arXiv Computer Vision

TQD-Track: Temporal Query Denoising for 3D Multi-Object Tracking

TQD-Track introduces Temporal Query Denoising (TQD) for 3D Multi‑Object Tracking, extending query denoising beyond single frames by initializing denoising queries from previous‑frame ground truths and propagating them as independent association candidates. The method enriches track queries with temporal context and instance‑specific features, and incorporates diverse noise types to emulate real‑world tracking challenges. Experiments on nuScenes and Argoverse 2 show consistent improvements across multiple MOT baselines with only training‑process modifications.

arXiv AI
Sep 2

Beyond the Image Plane: World-Grounded Queries for Multi-Object Tracking

The paper introduces PLANET, a multi‑object tracker that transcends traditional image‑plane limitations by incorporating 3D scene geometry into its query formation. By lifting 2D tracking datasets into 3D and embedding reconstructed geometry into features and positional encodings, PLANET encourages queries to encode object positions. An auxiliary 3D location prediction task and a dual‑resolution temporal memory further enhance performance, enabling state‑of‑the‑art results on three diverse benchmarks.

By Orcun Cetintas, Guillem Bras\'o, Tim Meinhardt, Laura Leal-Taix\'e
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 18

Probing Association Instability with Track-State Perturbations for Clip-Level Active Learning in Query-Propagation Multi-Object Tracking

Training query-propagation end-to-end multi-object tracking (MOT) models requires dense bounding-box and identity annotations across video sequences, making dataset construction expensive. Clip-level active learning reduces this cost by selecting video clips for annotation, but prior acquisition criteria based on output-level temporal uncertainty may miss clips whose informativeness comes from association instability in propagated track states.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

SelfMOTR: Revisiting MOTR with Self-Generating Detection Priors

SelfMOTR proposes a detector‑free approach to multi‑object tracking that decouples proposal discovery from association by generating internal detection priors. The method builds on end‑to‑end transformer trackers, showing that joint detection‑association decoding retains hidden detection capacity and can be leveraged without external detectors. Experiments demonstrate competitive results, achieving 69.2 HOTA on DanceTrack and 71.1 HOTA on Bird Flock Tracking.

By Fabian G\"ulhan, Emil Mededovic, Yuli Wu, Johannes Stegmaier