A novel tracking method for dense honeybee colonies using pixel personality.
problem Tracking large numbers of densely-arranged, interacting objects in a 2D environment.
method Segmentation-based object detection followed by adaptive object recognition through visual appearance.
result Reconstructed ~46% of trajectories in 5 minutes and 71% of tracks for at least 2 minutes.
From human crowds to cells in tissue, the detection and efficient tracking of multiple objects in dense configurations is an important and unsolved problem. In the past, limitations of image analysis have restricted studies of dense groups to tracking a single or subset of marked individuals, or to coarse-grained group…
BootsTAP uses real-world data to improve TAP tracking performance.
problem Lack of large-scale groundtruth training data for TAP.
method Bootstrapped training with a self-supervised student-teacher setup.
result State-of-the-art performance on TAP-Vid benchmarks.
This paper optimizes object tracking on edge devices with small matrices.
problem Efficiently tracking objects in video sequences on edge devices with small matrices.
method Parallelized a Simple Online and Real-time Tracking (SORT) application on shared-memory multicores.
result Throughput-based parallelization technique outperforms multi-threading for small matrices.
New architecture tracks objects in cluttered scenes without supervision.
problem Learning to track objects in large scenes with many objects.
method Spatially invariant computations and representations.
result Outperforms competing methods in tracking objects in cluttered scenes.
A new method for tracking objects using diverse templates.
problem Improving visual tracking performance and robustness.
method Proposes a framework that uses additional object templates and a new diversity measure in siamese feature space.
result Achieves strong empirical results on tracking benchmarks, improving performance and robustness.
Detects synchronized behavior in streaming data.
problem Tracking synchronized behavior in time-stamped tuples.
method AugSplicing algorithm for streaming dense block detection.
result Effective and robust in detecting anomalous behavior.
End-to-end multi-object tracking learns object interactions.
problem Object tracking ignores interactions between objects.
method End-to-end relational reasoning model MOHART.
result Relational reasoning improves tracking and prediction.
Bayesian nonparametric models improve multi-object tracking robustness and flexibility.
problem Challenges in multi-object tracking, including time-dependent cardinality, unordered measurements, and object labeling.
method Robust nonparametric methods for state prior modeling, incorporating dynamic object birth/death and survival.
result Proposed models estimate time-dependent object cardinality, provide object labeling, and identify associated measurements.
Bayesian methods improve tracking multiple objects through dynamic dependencies.
problem Tracking multiple objects with time-varying cardinality and unordered measurements.
method Employing Bayesian nonparametric models, specifically dependent Dirichlet and Pitman-Yor processes, for state estimation and Monte Carlo sampling for trajectory learning.
result The proposed methods outperform existing algorithms in estimating the time-varying number of objects and identifying object associations.
Improved tracking and prediction of moving objects in visual data streams.
problem Tracking and predicting multiple moving objects in visual data streams.
method Disentangled latent state-space model with amortized variational Bayesian inference.
result Significantly improved long-term prediction and object decomposition in the presence of occlusions.
Online Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) from videos is a challenging computer vision task which has been extensively studied for decades. Most of the existing MOT algorithms are based on the Tracking-by-Detection (TBD) paradigm combined with popular machine learning approaches which largely reduce the human effort to tune a…
In this work, we introduce a deep-structured conditional random field (DS-CRF) model for the purpose of state-based object silhouette tracking. The proposed DS-CRF model consists of a series of state layers, where each state layer spatially characterizes the object silhouette at a particular point in time. The interact…
PiVoT improves real-time multi-object detection and tracking in clutter.
problem Challenges in multi-object detection and tracking from noisy point clouds.
method Variational inference for fast, clutter-resilient multi-object tracking.
result Substantial performance improvement over existing Bayesian trackers.
Object tracking is an ubiquitous problem that appears in many applications such as remote sensing, audio processing, computer vision, human-machine interfaces, human-robot interaction, etc. Although thoroughly investigated in computer vision, tracking a time-varying number of persons remains a challenging open problem.…
Paper introduces a Bayesian nonparametric approach for tracking multiple objects with spawning events.
problem Tracking multiple objects with birth and death events (spawning).
method Bayesian nonparametric approach with MCMC sampling for unknown number of objects.
result Advantages of nonparametric modeling for scenarios with spawning events.
Survey of deep learning methods for video multi-object tracking.
problem Tracking multiple objects in video sequences.
method Review of deep learning approaches applied to MOT stages.
result Identification of similarities among top-performing methods.
