Recently, tracking-by-detection has become a popular paradigm in Multiple-object tracking (MOT) for its concise pipeline. Many current works first associate the detections to form track proposals and then score proposals by manual functions to select the best. However, long-term tracking information is lost in this way due to detection failure or heavy occlusion. In this paper, the Extendable Multiple Nodes Tracking framework (EMNT) is introduced to model the association. Instead of detections, EMNT creates four basic types of nodes including correct, false, dummy and termination to generally model the tracking procedure. Further, we propose a General Recurrent Tracking Unit (RTU++) to score track proposals by capturing long-term information. In addition, we present an efficient generation method of simulated tracking data to overcome the dilemma of limited available data in MOT. The experiments show that our methods achieve state-of-the-art performance on MOT17, MOT20 and HiEve benchmarks. Meanwhile, RTU++ can be flexibly plugged into other trackers such as MHT, and bring significant improvements. The additional experiments on MOTS20 and CTMC-v1 also demonstrate the generalization ability of RTU++ trained by simulated data in various scenarios.
Data association is one of the key research in tracking-bydetection framework. Due to frequent interactions among targets, there are various relationships among trajectories in crowded scenes which leads to problems in data association, such as association ambiguity, association omission, etc. To handle these problems, we propose hypothesis-testing based tracking (HTBT) framework to build potential associations between target by constructing and testing hypotheses. In addition, a spatio-temporal interaction graph (STIG) model is introduced to describe the basic interaction patterns of trajectories and test the potential hypotheses. Based on network flow optimization, we formulate offline tracking as a MAP problem. Experimental results show that our tracking framework improves the robustness of tracklet association when detection failure occurs during tracking. On the public MOT16, MOT17 and MOT20 benchmark, our method achieves competitive results compared with other state-of-the-art methods.
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