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

SelfMOTR: Revisiting MOTR with Self-Generating Detection Priors

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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.

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arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

Beyond the Survey: A Systematic Empirical Study of Detection and Association in Visual MOT

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.

By Linh Van Ma, Juhua Hu, Wei Cheng, Unse Fatima, Moongu Jeon