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MOTS: Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation

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Voigtlaender, Paul, Krause, Michael, Osep, Aljosa, Luiten, Jonathon, Sekar, Berin Balachandar Gnana, Geiger, Andreas, Leibe, Bastian·2019·2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

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This paper extends the popular task of multi-object tracking to multi-object tracking and segmentation (MOTS). Towards this goal, we create dense pixel-level annotations for two existing tracking datasets using a semi-automatic annotation procedure. Our new annotations comprise 65,213 pixel masks for 977 distinct objects (cars and pedestrians) in 10,870 video frames. For evaluation, we extend existing multi-object tracking metrics to this new task. Moreover, we propose a new baseline method which jointly addresses detection, tracking, and segmentation with a single convolutional network. We demonstrate the value of our datasets by achieving improvements in performance when training on MOTS annotations. We believe that our datasets, metrics and baseline will become a valuable resource towards developing multi-object tracking approaches that go beyond 2D bounding boxes. We make our annotations, code, and models available at https://www.vision.rwth-aachen.de/page/mots.

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  • TrackFormer achieves state-of-the-art results on the MOTS20 challenge.

    “Furthermore, we demonstrate the extension with a mask prediction head and show state-of-the-art results on the Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation (MOTS20) challenge [52].”

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Authors
Voigtlaender, P., Krause, M., Osep, A., Luiten, J., Sekar, B. B. G., Geiger, A., & Leibe, B.
Affiliations
  • RWTH Aachen University (DE)
  • RWTH Aachen Univ.
  • Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (DE)
  • Max Planck Society (DE)
Venue
2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2019-06
Pages
7934-7943
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2913562503
Cited by
658
References
71
Citations by year
2026: 25 · 2025: 84 · 2024: 101 · 2023: 105 · 2022: 123 · 2021: 121 · 2020: 84 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 2
FWCI
27.79
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen) (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • H2020 European Research Council (773161)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
Keywords
semi-automatic annotation, tracking dataset, convolutional neural networks, video frame

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