DiffMOT: A Real-time Diffusion-based Multiple Object Tracker with Non-linear Prediction
<|reference_start|>DiffMOT: A Real-time Diffusion-based Multiple Object Tracker with Non-linear Prediction: In Multiple Object Tracking, objects often exhibit non-linear motion of acceleration and deceleration, with irregular direction changes. Tacking-by-detection (TBD) trackers with Kalman Filter motion prediction work well in pedestrian-dominant scenarios but fall short in complex situations when multiple objects perform non-linear and diverse motion simultaneously. To tackle the complex non-linear motion, we propose a real-time diffusion-based MOT approach named DiffMOT. Specifically, for the motion predictor component, we propose a novel Decoupled Diffusion-based Motion Predictor (D$^2$MP). It models the entire distribution of various motion presented by the data as a whole. It also predicts an individual object's motion conditioning on an individual's historical motion information. Furthermore, it optimizes the diffusion process with much fewer sampling steps. As a MOT tracker, the DiffMOT is real-time at 22.7FPS, and also outperforms the state-of-the-art on DanceTrack and SportsMOT datasets with $62.3\%$ and $76.2\%$ in HOTA metrics, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, DiffMOT is the first to introduce a diffusion probabilistic model into the MOT to tackle non-linear motion prediction.<|reference_end|>
@article{lv2024diffmot:,
    title={DiffMOT: A Real-time Diffusion-based Multiple Object Tracker with
  Non-linear Prediction},
    author={Weiyi Lv and Yuhang Huang and Ning Zhang and Ruei-Sung Lin and Mei Han
  and Dan Zeng},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.02075},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2403.02075},
    primaryClass={cs.CV}
}