arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

Video Individual Counting and Tracking from Moving Drones: A Benchmark and Methods

The paper introduces MovingDroneCrowd++, a large-scale video dataset for dense crowd counting and tracking from moving drones, featuring varied flight altitudes, camera angles, and lighting. It presents two new methods: GD3A for Video Individual Counting and GIA-Track for Multi-Object Tracking, both leveraging group-wise density assignment and identity association to handle aerial challenges. Experiments demonstrate significant improvements, reducing counting error by 47.4% and boosting tracking accuracy by 64.6%.

By Yaowu Fan, Jia Wan, Tao Han, Andy J. Ma, Wanli Ouyang, Antoni B. Chan
Hugging Face Trending Papers
5d ago

VastMAT: A Large-Scale Multi-Category Benchmark for Multi-Animal Tracking

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 Computer Vision
3d ago

ByteTraX: Enhancing the ByteTrack Architecture with Optimised Thresholding

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.

By Thomas A. O'Shea-Wheller
arXiv AI
Aug 11

ATLASFusion: Aggregation Tracking with Location-Aware Sparse Fusion for Robust Spatio-Temporal Multi-View Pedestrian Tracking

arXiv:2509. 08421v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: For multimedia spatial intelligence through time, multi-view multi-object tracking (MVMOT) suffers from persistent challenges in maintaining consistent object identities across different camera views, leading to tracking inaccuracies.

By Keisuke Toida, Taigo Sakai, Takeshi Nakamura, Hiroshi Shimizu, Kazuhiro Hotta