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Simple Cues Lead to a Strong Multi-Object Tracker

MCML Authors

Jenny Seidenschwarz

* Former Member

→ Group Daniel Cremers
Computer Vision & Artificial Intelligence

Laura Leal-Taixé

Prof. Dr.

Principal Investigator

* Former Principal Investigator

Abstract

For a long time, the most common paradigm in Multi-Object Tracking was tracking-by-detection (TbD), where objects are first detected and then associated over video frames. For association, most models resourced to motion and appearance cues, e.g., re-identification networks. Recent approaches based on attention propose to learn the cues in a data-driven manner, showing impressive results. In this paper, we ask ourselves whether simple good old TbD methods are also capable of achieving the performance of end-to-end models. To this end, we propose two key ingredients that allow a standard re-identification network to excel at appearance-based tracking. We extensively analyse its failure cases, and show that a combination of our appearance features with a simple motion model leads to strong tracking results. Our tracker generalizes to four public datasets, namely MOT17, MOT20, BDD100k, and DanceTrack, achieving state-of-the-art performance.

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