Hiroshi Mouri

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From Certain to Uncertain: Toward Optimal Solution for Offline Multiple Object Tracking

Kaikai Zhao, Takashi Imaseki, Hiroshi Mouri, Einoshin Suzuki, Tetsu Matsukawa

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Auto-TLDR; Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering with Ensemble of Tracking Experts for Object Tracking

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Affinity measure in object tracking outputs a similarity or distance score for given detections. As an affinity measure is typically imperfect, it generally has an uncertain region in which regarding two groups of detections as the same object or different objects based on the score can be wrong. How to reduce the uncertain region is a major challenge for most similarity-based tracking methods. Early mistakes often result in distribution drifts for tracked objects and this is another major issue for object tracking. In this paper, we propose a new offline tracking method called agglomerative hierarchical clustering with ensemble of tracking experts (AHC_ETE), to tackle the uncertain region and early mistake issues. We conduct tracking from certain to uncertain to reduce early mistakes. Meanwhile, we ensemble multiple tracking experts to reduce the uncertain region as the final one is the union of that of each tracking expert. Experiments on MOT16 datasets demonstrated the effectiveness of our method.