Motion Segmentation and Multiple Object Tracking by Correlation Co-Clustering

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Contributors

  • Margret Keuper - , University of Mannheim (Author)
  • Siyu Tang - , Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Tübingen (Author)
  • Bjoern Andres - , Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, University of Tübingen (Author)
  • Thomas Brox - , University of Freiburg (Author)
  • Bernt Schiele - , Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Author)

Abstract

Models for computer vision are commonly defined either w.r.t. low-level concepts such as pixels that are to be grouped, or w.r.t. high-level concepts such as semantic objects that are to be detected and tracked. Combining bottom-up grouping with top-down detection and tracking, although highly desirable, is a challenging problem. We state this joint problem as a co-clustering problem that is principled and tractable by existing algorithms. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach by combining bottom-up motion segmentation by grouping of point trajectories with high-level multiple object tracking by clustering of bounding boxes. We show that solving the joint problem is beneficial at the low-level, in terms of the FBMS59 motion segmentation benchmark, and at the high-level, in terms of the Multiple Object Tracking benchmarks MOT15, MOT16, and the MOT17 challenge, and is state-of-the-art in some metrics.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number1
Pages (from-to)140-153
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence : TPAMI
Volume42
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

External IDs

Scopus 85055056072
dblp journals/pami/KeuperTABS20
ORCID /0000-0001-5036-9162/work/161407122

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