News: We release the code for training and testing DeepMOT-Tracktor and the code for training DHN. Please visit: https://gitlab.inria.fr/yixu/deepmot

How To Train Your Deep Multi-Object Tracker
Yihong Xu, Aljosa Osep, Yutong Ban, Radu Horaud,Laura Leal-Taixé, Xavier Alameda-Pineda
[Paper]

This code has been tested on Ubuntu 16.04, Python 3.6, Pytorch=0.4.1, CUDA 9.2, GTX 1080Ti, Titan X, and RTX Titan GPUs.

Warning: the results can be slightly different due to Pytorch version and CUDA version.

• Clone the repository

git clone [email protected]:yixu/deepmot.git && cd deepmot

Option 1:

• Follow the installation instructions in Tracktor.
  

Option 2 (recommended):

we provide a Singularity image with all packages pre-installed (similar to Docker) for training and testing.

• Open a terminal
• Install Singularity package:

sudo apt-get install -y singularity-container

• Download the Singularity image:
  tracker.sif (google drive) or
  tracker.sif (tencent cloud)
  
• Open a new terminal
• Launch a Singularity image

singularity shell --nv --bind yourLocalPath:yourPathInsideImage tracker.sif

- -bind: to link a singularity path with a local path. By doing this, you can find data from local PC inside Singularity image;
- -nv: use the local Nvidia driver.

• Setup your environment

• Go to the test_tracktor folder

• Download MOT data Dataset can be downloaded here: MOT17Det, MOT16Labels, MOT16-det-dpm-raw and MOT17Labels . 2. Unzip all the data by executing:

  unzip -d MOT17Det MOT17Det.zip
  unzip -d MOT16Labels MOT16Labels.zip
  unzip -d 2DMOT2015 2DMOT2015.zip
  unzip -d MOT16-det-dpm-raw MOT16-det-dpm-raw.zip
  unzip -d MOT17Labels MOT17Labels.zip
  

• Enter the data path to data_pth in the test_tracktor/experiments/cfgs/tracktor_pub_reid.yaml and test_tracktor/experiments/cfgs/tracktor_private.yaml
  

• Download pretrained models all the pretrained models can be downloaded here:
  deepMOT-Tracktor.pth (google drive) or
  deepMOT-Tracktor.pth (tencent cloud)

• Enter the model path to parameter obj_detect_weights in the test_tracktor/experiments/cfgs/tracktor_pub_reid.yaml and test_tracktor/experiments/cfgs/tracktor_private.yaml
  

• Set the dataset name in the test_tracktor/experiments/cfgs/tracktor_pub_reid.yaml and test_tracktor/experiments/cfgs/tracktor_private.yaml:
  For MOT17 (by default):

dataset: mot17_train_17

For MOT16 (images as the same as MOT17):

dataset: mot17_all_DPM_RAW16

• run tracking code

python test_tracktor/experiments/scripts/tst_tracktor_private.pytst_tracktor_pub_reid.py (public detections) or test_tracktor/experiments/scripts/tst_tracktor_private.py (private detections)

The results are saved by default under test_tracktor/output/log/, you can modify it by changing output_dir in the test_tracktor/experiments/cfgs/tracktor_pub_reid.yaml and test_tracktor/experiments/cfgs/tracktor_private.yaml.

• Visualization:
  You can set write_images: True in the test_tracktor/experiments/cfgs/tracktor_pub_reid.yaml and test_tracktor/experiments/cfgs/tracktor_private.yaml to plot and save images. By default, they will be saved inside test_tracktor/output/log/ if write_images: True.

• Setup your environment

• Go to the train_tracktor folder

• Download MOT Dataset can be downloaded here: MOT17Det, MOT16Labels, MOT16-det-dpm-raw and MOT17Labels.

• Unzip all the data by executing:

  unzip -d MOT17Det MOT17Det.zip
  unzip -d MOT16Labels MOT16Labels.zip
  unzip -d 2DMOT2015 2DMOT2015.zip
  unzip -d MOT16-det-dpm-raw MOT16-det-dpm-raw.zip
  unzip -d MOT17Labels MOT17Labels.zip
  

• Enter the data path to data_pth in the train_tracktor/experiments/cfgs/tracktor_full.yaml

• Download the output folder containing the configurations and the model to be fine-tuned and DHN pre-trained model:
  output.zip (google drive) or
  output.zip (tencent cloud)

• unzip the "output" folder and put it to train_tracktor.

