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Recent advanced trackers, consisting of discriminative classification component and dedicated bounding box estimation, have achieved improved performance in the visual tracking community. The most essential factor for the development is the utilization of different Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which significantly improves the model capacity via offline trained deep feature representations. Though powerful deep structures emphasize more semantic appearance through high dimensional latent variables, how to achieve effective feature adaptation in the online tracking stage has not been sufficiently considered yet. To this end, we argue the necessity of exploring hierarchical and complementary appearance descriptors from different convolutional layers to achieve online tracking adaptation. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an adaptive feature fusion mechanism, which can balance the detection …