JDECMC: Improving JDE based multi-object tracking with Camera Motion Compensation

Jointly Detection and Embedding (JDE) based approaches estimate bounding boxes and embedding features of objects with a single network in multi-object tracking. Due to the crowded scenarios or non-rigid camera motion, the bounding box location in the image can shift dramatically, which affects the performance of the trackers. In addition, JDE-based approaches fuse the target appearance information and location information by applying the same rule, which could fail to associate when the target is lost or occluded. To address these issues, we propose a simple yet effective architecture based on JDE, called JDECMC. Our approach incorporates the embedding and location distance of the object, which combines embedding cosine distance and location distance of objects, as well as Camera Motion Compensation (CMC) to predict the correct location of the bounding box. This is especially useful in scenarios where dynamic camera motion can cause the bounding box to shift significantly. By enhancing the accuracy of the tracking system, JDECMC achieves a MOTA of 74.2%, 72.0%, and 90.5% on the MOT17, MOT20 and DanceTrack benchmark datasets, respectively, while also scoring an IDF1 of 72.5%, 72.4%, and 79.8% on those benchmarks. The experimental results demonstrate our effectiveness and advantages over the other one-shot trackers.