Title
Online tracking of ants based on deep association metrics: method, dataset and evaluation
Abstract
•We introduce an online MOT framework to track ant individuals. This framework combines both motion and appearance matching, which effectively prevents trajectory fragments and ID switches from long-term occlusion caused by frequent interactions of ants, achieving efficient and high-precision tracking.•We obtain ant appearance features based on the ResNet model with cosine similarity metric, to track unlabeled ants for a long time in a fixed position camera. The experiments show that our method is successful and robust with only a small size (N = 50) of the training dataset, which makes it feasible to be applied in real applications with no need to construct a large training dataset.•We construct a dataset of ant tracking with a total size of 46091 samples. We built the dataset following the standard MOT formulation. In contrast to an extensive collection of human tracking datasets, there are few datasets of ant tracking which are publicly accessible. We believe this dataset will benefit future works with relevant research objectives.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.patcog.2020.107233
Pattern Recognition
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Ant tracking,ResNet model,Mahalanobis distance,Appearance descriptors
Journal
103
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0031-3203
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaoyan Cao100.34
Shihui Guo24415.97
Juncong Lin310520.73
Wenshu Zhang400.34
Minghong Liao59018.97