No Train Yet Gain: Towards Generic Multi-Object Tracking in Sports and Beyond

Tomasz Stanczyk, Seongro Yoon, Francois Bremond; Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) Workshops, 2025, pp. 6039-6048

Abstract


Multi-object tracking (MOT) is essential for sports analytics, enabling performance evaluation and tactical insights. However, tracking in sports is challenging due to fast movements, occlusions, and camera shifts. Traditional tracking-by-detection methods require extensive tuning, while segmentation-based approaches struggle with track processing. We propose McByte, a tracking-by-detection framework that integrates temporally propagated segmentation mask as an association cue to improve robustness without per-video tuning. Unlike many existing methods, McByte does not require training, relying solely on pre-trained models and object detectors commonly used in the community. Evaluated on SportsMOT, DanceTrack, SoccerNet-tracking 2022 and MOT17, McByte demonstrates strong performance across sports and general pedestrian tracking. Our results highlight the benefits of mask propagation for a more adaptable and generalizable MOT approach. Code will be made available at https://github.com/tstanczyk95/McByte.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Stanczyk_2025_CVPR, author = {Stanczyk, Tomasz and Yoon, Seongro and Bremond, Francois}, title = {No Train Yet Gain: Towards Generic Multi-Object Tracking in Sports and Beyond}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2025}, pages = {6039-6048} }