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Sparsely-Supervised Object Tracking.

Jilai Zheng, Wenxi Li, Chao Ma

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing : a Publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society

|May 29, 2024

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Training powerful visual object trackers is now possible with minimal manual labels. A novel SParsely-supervised Object Tracking (SPOT) framework uses few annotated boxes to train trackers effectively, reducing annotation burden.

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Area of Science:

Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Deep Learning

Background:

Deep visual object trackers achieve high performance but require extensive manual annotation.
The need for millions of sequential labels poses a significant challenge for supervised training.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a method for training powerful visual object trackers using limited manual annotations.
To challenge the necessity of frame-by-frame labeling in video object tracking.

Main Methods:

Introduction of the SParsely-supervised Object Tracking (SPOT) framework.
Utilizing sparsely annotated bounding boxes as anchors to discover unlabeled target frames.
Employing a teacher-student paradigm with transitive consistency for supervision.
Incorporating IoU filtering, asymmetric augmentation, and temporal calibration for training robustness.

Main Results:

Trackers trained with SPOT achieve performance comparable to fully-supervised methods using fewer than 5 labels per video.
SPOT efficiently utilizes large-scale video datasets under limited labeling budgets.
SPOT can learn from purely unlabeled videos when integrated with a target discovery module.

Conclusions:

SPOT offers a practical solution for label-efficient deep tracking.
The framework enables effective exploitation of large video datasets with minimal annotation effort.
SPOT encourages a shift in annotation principles for deep tracking research.