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The augmentation method mainly aims at the detection failure caused by the small number of effective samples, jitter of tracking platform, and relative rotation between camera and object in the tracking process. Aiming at the object tracking problem, we first propose to use geometric projection transformation, multi-directional overlay blurring, and random background filling to improve the generalization ability of samples. Then, selecting suitable traditional augmentation methods as the supplements, an image augmentation model with an adjustable probability factor is provided to simulate various kinds of samples to help the detection model carry out more reliable training. Finally, combined with a spatial localization algorithm based on geometric constraints proposed by the author\u2019s previous work, a framework for object tracking with an image augmentation method is proposed. SSD, YOLOv3, YOLOv4, and YOLOx are adopted in the experiment of this paper as the detection models. And a large number of object recognition and object tracking experiments are carried out by combining with common data sets OTB50 and OTB100 as well as the OTMP data set proposed by us for mobile platform. The augmented module proposed in this paper is conducive for the detection model to improve the detection accuracy by at least 10%. Especially for objects with planar characteristics, the affine and projection transformation used in this paper can greatly improve the detection accuracy of the model. Based on the object tracking framework of our augmented model, the RMSE is estimated to be less than 4.21 cm in terms of the actual tracking of indoor objects.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22051967","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,2]],"date-time":"2022-03-02T22:53:25Z","timestamp":1646261605000},"page":"1967","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["An Image Augmentation Method Based on Limited Samples for Object Tracking Based on Mobile Platform"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8616-7714","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zihao","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"},{"name":"Aircraft Swarm Intelligent Sensing and Cooperative Control Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu 611731, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sen","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"},{"name":"Aircraft Swarm Intelligent Sensing and Cooperative Control Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu 611731, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mengji","family":"Shi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"},{"name":"Aircraft Swarm Intelligent Sensing and Cooperative Control Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu 611731, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kaiyu","family":"Qin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"},{"name":"Aircraft Swarm Intelligent Sensing and Cooperative Control Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu 611731, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2278","DOI":"10.1109\/5.726791","article-title":"Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition","volume":"86","author":"LeCun","year":"1998","journal-title":"Proc. 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