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TAPIR: Tracking Any Point with per-frame Initialization and temporal Refinement

14 Jun 2023ICCV 2023 1arXiv:2306.08637archive 2025-07-28

Carl Doersch, Yi Yang, Mel Vecerik, Dilara Gokay, Ankush Gupta, Yusuf Aytar, Joao Carreira, Andrew Zisserman

We present a novel model for Tracking Any Point (TAP) that effectively tracks any queried point on any physical surface throughout a video sequence. Our approach employs two stages: (1) a matching stage, which independently locates a suitable candidate point match for the query point on every other frame, and (2) a refinement stage, which updates both the trajectory and query features based on local correlations. The resulting model surpasses all baseline methods by a significant margin on the TAP-Vid benchmark, as demonstrated by an approximate 20% absolute average Jaccard (AJ) improvement on DAVIS. Our model facilitates fast inference on long and high-resolution video sequences. On a modern GPU, our implementation has the capacity to track points faster than real-time, and can be flexibly extended to higher-resolution videos. Given the high-quality trajectories extracted from a large dataset, we demonstrate a proof-of-concept diffusion model which generates trajectories from static images, enabling plausible animations. Visualizations, source code, and pretrained models can be found on our project webpage.

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Motion EstimationPoint TrackingVisual Tracking

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Visual Tracking DAVIS TAPIR (Panning MOVi-E) Average Jaccard 61.3 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Tracking DAVIS TAPIR (MOVi-E) Average Jaccard 59.8 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Tracking Kinetics TAPIR (Panning MOVi-E) Average Jaccard 57.2 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Tracking Kinetics TAPIR (MOVi-E) Average Jaccard 57.1 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Tracking Kubric TAPIR (Panning MOVi-E) Average Jaccard 84.7 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Tracking Kubric TAPIR (MOVi-E) Average Jaccard 84.3 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Tracking RGB-Stacking TAPIR (MOVi-E) Average Jaccard 66.2 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Tracking RGB-Stacking TAPIR (Panning MOVi-E) Average Jaccard 62.7 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report

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