Re-Identification with Pre-Filtering by Image Quality for Multiple Objects Tracking

The paper considers multiple object tracking. Existing methods tend to be either resource-intensive or prone to high object densities errors failing to provide competitive performance at high frame rates without significant tracking disruptions and error accumulation. We formulate the multiple object tracking problem under the assumption of linearity and independence of the movement of objects. The factorization of the posterior distribution of objects' parameters provides proof of the equivalence of the initial problem and the tracking procedure containing two subtasks: track prediction and assignment of measurements and objects. A modification of the assignment cost is introduced to achieve the stability of assignments in challenging scenarios of tracking, such as multiple objects occlusions and missing detections. We consider adding a term that states to re-identification of the candidate by comparing its descriptor with descriptors from the track history. Given that track measurements are not equal in terms of usefulness for re-identification, we introduce the technique of track descriptor pre-filtering based on quality assessment in order to select the most relevant descriptors for re-identification and reduce method algorithmic complexity. Both known quality assessment methods and an alternative detector-based approach are taken into account. Computational experiments were conducted on MOT20-01, MOT20-02 datasets containing CCTVcameras data in order to compare the proposed method with other approaches. The results showed the computational efficiency of the proposed methods and the increased stability of tracking in complex scenarios.