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However, most end devices encounter difficulties when dealing a large amount of IoT video data due to their lack of computational resources for visual object tracking. Discriminative correlation filter (DCF)-based tracking approaches possess favorable properties for resource-constrained end devices, such as low computational costs and robustness to motion blur and illumination variations. Most current DCF trackers employ multiple features and the spatial\u2013temporal scale space to estimate the target state, both of which may be suboptimal due to their fixed feature dimensions and dense scale intervals. In this paper, we present an adaptive mapped-feature and scale-interval method based on DCF to alleviate the problem of suboptimality. Specifically, we propose an adaptive mapped-feature response based on dimensionality reduction and histogram score maps to integrate multiple features and boost tracking effectiveness. Moreover, an adaptive temporal scale estimation method with sparse intervals is proposed to further improve tracking efficiency. Extensive experiments on the DTB70, UAV112, UAV123@10fps and UAVDT datasets demonstrate the superiority of our method, with a running speed of 41.3 FPS on a cheap CPU, compared to state-of-the-art trackers.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s25165025","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,13]],"date-time":"2025-08-13T15:53:27Z","timestamp":1755100407000},"page":"5025","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Adaptive Feature- and Scale-Based Object Tracking with Correlation Filters for Resource-Constrained End Devices in the IoT"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"25","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7250-9840","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shengjie","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kaiwen","family":"Kang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5217-004X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shuai","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bo","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Junliang","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"108","DOI":"10.23919\/JCC.2021.01.010","article-title":"CNN-based intelligent safety surveillance in green IoT applications","volume":"18","author":"Cao","year":"2021","journal-title":"China Commun."},{"key":"ref_2","first-page":"1142","article-title":"Visual tracking: An experimental survey","volume":"36","author":"Smeulders","year":"2014","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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