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optimum. Experiments with several datasets with illumination change, occlusion and
appearance change demonstrate the improvements by the proposed algorithm in both
robustness and efficiency.
Acknowledgments. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science
Foundation of China (NSFC, grant no. 61002040), NSFC-GuangDong (grant no.
10171782619-2000007), and the Introduced Innovative R&D Team of Guangdong
Province-Robot and Intelligent Information Technology R&D Team.
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