RoadTrack: Tracking Road Agents In Dense and Heterogeneous Environments

We present an algorithm to track different traffic agents in dense videos. Our approach is designed for heterogeneous traffic scenarios that consist of different agents including vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, two-wheelers, etc., sharing the road. We present a novel heterogeneous traffic motion and interaction model (HTMI) to predict the motion of agents by modeling collision avoidance and interactions between the agents. We implement HTMI within the tracking-by-detection paradigm and use background subtracted representations of traffic agents to extract binary tensors for accurate tracking. We highlight the performance on a dense traffic videos and observe an accuracy of 75.8%. We observe upto approximately 4X speedup over prior tracking algorithms on standard traffic datasets.

Heterogeneous tracking in very dense traffic
Strengths: Tracking in challenging conditions
Strengths: Tracking humans inside vehicles

Paper:

RoadTrack: Tracking Road Agents In Dense and Heterogeneous Environments.