Sensor-Agnostic Graph-Aware Kalman Filter for Multi-Modal Multi-Object Tracking
摘要
Recent progress in open-source object detection techniques has significantly advanced Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) methodologies, primarily under the tracking-by-detection paradigm. To enhance the robustness and reliability of MOT systems, recent research has proposed integrating information gathered from diverse sensors. However, many Kalman filter-based MOT approaches assume the independence of object trajectories, overlooking potential inter-object relationships. While some efforts have been made to incorporate these relationships, they often concentrate on learning feature representations to facilitate better association. Moreover, the existing filter-based method for estimating graphs from noisy data is unsuitable for online MOT applications. To alleviate these problems, we introduce a Sensor Agnostic Graph-Aware (SAGA) Kalman filter, which is the first online state estimation technique designed to fuse multi-modal graphs derived from noisy multi-sensor data. We validate the effectiveness of our proposed framework through extensive experiments conducted on both synthetic and real-world driving dataset (nuScenes). Our results showcase an improvement in MOTA and a reduction in estimated position errors (MOTP) and identity switches (IDS) for tracked objects using the SAGA-KF.