2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

19-22 September 2021 • Anchorage, Alaska, USA

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2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

19-22 September 2021 • Anchorage, Alaska, USA

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Paper IDARS-1.12
Paper Title Robust Unsupervised Multi-Object Tracking in Noisy Environments
Authors Huck Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States; Mohit Chhabra, Hitachi, Japan; Yi-Chieh Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States; Quan Kong, Tomoaki Yoshinaga, Tomokazu Murakami, Hitachi, Japan
SessionARS-1: Object Detection
LocationArea I
Session Time:Tuesday, 21 September, 15:30 - 17:00
Presentation Time:Tuesday, 21 September, 15:30 - 17:00
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Topic Image and Video Analysis, Synthesis, and Retrieval: Image & Video Mid-Level Analysis
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Abstract Physical processes, camera movement, and unpredictable environmental conditions like the presence of dust can induce noise and artifacts in video feeds. We observe that popular unsupervised MOT methods are dependent on noise-free inputs. We show that the addition of a small amount of artificial random noise causes a sharp degradation in model performance on benchmark metrics. We resolve this problem by introducing a robust unsupervised multi-object tracking (MOT) model: AttU-Net. The proposed single-head attention model helps limit the negative impact of noise by learning visual representations at different segment scales. AttU-Net shows better unsupervised MOT tracking performance over variational inference-based state-of-the-art baselines. We evaluate our method in the MNIST-MOT and the Atari game video benchmark. We also provide two extended video datasets: ``Kuzushiji-MNIST MOT'' which consists of moving Japanese characters and ``Fashion-MNIST MOT'' to validate the effectiveness of the MOT models.