Simple online and realtime tracking

Alex Bewley, Zongyuan Ge, Lionel Ott, Fabio Ramos, Ben Upcroft
2016 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)  
This paper explores a pragmatic approach to multiple object tracking where the main focus is to associate objects efficiently for online and realtime applications. To this end, detection quality is identified as a key factor influencing tracking performance, where changing the detector can improve tracking by up to 18.9%. Despite only using a rudimentary combination of familiar techniques such as the Kalman Filter and Hungarian algorithm for the tracking components, this approach achieves an
more » ... uracy comparable to state-of-the-art online trackers. Furthermore, due to the simplicity of our tracking method, the tracker updates at a rate of 260 Hz which is over 20x faster than other state-of-the-art trackers.
doi:10.1109/icip.2016.7533003 dblp:conf/icip/BewleyGORU16 fatcat:owzjy7j455cv7peqftncfykiku