Multiple Hypothesis Tracking Revisited

Chanho Kim, Fuxin Li, Arridhana Ciptadi, James M. Rehg; Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015, pp. 4696-4704

Abstract


This paper revisits the classical multiple hypotheses tracking (MHT) algorithm in a tracking-by-detection framework. The success of MHT largely depends on the ability to maintain a small list of potential hypotheses, which can be facilitated with the accurate object detectors that are currently available. We demonstrate that a classical MHT implementation from the 90's can come surprisingly close to the performance of state-of-the-art methods on standard benchmark datasets. In order to further utilize the strength of MHT in exploiting higher-order information, we introduce a method for training online appearance models for each track hypothesis. We show that appearance models can be learned efficiently via a regularized least squares framework, requiring only a few extra operations for each hypothesis branch. We obtain state-of-the-art results on popular tracking-by-detection datasets such as PETS and the recent MOT challenge.

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@InProceedings{Kim_2015_ICCV,
author = {Kim, Chanho and Li, Fuxin and Ciptadi, Arridhana and Rehg, James M.},
title = {Multiple Hypothesis Tracking Revisited},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
month = {December},
year = {2015}
}