[AAAI'2024] - ODTrack

The official implementation for the AAAI 2024 paper [ODTrack: Online Dense Temporal Token Learning for Visual Tracking].

[Models], [Raw Results], [Training logs]

Highlights

🌟 New Video-Level Tracking Framework

ODTrack is a simple, flexible and effective video-level tracking pipeline, which densely associates the contextual relationships of video frames in an online token propagation manner. ODTrack receives video frames of arbitrary length to capture the spatio-temporal trajectory relationships of an instance, and compresses the discrimination features (localization information) of a target into a token sequence to achieve frame-to-frame association.

This new solution brings the following benefits:

1. the purified token sequences can serve as prompts for the inference in the next video frame, whereby past information is leveraged to guide future inference

2. the complex online update strategies are effectively avoided by the iterative propagation of token sequences, and thus ODTrack can achieves more efficient model representation and computation.

🌟 Strong Performance

Tracker	GOT-10K (AO)	LaSOT (AUC)	TrackingNet (AUC)	LaSOT_ext (AUC)	VOT2020 (EAO)	TNL2K (AUC)	OTB(AUC)
ODTrack-L	78.2	74.0	86.1	53.9	0.605	61.7	72.4
ODTrack-B	77.0	73.1	85.1	52.4	0.581	60.9	72.3

Install the environment

conda create -n odtrack python=3.8
conda activate odtrack
bash install.sh

Data Preparation

Put the tracking datasets in ./data. It should look like:

${PROJECT_ROOT}
 -- data
     -- lasot
         |-- airplane
         |-- basketball
         |-- bear
         ...
     -- got10k
         |-- test
         |-- train
         |-- val
     -- coco
         |-- annotations
         |-- images
     -- trackingnet
         |-- TRAIN_0
         |-- TRAIN_1
         ...
         |-- TRAIN_11
         |-- TEST

Set project paths

Run the following command to set paths for this project

python tracking/create_default_local_file.py --workspace_dir . --data_dir ./data --save_dir ./output

After running this command, you can also modify paths by editing these two files

lib/train/admin/local.py  # paths about training
lib/test/evaluation/local.py  # paths about testing

Training

Download pre-trained MAE ViT-Base weights and put it under $PROJECT_ROOT$/pretrained_networks (different pretrained models can also be used, see MAE for more details).

python tracking/train.py \
--script odtrack --config baseline \
--save_dir ./output \
--mode multiple --nproc_per_node 4 \
--use_wandb 1

Replace --config with the desired model config under experiments/odtrack.

We use wandb to record detailed training logs, in case you don't want to use wandb, set --use_wandb 0.

Test and Evaluation

• LaSOT or other off-line evaluated benchmarks (modify --dataset correspondingly)

python tracking/test.py odtrack baseline --dataset lasot --runid 300 --threads 8 --num_gpus 2
python tracking/analysis_results.py # need to modify tracker configs and names

• GOT10K-test

python tracking/test.py odtrack baseline_got --dataset got10k_test  --runid 100 --threads 8 --num_gpus 2
python lib/test/utils/transform_got10k.py --tracker_name odtrack --cfg_name baseline_got_100

• TrackingNet

python tracking/test.py odtrack baseline --dataset trackingnet  --runid 300 --threads 8 --num_gpus 2
python lib/test/utils/transform_trackingnet.py --tracker_name odtrack --cfg_name baseline_300

• VOT2020

cd external/vot20/    <workspace_dir>
bash exp.sh

Test FLOPs, and Speed

Note: The speeds reported in our paper were tested on a single RTX2080Ti GPU.

python tracking/profile_model.py --script odtrack --config baseline

Acknowledgments

• Thanks for the STARK and PyTracking library, which helps us to quickly implement our ideas.

Citation

If our work is useful for your research, please consider citing:

@inproceedings{zheng2024odtrack,
  title={ODTrack: Online Dense Temporal Token Learning for Visual Tracking}, 
  author={Yaozong Zheng and Bineng Zhong and Qihua Liang and Zhiyi Mo and Shengping Zhang and Xianxian Li},
  booktitle={AAAI},
  year={2024}
}