, China) (3Information Network Engineering and Research Center, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China) ?E-mail: dengting@ Received Aug. 14, 2016; Revision accepted Dec. 21, 2016; Crosschecked Mar. 28, 2017 Abstract: Visual tracking, which has been widely used in many vision fields, has been one of the most active research topics in computer vision in recent years. However, there are still challenges in visual tracking, such as illumination change, object occlu- sion, and appearance deformation. To overcome these difficulties, a reliable point assignment (RPA) algorithm based on wavelet transform is proposed. The reliable points are obtained by searching the location that holds local maximal wavelet coefficients. Since the local maximal wavelet coefficients indicate high variation in the image, the rel