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Joint Detection and Tracking in Videos with Identification Features
Recent works have shown that combining object detection and tracking tasks,
in the case of video data, results in higher performance for both tasks, but
they require a high frame-rate as a strict requirement for performance. This is
assumption is often violated in real-world applications, when models run on
embedded devices, often at only a few frames per second.
Videos at low frame-rate suffer from large object displacements. Here
re-identification features may support to match large-displaced object
detections, but current joint detection and re-identification formulations
degrade the detector performance, as these two are contrasting tasks. In the
real-world application having separate detector and re-id models is often not
feasible, as both the memory and runtime effectively double.
Towards robust long-term tracking applicable to reduced-computational-power
devices, we propose the first joint optimization of detection, tracking and
re-identification features for videos. Notably, our joint optimization
maintains the detector performance, a typical multi-task challenge. At
inference time, we leverage detections for tracking (tracking-by-detection)
when the objects are visible, detectable and slowly moving in the image. We
leverage instead re-identification features to match objects which disappeared
(e.g. due to occlusion) for several frames or were not tracked due to fast
motion (or low-frame-rate videos). Our proposed method reaches the
state-of-the-art on MOT, it ranks 1st in the UA-DETRAC'18 tracking challenge
among online trackers, and 3rd overall.Comment: Accepted at Image and Vision Computing Journa
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