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Main Authors: Han, Xudong, Fang, Pengcheng, Tian, Yueying, Yu, Jianhui, Cai, Xiaohao, Roggen, Daniel, Birch, Philip
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08117
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author Han, Xudong
Fang, Pengcheng
Tian, Yueying
Yu, Jianhui
Cai, Xiaohao
Roggen, Daniel
Birch, Philip
author_facet Han, Xudong
Fang, Pengcheng
Tian, Yueying
Yu, Jianhui
Cai, Xiaohao
Roggen, Daniel
Birch, Philip
contents Multi-object tracking (MOT) in monocular videos is fundamentally challenged by occlusions and depth ambiguity, issues that conventional tracking-by-detection (TBD) methods struggle to resolve owing to a lack of geometric awareness. To address these limitations, we introduce GRASPTrack, a novel depth-aware MOT framework that integrates monocular depth estimation and instance segmentation into a standard TBD pipeline to generate high-fidelity 3D point clouds from 2D detections, thereby enabling explicit 3D geometric reasoning. These 3D point clouds are then voxelized to enable a precise and robust Voxel-Based 3D Intersection-over-Union (IoU) for spatial association. To further enhance tracking robustness, our approach incorporates Depth-aware Adaptive Noise Compensation, which dynamically adjusts the Kalman filter process noise based on occlusion severity for more reliable state estimation. Additionally, we propose a Depth-enhanced Observation-Centric Momentum, which extends the motion direction consistency from the image plane into 3D space to improve motion-based association cues, particularly for objects with complex trajectories. Extensive experiments on the MOT17, MOT20, and DanceTrack benchmarks demonstrate that our method achieves competitive performance, significantly improving tracking robustness in complex scenes with frequent occlusions and intricate motion patterns.
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spellingShingle GRASPTrack: Geometry-Reasoned Association via Segmentation and Projection for Multi-Object Tracking
Han, Xudong
Fang, Pengcheng
Tian, Yueying
Yu, Jianhui
Cai, Xiaohao
Roggen, Daniel
Birch, Philip
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Multi-object tracking (MOT) in monocular videos is fundamentally challenged by occlusions and depth ambiguity, issues that conventional tracking-by-detection (TBD) methods struggle to resolve owing to a lack of geometric awareness. To address these limitations, we introduce GRASPTrack, a novel depth-aware MOT framework that integrates monocular depth estimation and instance segmentation into a standard TBD pipeline to generate high-fidelity 3D point clouds from 2D detections, thereby enabling explicit 3D geometric reasoning. These 3D point clouds are then voxelized to enable a precise and robust Voxel-Based 3D Intersection-over-Union (IoU) for spatial association. To further enhance tracking robustness, our approach incorporates Depth-aware Adaptive Noise Compensation, which dynamically adjusts the Kalman filter process noise based on occlusion severity for more reliable state estimation. Additionally, we propose a Depth-enhanced Observation-Centric Momentum, which extends the motion direction consistency from the image plane into 3D space to improve motion-based association cues, particularly for objects with complex trajectories. Extensive experiments on the MOT17, MOT20, and DanceTrack benchmarks demonstrate that our method achieves competitive performance, significantly improving tracking robustness in complex scenes with frequent occlusions and intricate motion patterns.
title GRASPTrack: Geometry-Reasoned Association via Segmentation and Projection for Multi-Object Tracking
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08117