Online motion agreement tracking

Abstract

This paper proposes a fast online multi-target tracking method, called motion agreement algorithm, which dynamically selects stable object regions to track. The appearance of each object, here pedestrians, is represented by multiple local patches. For each patch, the algorithm computes a local estimate of the direction of motion. By fusion of the agreements between a global estimate of the object motion and each local estimate, the algorithm identifies the object stable regions and enables robust tracking. The proposed patch-based appearance model was integrated into an efficient online tracking system that uses bipartite matching for data association. The experiments on recent pedestrian tracking benchmark sequences show that the proposed method achieves competitive results compared to state-of-the-art methods, including several offline tracking techniques.