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PointTrack: Segment as Points for Efficient Online Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation

July 2020

tl;dr: Use PointNet to extract embedding vectors from instance segmentation masks for tracking.

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This work tackles the newly created track of MOTS (multiple object tracking and segmentation) CVPR 2019. It uses tracking-by-segmentation. It uses existing work of instance segmentation, and the main contribution lies in the association/tracking part.

PointTrack uses a single stage instance segmentation method with a seeding location. This makes it compatible with many instance segmentation method, such as CenterMask or BlendMask.

deepSORT extracts features from image patches, while PointTrack extracts features from 2D point cloud.

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