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G2EMOT: Guided Embedding Enhancement for Multiple Object Tracking in Complex Scenes

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Jianbo Ma
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Fei Wu
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Chunjiang Li
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Chuanming Tang
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Jianlin Zhang *
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Zhiyong Xu
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Meihui Li
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Dongxu Liu
DOI:10.1109/TIM.2024.3449952delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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The one-shot multiple object tracking (MOT) framework simultaneously generates detected targets and re-identification (ReID) embeddings, and employs them to associate previous tracks. However, the continuity between the learning and extraction within the ReID task is unconsciously neglected because of treating them as two isolated stages. This leads to unreliable ReID embeddings and poses a challenge to target matching especially in complex and crowded scenarios. To this end, we propose a guided embedding enhancement multiple object tracker, named G2EMOT. It consists of three innovative designs aiming at improving the embedding representation capability for individual targets. First, based on the original feature map, a global instance-specific context decoupling (GICD) module is devised to facilitate the respective feature learning for detection and ReID branches. Then, a heatmap-guided embedding enhancement (HGEE) module is introduced to connect the processes of embedding learning and extraction, ensuring that the detected target coordinates are accurately aligned with the discriminative ReID embeddings. Finally, to associate and stabilize matched targets, we present a novel two-gate guided embedding update (TG-GEU) strategy that dynamically updates ReID embeddings. With the proposed three components, G2EMOT achieves outstanding performance on popular MOT benchmarks while outperforming the existing one-shot tracking methods by a large margin. In particular, it realizes IDF1 of 76.1% on MOT17 and IDF1 of 74.2% on MOT20. The source codes are released at https://github.com/ydhcg-BoBo/G2EMOT.
Keywords:
Embedding learning
multiple object tracking (MOT)
one-shot tracker
track association
Embedding learning
multiple object tracking (MOT)
one-shot tracker
track association

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement cover
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
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5.9
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institute of optics & electronics, cas
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301
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chinese academy of sciences
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