Summary of Vovtrack: Exploring the Potentiality in Videos For Open-vocabulary Object Tracking, by Zekun Qian et al.
VOVTrack: Exploring the Potentiality in Videos for Open-Vocabulary Object Tracking
by Zekun Qian, Ruize Han, Junhui Hou, Linqi Song, Wei Feng
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel method called VOVTrack is proposed to tackle the challenge of open-vocabulary multi-object tracking (OVMOT) in videos. This involves detecting and tracking diverse object categories, including both seen and unseen classes. Existing approaches often combine object detection and multi-object tracking as separate modules, but this paper takes a video-centric approach by integrating object states relevant to MOT and proposing a prompt-guided attention mechanism for accurate localization and classification. The method also leverages self-supervised object similarity learning to facilitate temporal object association. Experimental results show that VOVTrack outperforms existing methods, making it a state-of-the-art solution for OVMOT. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Open-vocabulary multi-object tracking (OVMOT) is a new challenge in video analysis. It’s like trying to find and follow many different objects in a movie or TV show. Some of these objects are familiar, while others are new and unexpected. This paper proposes a new way to solve this problem called VOVTrack. Instead of looking at each frame individually like most approaches do, VOVTrack looks at the whole video and uses clues about what’s happening to track the objects over time. It’s like trying to follow a story in a movie, but instead of characters, we’re tracking objects. The results show that VOVTrack is better than other methods at solving this problem. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Classification » Object detection » Object tracking » Prompt » Self supervised » Tracking