• run training code

python train_tracktor/experiments/scripts/train_tracktor_full.py

The trained models are saved by default under train_tracktor/output/log_full/ folder.
The tensorboard logs are saved by default under deepmot/logs/train_log/ folder and you can visualize your training process by:

tensorboard --logdir=YourGitFolder/train_tracktor/output/log_full/

Note:

• you should install tensorflow (see tensorflow installation) in order to visualize your training process.

pip install --upgrade tensorflow

• Download the traindata (distance and ground-truth matrices calculated from MOT datasets):
  DHN data (google drive) or
  DHN data (tencent cloud)

• unzip DHN_data and put the DHN_data folder to train_DHN/

• Run:

python train_DHN/train_DHN.py --is_cuda --bidirectional

for more parameter details please run:

python train_DHN/train_DHN.py -h

By default the trained models are saved into train_DHN/output/DHN/ and log files in train_DHN/log/

your can visualize the training via tensorboard:

tensorboard --logdir=YourGitFolder/train_DHN/log/

Note:

• you should install tensorflow (see tensorflow installation) in order to visualize your training process.

pip install --upgrade tensorflow

You can run test_tracktor/experiments/scripts/evaluate.py to evaluate your tracker's performance.

• fill the list predt_pth in the code with the folder where the results (.txt files) are saved.
• make sure the data path is correctly set.
• then run

python test_tracktor/experiments/scripts/evaluate.py

MOT17 public detections:

MOT16 public detections:

MOT16/17 private detections:

Note:

• the results can be slightly different depending on the running environment.

If you find this code useful, please star the project and consider citing:

@misc{xu2019train,
    title={How To Train Your Deep Multi-Object Tracker},
    author={Yihong Xu and Aljosa Osep and Yutong Ban and Radu Horaud and Laura Leal-Taixe and Xavier Alameda-Pineda},
    year={2019},
    eprint={1906.06618},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

Some code is modified and network pre-trained weights are obtained from the following repositories:

Single Object Tracker: SiamRPN, Tracktor, Faster-RCNN pytorch implementation.

@inproceedings{Zhu_2018_ECCV,
  title={Distractor-aware Siamese Networks for Visual Object Tracking},
  author={Zhu, Zheng and Wang, Qiang and Bo, Li and Wu, Wei and Yan, Junjie and Hu, Weiming},
  booktitle={European Conference on Computer Vision},
  year={2018}
}

@InProceedings{Li_2018_CVPR,
  title = {High Performance Visual Tracking With Siamese Region Proposal Network},
  author = {Li, Bo and Yan, Junjie and Wu, Wei and Zhu, Zheng and Hu, Xiaolin},
  booktitle = {The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year = {2018}
}

@InProceedings{tracktor_2019_ICCV,
  author = {Bergmann, Philipp and Meinhardt, Tim and Leal{-}Taix{\'{e}}}, Laura},
  title = {Tracking Without Bells and Whistles},
  booktitle = {The IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
  month = {October},
  year = {2019}}

@inproceedings{10.5555/2969239.2969250,
author = {Ren, Shaoqing and He, Kaiming and Girshick, Ross and Sun, Jian},
title = {Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks},
year = {2015},
publisher = {MIT Press},
address = {Cambridge, MA, USA},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems - Volume 1},
pages = {91–99},
numpages = {9},
location = {Montreal, Canada},
series = {NIPS’15}
}

MOT Metrics in Python: py-motmetrics
Appearance Features Extractor: DAN

@article{sun2018deep,
  title={Deep Affinity Network for Multiple Object Tracking},
  author={Sun, ShiJie and Akhtar, Naveed and Song, HuanSheng and Mian, Ajmal and Shah, Mubarak},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.11780},
  year={2018}
}

Training and testing Data from:
MOT Challenge: motchallenge

@article{MOT16,
    title = {{MOT}16: {A} Benchmark for Multi-Object Tracking},
    shorttitle = {MOT16},
    url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00831},
    journal = {arXiv:1603.00831 [cs]},
    author = {Milan, A. and Leal-Taix\'{e}, L. and Reid, I. and Roth, S. and Schindler, K.},
    month = mar,
    year = {2016},
    note = {arXiv: 1603.00831},
    keywords = {Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition}
}