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For the purpose of target locating and tracking in our system, detecting the contour of the target is utilized and can help with improving the accuracy of target tracking, because a shape-adaptive template segmented by object contour contains the most useful information and the least background for object tracking. In this paper, we propose a new start-up of tracking by clicking on the target, and implement the whole tracking process by modifying and combining a contour detection network and a fully convolutional Siamese tracking network. The experimental results show that our algorithm has significantly improved tracking accuracy compared to the state-of-the-art regarding vehicle images in both OTB100 and DARPA datasets. 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