Learning Data Association for Multi-Object Tracking using Only Coordinates

Technical Report (2024)
@article{miah2024learning,
  title={Learning Data Association for Multi-Object Tracking using Only Coordinates},
  author={Miah, Mehdi and Bilodeau, Guillaume-Alexandre and Saunier, Nicolas},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.08018},
  year={2024}
}

Mehdi Miah, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau, Nicolas Saunier

Abstract We propose a novel Transformer-based module to address the data association problem for multi-object tracking. From detections obtained by a pretrained detector, this module uses only coordinates from bounding boxes to estimate an affinity score between pairs of tracks extracted from two distinct temporal windows. This module, named TWiX, is trained on sets of tracks with the objective of discriminating pairs of tracks coming from the same object from those which are not. Our module does not use the intersection over union measure, nor does it requires any motion priors or any camera motion compensation technique. By inserting TWiX within an online cascade matching pipeline, our tracker C-TWiX achieves state-of-the-art performance on the DanceTrack and KITTIMOT datasets, and gets competitive results on the MOT17 dataset.
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We acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [funding reference number RGPIN-2020-04633].