diff --git a/modules/tracking/doc/tracking.bib b/modules/tracking/doc/tracking.bib
index 191601cf2..9853b965f 100644
--- a/modules/tracking/doc/tracking.bib
+++ b/modules/tracking/doc/tracking.bib
@@ -107,3 +107,10 @@ author={Bolme, David S. and Beveridge, J. Ross and Draper, Bruce A. and Lui Yui,
 booktitle = {Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
 year      = {2010}
 }
+
+@Article{Lukezic_IJCV2018,
+author={Luke{\v{z}}i{\v{c}}, Alan and Voj{'i}{\v{r}}, Tom{'a}{\v{s}} and {\v{C}}ehovin Zajc, Luka and Matas, Ji{\v{r}}{'i} and Kristan, Matej},
+title={Discriminative Correlation Filter Tracker with Channel and Spatial Reliability},
+journal={International Journal of Computer Vision},
+year={2018},
+}
diff --git a/modules/tracking/include/opencv2/tracking/tracker.hpp b/modules/tracking/include/opencv2/tracking/tracker.hpp
index 37545bfee..886ef249f 100644
--- a/modules/tracking/include/opencv2/tracking/tracker.hpp
+++ b/modules/tracking/include/opencv2/tracking/tracker.hpp
@@ -1513,6 +1513,8 @@ public:
     float scale_model_max_area;
     float scale_lr;
     float scale_step;
+
+    float psr_threshold; //!< we lost the target, if the psr is lower than this.
   };
 
   /** @brief Constructor
diff --git a/modules/tracking/src/trackerCSRT.cpp b/modules/tracking/src/trackerCSRT.cpp
index d34b8562b..d46cf1432 100644
--- a/modules/tracking/src/trackerCSRT.cpp
+++ b/modules/tracking/src/trackerCSRT.cpp
@@ -429,8 +429,12 @@ Point2f TrackerCSRTImpl::estimate_new_position(const Mat &image)
 
     Mat resp = calculate_response(image, csr_filter);
 
+    double max_val;
     Point max_loc;
-    minMaxLoc(resp, NULL, NULL, NULL, &max_loc);
+    minMaxLoc(resp, NULL, &max_val, NULL, &max_loc);
+    if (max_val < params.psr_threshold)
+        return Point2f(-1,-1); // target "lost"
+
     // take into account also subpixel accuracy
     float col = ((float) max_loc.x) + subpixel_peak(resp, "horizontal", max_loc);
     float row = ((float) max_loc.y) + subpixel_peak(resp, "vertical", max_loc);
@@ -472,6 +476,8 @@ bool TrackerCSRTImpl::updateImpl(const Mat& image_, Rect2d& boundingBox)
     }
 
     object_center = estimate_new_position(image);
+    if (object_center.x < 0 && object_center.y < 0)
+        return false;
 
     current_scale_factor = dsst.getScale(image, object_center);
     //update bouding_box according to new scale and location
@@ -651,6 +657,7 @@ TrackerCSRT::Params::Params()
     histogram_bins = 16;
     background_ratio = 2;
     histogram_lr = 0.04f;
+    psr_threshold = 0.035f;
 }
 
 void TrackerCSRT::Params::read(const FileNode& fn)
@@ -708,6 +715,8 @@ void TrackerCSRT::Params::read(const FileNode& fn)
         fn["background_ratio"] >> background_ratio;
     if(!fn["histogram_lr"].empty())
         fn["histogram_lr"] >> histogram_lr;
+    if(!fn["psr_threshold"].empty())
+        fn["psr_threshold"] >> psr_threshold;
     CV_Assert(number_of_scales % 2 == 1);
     CV_Assert(use_gray || use_color_names || use_hog || use_rgb);
 }
@@ -739,5 +748,6 @@ void TrackerCSRT::Params::write(FileStorage& fs) const
     fs << "histogram_bins" << histogram_bins;
     fs << "background_ratio" << background_ratio;
     fs << "histogram_lr" << histogram_lr;
+    fs << "psr_threshold" << psr_threshold;
 }
 } /* namespace cv */