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Learning a Neural Solver for Multiple Object Tracking

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Braso, Guillem, Leal-Taixe, Laura·2020·2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

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Graphs offer a natural way to formulate Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) within the tracking-by-detection paradigm. However, they also introduce a major challenge for learning methods, as defining a model that can operate on such structured domain is not trivial. As a consequence, most learning-based work has been devoted to learning better features for MOT and then using these with well-established optimization frameworks. In this work, we exploit the classical network flow formulation of MOT to define a fully differentiable framework based on Message Passing Networks (MPNs). By operating directly on the graph domain, our method can reason globally over an entire set of detections and predict final solutions. Hence, we show that learning in MOT does not need to be restricted to feature extraction, but it can also be applied to the data association step. We show a significant improvement in both MOTA and IDF1 on three publicly available benchmarks. Our code is available at https://bit.ly/motsolv.

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Authors
Braso, G., & Leal-Taixe, L.
Venue
2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2020-06
Pages
6246-6256
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2995136401
Cited by
504
References
78
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2026: 28 · 2025: 68 · 2024: 96 · 2023: 95 · 2022: 117 · 2021: 76 · 2020: 24
FWCI
23.81
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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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
multiple object tracking, message passing networks, network flow formulation, data association, tracking-by-detection, graph neural networks, differentiable optimization

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