Tracking-Assisted Object Detection with Event Cameras

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Autori principali: Yen, Ting-Kang, Morawski, Igor, Dangi, Shusil, He, Kai, Lin, Chung-Yi, Yeh, Jia-Fong, Su, Hung-Ting, Hsu, Winston
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author Yen, Ting-Kang
Morawski, Igor
Dangi, Shusil
He, Kai
Lin, Chung-Yi
Yeh, Jia-Fong
Su, Hung-Ting
Hsu, Winston
author_facet Yen, Ting-Kang
Morawski, Igor
Dangi, Shusil
He, Kai
Lin, Chung-Yi
Yeh, Jia-Fong
Su, Hung-Ting
Hsu, Winston
contents Event-based object detection has recently garnered attention in the computer vision community due to the exceptional properties of event cameras, such as high dynamic range and no motion blur. However, feature asynchronism and sparsity cause invisible objects due to no relative motion to the camera, posing a significant challenge in the task. Prior works have studied various implicit-learned memories to retain as many temporal cues as possible. However, implicit memories still struggle to preserve long-term features effectively. In this paper, we consider those invisible objects as pseudo-occluded objects and aim to detect them by tracking through occlusions. Firstly, we introduce the visibility attribute of objects and contribute an auto-labeling algorithm to not only clean the existing event camera dataset but also append additional visibility labels to it. Secondly, we exploit tracking strategies for pseudo-occluded objects to maintain their permanence and retain their bounding boxes, even when features have not been available for a very long time. These strategies can be treated as an explicit-learned memory guided by the tracking objective to record the displacements of objects across frames. Lastly, we propose a spatio-temporal feature aggregation module to enrich the latent features and a consistency loss to increase the robustness of the overall pipeline. We conduct comprehensive experiments to verify our method's effectiveness where still objects are retained, but real occluded objects are discarded. The results demonstrate that (1) the additional visibility labels can assist in supervised training, and (2) our method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches with a significant improvement of 7.9% absolute mAP.
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spellingShingle Tracking-Assisted Object Detection with Event Cameras
Yen, Ting-Kang
Morawski, Igor
Dangi, Shusil
He, Kai
Lin, Chung-Yi
Yeh, Jia-Fong
Su, Hung-Ting
Hsu, Winston
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Event-based object detection has recently garnered attention in the computer vision community due to the exceptional properties of event cameras, such as high dynamic range and no motion blur. However, feature asynchronism and sparsity cause invisible objects due to no relative motion to the camera, posing a significant challenge in the task. Prior works have studied various implicit-learned memories to retain as many temporal cues as possible. However, implicit memories still struggle to preserve long-term features effectively. In this paper, we consider those invisible objects as pseudo-occluded objects and aim to detect them by tracking through occlusions. Firstly, we introduce the visibility attribute of objects and contribute an auto-labeling algorithm to not only clean the existing event camera dataset but also append additional visibility labels to it. Secondly, we exploit tracking strategies for pseudo-occluded objects to maintain their permanence and retain their bounding boxes, even when features have not been available for a very long time. These strategies can be treated as an explicit-learned memory guided by the tracking objective to record the displacements of objects across frames. Lastly, we propose a spatio-temporal feature aggregation module to enrich the latent features and a consistency loss to increase the robustness of the overall pipeline. We conduct comprehensive experiments to verify our method's effectiveness where still objects are retained, but real occluded objects are discarded. The results demonstrate that (1) the additional visibility labels can assist in supervised training, and (2) our method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches with a significant improvement of 7.9% absolute mAP.
title Tracking-Assisted Object Detection with Event Cameras
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18330