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SFSORT: Scene Features-based Simple Online Real-Time Tracker

11 Apr 2024arXiv:2404.07553archive 2025-07-28

M. M. Morsali, Z. Sharifi, F. Fallah, S. Hashembeiki, H. Mohammadzade, S. Bagheri Shouraki

This paper introduces SFSORT, the world's fastest multi-object tracking system based on experiments conducted on MOT Challenge datasets. To achieve an accurate and computationally efficient tracker, this paper employs a tracking-by-detection method, following the online real-time tracking approach established in prior literature. By introducing a novel cost function called the Bounding Box Similarity Index, this work eliminates the Kalman Filter, leading to reduced computational requirements. Additionally, this paper demonstrates the impact of scene features on enhancing object-track association and improving track post-processing. Using a 2.2 GHz Intel Xeon CPU, the proposed method achieves an HOTA of 61.7\% with a processing speed of 2242 Hz on the MOT17 dataset and an HOTA of 60.9\% with a processing speed of 304 Hz on the MOT20 dataset. The tracker's source code, fine-tuned object detection model, and tutorials are available at \url{https://github.com/gitmehrdad/SFSORT}.

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Multi-Object TrackingObjectObject DetectionObject TrackingOnline Multi-Object TrackingReal-Time Multi-Object Trackingobject-detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Multi-Object Tracking MOT17 SFSORT HOTA 61.7 #20 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Multi-Object Tracking MOT17 SFSORT IDF1 74.4 #20 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Multi-Object Tracking MOT17 SFSORT MOTA 78.8 #20 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Multi-Object Tracking MOT17 SFSORT Speed (FPS) 2241.8 #20 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Multi-Object Tracking MOT20 SFSORT HOTA 60.9 #15 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Multi-Object Tracking MOT20 SFSORT IDF1 73.5 #15 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Multi-Object Tracking MOT20 SFSORT MOTA 75 #15 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Multi-Object Tracking MOT20 SFSORT Speed (FPS) 304.1 #15 of 27 Archive leaderboard report

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