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
End-to-end multi-object trackers have narrowed the gap with classical tracking-by-detection on association-difficult benchmarks. Yet they still make spatially implausible errors no classical tracker w...
arXiv:2607. 17157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to localize multiple objects in videos while preserving their identities over time.
By Yanrong Qin, Xiaoyan Cao, Yao Yao
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.
By Zekun Qian, Wei Feng, Ruize Han, Junhui Hou
arXiv:2610.10391v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: End-to-end multi-object trackers have narrowed the gap with classical tracking-by-detection on association-difficult benchmarks. Yet they still make sp...
By Beno\^it Roussel, Damien Bouet, Liming Chen, Pierre Perrault
arXiv:2609.23431v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Human-object interaction (HOI) detection requires grounding an interacting human-object pair and recognizing the verb that links them, often under seve...
By Junwen Chen, Keiji Yanai