Padding issue of SiamFc

[Morefre]

Hi! When evaluating the appearance models on SOT using SiamFC tracker, how does padding operation, which breaks SiamFC's fullly-convolutional property, affect the result?
Thanks in advance!

[Zhongdao]

Hi @Morefre ,
Good question!
Considering that all the off-the-shelf SSL models we tested as appearance models are trained with zero padding, we did not evaluate how much it improves by removing zero paddings. But I guess it definitely will improve results in propagation-type tasks like SOT and VOS.