TQD-Track: Temporal Query Denoising for 3D Multi-Object Tracking

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Auteurs principaux: Ding, Shuxiao, Yang, Yutong, Wiederer, Julian, Braun, Markus, Li, Peizheng, Gall, Juergen, Yang, Bin
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author Ding, Shuxiao
Yang, Yutong
Wiederer, Julian
Braun, Markus
Li, Peizheng
Gall, Juergen
Yang, Bin
author_facet Ding, Shuxiao
Yang, Yutong
Wiederer, Julian
Braun, Markus
Li, Peizheng
Gall, Juergen
Yang, Bin
contents Query denoising has become a standard training strategy for DETR-based detectors by addressing the slow convergence issue. Besides that, query denoising can be used to increase the diversity of training samples for modeling complex scenarios which is critical for Multi-Object Tracking (MOT), showing its potential in MOT application. Existing approaches integrate query denoising within the tracking-by-attention paradigm. However, as the denoising process only happens within the single frame, it cannot benefit the tracker to learn temporal-related information. In addition, the attention mask in query denoising prevents information exchange between denoising and object queries, limiting its potential in improving association using self-attention. To address these issues, we propose TQD-Track, which introduces Temporal Query Denoising (TQD) tailored for MOT, enabling denoising queries to carry temporal information and instance-specific feature representation. We introduce diverse noise types onto denoising queries that simulate real-world challenges in MOT. We analyze our proposed TQD for different tracking paradigms, and find out the paradigm with explicit learned data association module, e.g. tracking-by-detection or alternating detection and association, benefit from TQD by a larger margin. For these paradigms, we further design an association mask in the association module to ensure the consistent interaction between track and detection queries as during inference. Extensive experiments on the nuScenes dataset demonstrate that our approach consistently enhances different tracking methods by only changing the training process, especially the paradigms with explicit association module.
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spellingShingle TQD-Track: Temporal Query Denoising for 3D Multi-Object Tracking
Ding, Shuxiao
Yang, Yutong
Wiederer, Julian
Braun, Markus
Li, Peizheng
Gall, Juergen
Yang, Bin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Query denoising has become a standard training strategy for DETR-based detectors by addressing the slow convergence issue. Besides that, query denoising can be used to increase the diversity of training samples for modeling complex scenarios which is critical for Multi-Object Tracking (MOT), showing its potential in MOT application. Existing approaches integrate query denoising within the tracking-by-attention paradigm. However, as the denoising process only happens within the single frame, it cannot benefit the tracker to learn temporal-related information. In addition, the attention mask in query denoising prevents information exchange between denoising and object queries, limiting its potential in improving association using self-attention. To address these issues, we propose TQD-Track, which introduces Temporal Query Denoising (TQD) tailored for MOT, enabling denoising queries to carry temporal information and instance-specific feature representation. We introduce diverse noise types onto denoising queries that simulate real-world challenges in MOT. We analyze our proposed TQD for different tracking paradigms, and find out the paradigm with explicit learned data association module, e.g. tracking-by-detection or alternating detection and association, benefit from TQD by a larger margin. For these paradigms, we further design an association mask in the association module to ensure the consistent interaction between track and detection queries as during inference. Extensive experiments on the nuScenes dataset demonstrate that our approach consistently enhances different tracking methods by only changing the training process, especially the paradigms with explicit association module.
title TQD-Track: Temporal Query Denoising for 3D Multi-Object Tracking
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03258