This paper proposes a technique for the unsupervised detection and tracking of arbitrary objects in videos. It is intended to reduce the need for detection and localization methods tailored to specific object types and serve as a general framework applicable to videos with varied objects, backgrounds, and image qualiti…
A robust visual tracking system requires an object appearance model that is able to handle occlusion, pose, and illumination variations in the video stream. This can be difficult to accomplish when the model is trained using only a single image. In this paper, we first propose a tracking approach based on affine subspa…
The tracking method based on the extreme learning machine (ELM) is efficient and effective. ELM randomly generates input weights and biases in the hidden layer, and then calculates and computes the output weights by reducing the iterative solution to the problem of linear equations. Therefore, ELM offers the satisfying…
One of the key challenges of visual perception is to extract abstract models of 3D objects and object categories from visual measurements, which are affected by complex nuisance factors such as viewpoint, occlusion, motion, and deformations. Starting from the recent idea of viewpoint factorization, we propose a new app…
AdaPart efficiently samples permanent distributions, improving tracking performance.
problem Computing the permanent of non-negative matrices efficiently.
method AdaPart: simple, efficient method for sampling from unnormalized distributions.
result AdaPart provides tight bounds on the permanent with high probability and polynomial runtime.
Paper introduces TAP-Vid, a benchmark for tracking any point in videos.
problem Tackles the problem of tracking arbitrary physical points on surfaces over longer video clips.
method Formalizes the problem as TAP, introduces TAP-Vid benchmark, uses crowdsourced pipeline with optical flow estimates, proposes TAP-Net model.
result TAP-Net outperforms all prior methods on TAP-Vid benchmark when trained on synthetic data.
New security patch for object tracking in self-driving cars mitigates vulnerabilities.
problem Vulnerability of object tracking in self-driving cars, especially Kalman Filter-based trackers.
method Adaptive strategy to balance focus on observations and predictions based on deviation anomaly index.
result Certified effectiveness against a generalized hijacking attack model.
A novel tracking algorithm models dynamic objects as ellipsoids with time-varying orientation.
problem Tracking dynamic objects with time-varying orientation.
method Random matrix framework with variational Bayes for non-linear inference.
result The method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in accuracy and robustness.
Accurate and robust tracking of surrounding road participants plays an important role in autonomous driving. However, there is usually no prior knowledge of the number of tracking targets due to object emergence, object disappearance and false alarms. To overcome this challenge, we propose a generic vehicle tracking fr…
EggNet reconstructs particle tracks from hits using evolving graph attention networks.
problem Particle track reconstruction is computationally expensive and combinatorial.
method EggNet uses a one-shot object condensation approach with evolving graph attention networks.
result EggNet outperforms methods requiring fixed input graphs on TrackML dataset.
nuScenes dataset includes multimodal sensor data for autonomous vehicle training.
problem Training robust detection and tracking methods for autonomous vehicles.
method Presented the first multimodal dataset with 6 cameras, 5 radars, and 1 lidar, 360-degree field of view.
result 7x more annotations and 100x more images than KITTI dataset.
Framework tracks and predicts multiple objects in autonomous driving.
problem Challenges in multi-target tracking due to object number fluctuation and occlusion.
method Constrained mixture sequential Monte Carlo (CMSMC) method with a mixture representation.
result Framework can track and predict multiple objects simultaneously without explicit data association.
The paper provides guarantees for feedback control with sensor errors.
problem Certifying performance and safety in feedback control systems with sensor errors.
method Solving a supervised learning problem to characterize sensor errors and providing uniform error bounds.
result Finite-time convergence rate on sub-optimality of using a regressor in closed-loop for waypoint tracking.
The study characterizes train tracks and measured laminations on infinite surfaces.
problem Characterizing geodesic laminations on infinite surfaces.
method Defining train tracks and parametrizing measured laminations by edge weight systems.
result A homeomorphism exists between bounded measured laminations and edge weight systems.
TrackNet tracks tiny balls in sports videos with high precision.
problem Accurately tracking tiny and fast-moving objects like tennis balls in sports videos.
method Developed a heatmap-based deep learning network, TrackNet, trained on public and additional labeled videos.
result Achieved high precision (99.7%) in ball tracking on public domain videos.
Improved video tracking accuracy with active learning.
problem Efficiently predicting object matches in videos with active learning.
method Adversarial approach for active learning with structured prediction domains.
result Better accuracy and computational efficiency for object tracking.
