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However, the complex marine environment poses a huge challenge to the effect of tracking, such as the variability of light, the impact of sea waves, the occlusion of other ships, etc. Under these complex marine environmental factors, how to design an efficient dynamic visual tracker to make the results accurate, real time and robust is particularly important. The parallel three-branch correlation filters for complex marine environmental object tracking based on a confidence mechanism is proposed by us. The proposed tracker first detects the appearance change and position change of the object by constructing parallel three-branch correlation filters, which enhances the robustness of the correlation filter model. Through the weighted fusion of response maps, the center position of the object is accurately located. Secondly, the Gaussian-triangle joint distribution is used to replace the original Gaussian distribution in the training phase. Finally, a verification mechanism of confidence metric is embedded in the filter update section to analyze the tracking effect of the current frame, and to update the filter sample from verification result. Thus, a more accurate correlation filter is trained to prevent model drift and achieve a good tracking effect. We found that the effect of various interferences on the filter is effectively reduced by comparing with other trackers. 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