Efficient real-time multi-object tracking: a strategy in complex scenarios
摘要
Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) remains challenging, especially in complex scenarios with visually similar targets, frequent interactions, and abrupt movements. Existing methods typically emphasize either high accuracy through sophisticated transformer architectures or real-time efficiency via end-to-end frameworks, yet struggle to achieve both simultaneously. Base on this, we introduce a simple and effective method based on the ByteTrack framework. Three improvements are made tailored for complex scenes. Firstly, we propose a small-scale feature extractor enhanced by exponential moving averages (EMA) to capture fine-grained appearance details. Secondly, we employ Enhanced Correlation Coefficient (ECC)-based nonlinear motion compensation to mitigate abrupt positional shifts. Thirdly, we integrate appearance-motion information into a unified cost matrix for robust identity matching. Extensive experiments on MOT20 and SportsMOT datasets validate that our method achieves competitive performance while ensuring real-time inference, achieving a DetA accuracy of 59.5%, an AssA accuracy of 61.1%, and an overall tracking accuracy (HOTA) of 61.4%.