Towards a Principled Integration of Multi-Camera Re-Identification and Tracking through Optimal Bayes Filters

With the rise of end-to-end learning through deep learning, person detectors and re-identification (ReID) models have recently become very strong. Multi-camera multi-target (MCMT) tracking has not fully gone through this transformation yet. We intend to take another step in this direction by presenting a theoretically principled way of integrating ReID with tracking formulated as an optimal Bayes filter. This conveniently side-steps the need for data-association and opens up a direct path from full images to the core of the tracker. While the results are still sub-par, we believe that this new, tight integration opens many interesting research opportunities and leads the way towards full end-to-end tracking from raw pixels.Comment: First two authors have equal contribution. This is initial work into a new direction, not a benchmark-beating method. v2 only adds acknowledgements and fixes a typo in e-mai

Deep learning of appearance affinity for multi-object tracking and re-identification: a comparative view

Recognizing the identity of a query individual in a surveillance sequence is the core of Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) and Re-Identification (Re-Id) algorithms. Both tasks can be addressed by measuring the appearance affinity between people observations with a deep neural model. Nevertheless, the differences in their specifications and, consequently, in the characteristics and constraints of the available training data for each one of these tasks, arise from the necessity of employing different learning approaches to attain each one of them. This article offers a comparative view of the Double-Margin-Contrastive and the Triplet loss function, and analyzes the benefits and drawbacks of applying each one of them to learn an Appearance Affinity model for Tracking and Re-Identification. A batch of experiments have been conducted, and their results support the hypothesis concluded from the presented study: Triplet loss function is more effective than the Contrastive one when an Re-Id model is learnt, and, conversely, in the MOT domain, the Contrastive loss can better discriminate between pairs of images rendering the same person or not.This research was funded by the Spanish Government through the CICYT projects (TRA2016-78886-C3-1-R and RTI2018-096036-B-C21), Universidad Carlos III of Madrid through (PEAVAUTO-CM-UC3M), the Comunidad de Madrid through SEGVAUTO-4.0-CM (P2018/EMT-4362), and the Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte para la Formación de Profesorado Universitario (FPU14/02143)