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ASDTracker: Adaptively Sparse Detection With Attention-Guided Refinement for Efficient Multi-Object Tracking

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Yueying Wang
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Chenyang Yan
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赵才荣 (Cairong Zhao)
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张卫东 (Weidong Zhang)
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Dan Zeng
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2026.3662594delete
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Abstract

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Tracking-by-Detection paradigms shine in generic multi-object tracking (MOT), while their compact construction hinders the real-time applications. In this work, we attribute the substantial computational burden to two expensive components, i.e. detection and re-identification. Building upon the principle of adaptively maintaining acceptable inference efficiency, we present Adaptively Sparse Detection with attention-guided refinement (ASDTracker) for efficient tracking. In specific, our ASDTracker rapidly assess the short-term and long-term occlusion, dynamically determining the usage of the expensive detector. For non-key frames, we efficiently refine small-size crops out of Kalman Filter predictions and introduce the noisy shadow labels to robustly train this refinement network. Additionally, we substitute the lightweight appearance representation for the heavy ReID network, which efficiently extracts sufficient appearance cues in the coarsely quantized color spaces. Extensive experiments on four benchmarks demonstrate that ASDTracker achieves competitive performance in generalization and robustness under favorable inference speed. Moreover, the efficient tracking deployment is further implemented to an unmanned surface vehicle with high accuracy and low latency in real-world scenarios.
Keywords:
Multi-object tracking
sparse detection
key-frame selection
attention-guided refinement
data association

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IEEE Transactions on Image Processing cover
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
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13.7
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H
henan institute of science and technology
Scholars:
946
Papers: 301
Citations: 2
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tongji university
Scholars:
7.9W
Papers: 6.0W
Citations: 98
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shanghai university
Scholars:
3.9W
Papers: 2.7W
Citations: 52
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