SMOT: Single-Shot Multi Object Tracking

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We present single-shot multi-object tracker (SMOT), a new tracking framework that converts any single-shot detector (SSD) model into an online multiple object tracker, which emphasizes simultaneously detecting and tracking of the object paths.

• Contrary to the existing tracking by detection approaches which suffer from errors made by the object detectors, SMOT adopts the recently proposed scheme of tracking by re-detection.
• We combine this scheme with SSD detectors by proposing a novel tracking anchor assignment module.
• With this design SMOT is able to generate tracklets with a constant per-frame runtime.