Training Procedure for Multiple Object Tracking

Eliminating Exposure Bias and Loss-Evaluation Mismatch in Multiple Object Tracking

Identity Switching remains one of the main difficulties Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) algorithms have to deal with. Many state-of-the-art approaches now use sequence models to solve this problem but their training can be affected by biases that decrease their efficiency.

We introduce a new training procedure that confronts the algorithm to its own mistakes while explicitly attempting to minimize the number of switches, which results in better training. We propose an iterative scheme of building a rich training set and using it to learn a scoring function that is an explicit proxy for the target tracking metric. Whether using only simple geometric features or more sophisticated ones that also take appearance into account, our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art on several MOT benchmarks.

Results

First video presents examples of the obtained tracking results on DukeMTMC dataset.

Second video presents examples of the obtained tracking results on MOT17 dataset.

Third video presents tracking results obtained by using only geometric features.

References

On Arxiv

Code

Eliminating Exposure Bias and Metric Mismatch in Multiple Object Tracking

A. Maksai; P. Fua 

2019-06-23. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA, Jun 16-20, 2019. p. 4634-4643. DOI : 10.1109/CVPR.2019.00477.