arXiv:2609.17427v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time multi-object tracking systems remain highly vulnerable to full and long-term occlusion, where targets temporarily or completely disappear f...
This paper conducts a systematic empirical study of multi‑object tracking (MOT) algorithms, focusing on how detection and association components affect overall performance. By evaluating state‑of‑the‑art methods on benchmarks such as MOT16/17/20, SportsMOT, DanceTrack, and CrowdTrack, the authors find that detection quality has a far greater impact than association strategies, and that transformer‑based end‑to‑end models are more robust to detection variations but computationally expensive. The study provides a unified pipeline diagram and practical guidance for researchers and practitioners in selecting and designing MOT systems.
arXiv:2607. 17157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to localize multiple objects in videos while preserving their identities over time.
arXiv:2603. 24016v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) has traditionally focused on a few specific categories, restricting its applicability to real-world scenarios involving diverse objects.
VastMAT is a large‑scale multi‑animal tracking benchmark featuring 2,947 videos, 337 animal categories, and over 3.6 million bounding boxes with 22,883 identity trajectories. It emphasizes high‑quality, expert‑reviewed annotations and introduces Seen‑category and Unseen‑category evaluation protocols, revealing significant challenges in tracking unseen animals. The authors also propose a lightweight Center‑Distance‑Augmented Association module that boosts HOTA scores for existing MOT methods without extra training.
arXiv:2602. 14771v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The human visual system tracks objects by integrating current observations with previously observed information, adapting to target and scene changes, and reasoning about occlusion at fine granularity.
arXiv:2609.12261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-object tracking (MOT) is dominated by the tracking-by-detection paradigm, whose methods typically rely on a small set of hyperparameters that are...
arXiv:2606. 23604v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The tracking-by-detection paradigm in multi-object tracking (MOT) typically relies on static appearance descriptors to complement motion estimation.
ByteTraX is a lightweight enhancement to the ByteTrack multi‑object tracking architecture that introduces a single unified matching threshold and stricter track initiation criteria to reduce erroneous track reclassification and identity switches. The method yields consistent performance gains across several benchmarks—GMOT‑40, LC‑MOT, SportsMOT, TeamTrack, DAMUNT, and DeepSea‑MOT—while boosting processing speed by over 10%. Quantitatively, ByteTraX achieves more than a 40% drop in identity switches, with mean improvements of 3.6 in HOTA, 5.6 in IDF1, and 6.3 FPS.
arXiv:2603.15812v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-View Multi-Object Tracking (MV-MOT) aims to localize and maintain consistent identities of objects observed by multiple sensors. This task is...
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.
GRACE is a camera‑efficient multi‑view pedestrian tracker that reduces the number of required cameras while maintaining high tracking accuracy. It combines volumetric‑guided fusion of homography‑based BEV features with 3D‑lifted features, uses ray conditioning to incorporate each camera’s viewing direction, and employs BEV Track Recovery to continue existing tracks with low‑confidence detections. On the WildTrack dataset, GRACE raises MOTA from 83.54 to 91.07 compared to the baseline TrackTacular.