Study irrational rotations and construct 2-filling rays on infinite type surfaces.
problem Understanding dense orbits in skew product transformations.
method Skew product transformation with continued fraction analysis.
result Existence of infinite cliques of 2-filling rays on infinite type surfaces.
Paper introduces EnDKF for more accurate pose tracking.
problem Accurate pose tracking with directional uncertainty.
method EnDKF integrates unit-quaternion attitude representation for better directional uncertainty capture.
result Significant reduction in error compared to traditional methods.
This paper uses Factored Latent Analysis (FLA) to learn a factorized, segmental representation for observations of tracked objects over time. Factored Latent Analysis is latent class analysis in which the observation space is subdivided and each aspect of the original space is represented by a separate latent class mod…
We study the tracking problem, namely, estimating the hidden state of an object over time, from unreliable and noisy measurements. The standard framework for the tracking problem is the generative framework, which is the basis of solutions such as the Bayesian algorithm and its approximation, the particle filters. Howe…
Neural network Kalman filtering improves 3D ultrasound object tracking.
problem Accurate and robust 3D positional estimation from 2D ultrasound data.
method Neural network training for out-of-plane offset estimation, combined with Kalman filtering.
result Mean error of 0.1mm for simulated data, 0.2mm for experimental data.
The paper analyzes Adam and SGD in nonstationary optimization, revealing tradeoffs between noise and drift.
problem Analyzing Adam and SGD in nonstationary optimization problems.
method Theoretical analysis of Adam and SGD under non-stationary stochastic objectives, separating two regimes.
result Characterizes the tradeoff between noise and drift in Adam and SGD, revealing when adaptive step-sizing is beneficial or harmful.
We present Sequential Attend, Infer, Repeat (SQAIR), an interpretable deep generative model for videos of moving objects. It can reliably discover and track objects throughout the sequence of frames, and can also generate future frames conditioning on the current frame, thereby simulating expected motion of objects. Th…
A drone-based MOT algorithm tracks vehicles using neural network detections and TPMBM filter.
problem Tracking multiple vehicles from drone-mounted cameras.
method Neural network for object detection, TPMBM filter for trajectory estimation, von-Mises Fisher distribution for DOA.
result TPMBM filter optimally estimates vehicle trajectories.
Deep learning improves automatic image segmentation.
problem Automatic object localization and boundary delineation in images and medical scans.
method Proposed and evaluated novel dilated dense encoder-decoder architectures for salient object segmentation and lesion localization in medical images.
result Proposed architectures outperform state-of-the-art models in accuracy and efficiency.
RL approach for target tracking with unknown dynamics and sensor control.
problem Tracking an unknown target with sensor control.
method Track-MDP formulation for RL, compared with POMDP.
result Optimal RL policy tracks all target paths with certainty.
This paper presents GRASTA (Grassmannian Robust Adaptive Subspace Tracking Algorithm), an efficient and robust online algorithm for tracking subspaces from highly incomplete information. The algorithm uses a robust l1-norm cost function in order to estimate and track non-stationary subspaces when the streaming data …
MERL uses evolutionary and gradient-based methods to optimize sparse team-based and dense agent-specific rewards in multiagent coordination.
problem Training multiagent reinforcement learning policies on sparse team-based rewards is difficult and relying solely on agent-specific rewards is sub-optimal.
method MERL employs a split-level training platform with an evolutionary algorithm and a gradient-based optimizer, transferring skills between the two processes.
result MERL significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on coordination benchmarks.
Edge device deep learning improved with noise handling model.
problem Noise and low quality data degrade deep learning performance on edge devices.
method Mixture of Pre-processing Experts (MoPE) model with adversarially trained autoencoder.
result The MoPE model achieves better accuracy on noisy images without sacrificing clean image accuracy.
Paper compares machine learning methods for predicting target motion.
problem Challenges in accurately modeling target dynamics due to mismatch between assumed and true motion.
method Three machine learning methods (GPs, IMM, LSTM) compared against EKF.
result LSTM network outperforms other methods in real-world scenarios.
Random extrapolation speeds up coordinate descent for sparse and dense data.
problem Efficiently solving primal-dual coordinate descent for sparse and dense data.
method Adapts to sparsity and uses large step sizes for dense data, proving linear convergence under metric subregularity.
result Linear convergence under metric subregularity and optimal sublinear convergence rates in general convex-concave problems.