Multiple Object Tracking using YOLO-based Detector

In computer vision, multiple object tracking (MOT) plays a crucial role in solving many important issues. A common approach of MOT is tracking by detection. Tracking by detection includes occlusions, motion prediction, and object re-identification. From the video frames, a set of detections is extracted for leading the tracking process. These detections are usually associated together for assigning the same identifications to bounding boxes holding the same target. In this article, MOT using YOLO-based detector is proposed. The authors’ method includes object detection, bounding box regression, and bounding box association. First, the YOLOv3 is exploited to be an object detector. The bounding box regression and association is then utilized to forecast the object’s position. To justify their method, two open object tracking benchmarks, 2D MOT2015 and MOT16, were used. Experimental results demonstrate that our method is comparable to several state-of-the-art tracking methods, especially in the impressive results of MOT accuracy and correctly identified detections.