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MOTS: Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation


Paul Voigtlaender, Michael Krause, Aljoša Ošep, Jonathon Luiten, Berin Balachandar Gnana Sekar, Andreas Geiger, Bastian Leibe
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2019
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This paper extends the popular task of multi-object tracking to multi-object tracking and segmentation (MOTS). Towards this goal, we create dense pixel-level annotations for two existing tracking datasets using a semi-automatic annotation procedure. Our new annotations comprise 65,213 pixel masks for 977 distinct objects (cars and pedestrians) in 10,870 video frames. For evaluation, we extend existing multi-object tracking metrics to this new task. Moreover, we propose a new baseline method which jointly addresses detection, tracking, and segmentation with a single convolutional network. We demonstrate the value of our datasets by achieving improvements in performance when training on MOTS annotations. We believe that our datasets, metrics and baseline will become a valuable resource towards developing multi-object tracking approaches that go beyond 2D bounding boxes. We make our annotations, code, and models available at https://www.vision.rwth-aachen.de/page/mots.

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@inproceedings{Voigtlaender19CVPR_MOTS,
author = {Paul Voigtlaender and Michael Krause and Aljo\u{s}a O\u{s}ep and Jonathon Luiten and Berin Balachandar Gnana Sekar and Andreas Geiger and Bastian Leibe},
title = {{MOTS}: Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation},
booktitle = {CVPR},
year = {2019},
}




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