Exploring structure for long-term tracking of multiple objects in sports videos
Résumé
In this paper we propose a novel approach for exploring
structural relations to track multiple objects that may undergo long-term
occlusion and abrupt motion. We use a model-free approach that relies
only on annotations given in the first frame of the video to track all
the objects online, i.e. without knowledge from future frames. We
initialize a probabilistic Attributed Relational Graph (ARG) from the
first frame, which is incrementally updated along the video. Instead of
using structural information only to evaluate the scene, the proposed
approach considers it to generate new tracking hypotheses. In this way,
our method is capable of generating relevant object candidates that are
used to improve or recover the track of lost objects. The proposed method
is evaluated on several videos of table tennis matches and on the ACASVA
dataset. The results show that our approach is very robust, flexible and
able to outperform other state-of-the-art methods in sports videos that
present structural patterns.