Title
Learning of Global Objective for Network Flow in Multi-Object Tracking
Abstract
This paper concerns the problem of multi-object tracking based on the min-cost flow (MCF) formulation, which is conventionally studied as an instance of linear program. Given its computationally tractable inference, the success of MCF tracking largely relies on the learned cost function of underlying linear program. Most previous studies focus on learning the cost function by only taking into account two frames during training, therefore the learned cost function is sub-optimal for MCF where a multi-frame data association must be considered during inference. In order to address this problem, in this paper we propose a novel differentiable framework that ties training and inference to-gether during learning by solving a bi-level optimization problem, where the lower-level solves a linear program and the upper-level contains a loss function that incorpo-rates global tracking result. By back-propagating the loss through differentiable layers via gradient descent, the glob-ally parameterized cost function is explicitly learned and regularized. With this approach, we are able to learn a better objective for global MCF tracking. As a result, we achieve competitive performances compared to the current state-of-the-art methods on the popular multi-object tracking benchmarks such as MOT16, MOT17 and MOT20.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.00865
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Motion and tracking, Pose estimation and tracking, Scene analysis and understanding, Video analysis and understanding
Conference
2022
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuai Li100.34
Yu Kong241224.72
Seyed Hamid Rezatofighi314913.36