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Learning Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation From Automatic Annotations

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Porzi, Lorenzo, Hofinger, Markus, Ruiz, Idoia, Serrat, Joan, Bulo, Samuel Rota, Kontschieder, Peter·2020·2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

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In this work we contribute a novel pipeline to automatically generate training data, and to improve over state-of-the-art multi-object tracking and segmentation (MOTS) methods. Our proposed track mining algorithm turns raw street-level videos into high-fidelity MOTS training data, is scalable and overcomes the need of expensive and time-consuming manual annotation approaches. We leverage state-of-the-art instance segmentation results in combination with optical flow predictions, also trained on automatically harvested training data. Our second major contribution is MOTSNet - a deep learning, tracking-by-detection architecture for MOTS - deploying a novel mask-pooling layer for improved object association over time. Training MOTSNet with our automatically extracted data leads to significantly improved sMOTSA scores on the novel KITTI MOTS dataset (+1.9%/+7.5% on cars/pedestrians), and MOTSNet improves by +4.1% over previously best methods on the MOTSChallenge dataset. Our most impressive finding is that we can improve over previous best-performing works, even in complete absence of manually annotated MOTS training data.

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Authors
Porzi, L., Hofinger, M., Ruiz, I., Serrat, J., Bulo, S. R., & Kontschieder, P.
Affiliations
  • Graz University of Technology (AT)
  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
Venue
2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2020-06
Pages
6845-6854
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2993027547
Cited by
82
References
53
Citations by year
2025: 14 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 8
FWCI
4.24
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • 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)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
Agencia Estatal de Investigación
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
multi-target tracking, instance segmentation, automatic training data generation, optical flow, tracking-by-detection, object association

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