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Hard to Track Objects with Irregular Motions and Similar Appearances? Make It Easier by Buffering the Matching Space
Fan Yang, Shigeyuki Odashima, Shoichi Masui, Shan Jiang
We propose a Cascaded Buffered IoU (C-BIoU) tracker to track multiple objects that have irregular motions and indistinguishable appearances. When appearance features are unreliable and geometric features are confused by irregular motions, applying conventional Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) methods may generate unsatisfactory results. To address this issue, our C-BIoU tracker adds buffers to expand the matching space of detections and tracks, which mitigates the effect of irregular motions in two aspects: one is to directly match identical but non-overlapping detections and tracks in adjacent frames, and the other is to compensate for the motion estimation bias in the matching space. In addition, to reduce the risk of overexpansion of the matching space, cascaded matching is employed: first matching alive tracks and detections with a small buffer, and then matching unmatched tracks and detections with a large buffer. Despite its simplicity, our C-BIoU tracker works surprisingly well and achieves state-of-the-art results on MOT datasets that focus on irregular motions and indistinguishable appearances. Moreover, the C-BIoU tracker is the dominant component for our 2-nd place solution in the CVPR'22 SoccerNet MOT and ECCV'22 MOTComplex DanceTrack challenges. Finally, we analyze the limitation of our C-BIoU tracker in ablation studies and discuss its application scope.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-Object Tracking | DanceTrack | C-BIoU | AssA | 45.4 | #22 of 37 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Multi-Object Tracking | DanceTrack | C-BIoU | DetA | 81.3 | #22 of 37 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Multi-Object Tracking | DanceTrack | C-BIoU | HOTA | 60.6 | #22 of 37 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Multi-Object Tracking | DanceTrack | C-BIoU | IDF1 | 61.6 | #22 of 37 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Multi-Object Tracking | DanceTrack | C-BIoU | MOTA | 91.6 | #22 of 37 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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