Long-short Term Prediction for Occluded Multiple Object Tracking
Zhihong Sun, Jun Chen, Mithun Mukherjee, Weijian Ruan, Chao Liang, Yi Yu, Dan Zhang · 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) · 2021
Online multiple object tracking (MOT) is a challenging problem in complex scenes due to frequent occlusions. Most of the existing MOT methods tend to focus on addressing an individual type of occlusion, which cannot meet the requirements of real complex scenes. In this paper, we propose a unified MOT framework that combines long- and short-term prediction models for online multiple object tracking. Basically, The short-term prediction model consists of an appearance-based model and a motion-based model, aiming at exploiting the appearance and motion of objects to handle different types of occlusions jointly. Furthermore, we adopt a cubic spline interpolation as a long-term prediction model to estimate the trajectory of the target in occluded frames. To handle different lengths of occlusions, an adaptive weighted fusion model is proposed to combine the short-term prediction model, and the long-term prediction model. Experimental results on several challenging datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods.