TRACER: Efficient Object Re-Identification in Networked Cameras through Adaptive Query Processing

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Autores principales: Chunduri, Pramod, Lu, Yao, Arulraj, Joy
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author Chunduri, Pramod
Lu, Yao
Arulraj, Joy
author_facet Chunduri, Pramod
Lu, Yao
Arulraj, Joy
contents Efficiently re-identifying and tracking objects across a network of cameras is crucial for applications like traffic surveillance. Spatula is the state-of-the-art video database management system (VDBMS) for processing Re-ID queries. However, it suffers from two limitations. Its spatio-temporal filtering scheme has limited accuracy on large camera networks due to localized camera history. It is not suitable for critical video analytics applications that require high recall due to a lack of support for adaptive query processing. In this paper, we present Tracer, a novel VDBMS for efficiently processing Re-ID queries using an adaptive query processing framework. Tracer selects the optimal camera to process at each time step by training a recurrent network to model long-term historical correlations. To accelerate queries under a high recall constraint, Tracer incorporates a probabilistic adaptive search model that processes camera feeds in incremental search windows and dynamically updates the sampling probabilities using an exploration-exploitation strategy. To address the paucity of benchmarks for the Re-ID task due to privacy concerns, we present a novel synthetic benchmark for generating multi-camera Re-ID datasets based on real-world traffic distribution. Our evaluation shows that Tracer outperforms the state-of-the-art cross-camera analytics system by 3.9x on average across diverse datasets.
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spellingShingle TRACER: Efficient Object Re-Identification in Networked Cameras through Adaptive Query Processing
Chunduri, Pramod
Lu, Yao
Arulraj, Joy
Databases
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Efficiently re-identifying and tracking objects across a network of cameras is crucial for applications like traffic surveillance. Spatula is the state-of-the-art video database management system (VDBMS) for processing Re-ID queries. However, it suffers from two limitations. Its spatio-temporal filtering scheme has limited accuracy on large camera networks due to localized camera history. It is not suitable for critical video analytics applications that require high recall due to a lack of support for adaptive query processing. In this paper, we present Tracer, a novel VDBMS for efficiently processing Re-ID queries using an adaptive query processing framework. Tracer selects the optimal camera to process at each time step by training a recurrent network to model long-term historical correlations. To accelerate queries under a high recall constraint, Tracer incorporates a probabilistic adaptive search model that processes camera feeds in incremental search windows and dynamically updates the sampling probabilities using an exploration-exploitation strategy. To address the paucity of benchmarks for the Re-ID task due to privacy concerns, we present a novel synthetic benchmark for generating multi-camera Re-ID datasets based on real-world traffic distribution. Our evaluation shows that Tracer outperforms the state-of-the-art cross-camera analytics system by 3.9x on average across diverse datasets.
title TRACER: Efficient Object Re-Identification in Networked Cameras through Adaptive Query Processing
topic Databases
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09448