Object Initialization in Multiple Object Tracking:A Review

Abstract

Object initialization method determines how to treat the multi-object tracking problem,being directly related to the subsequent tracking result.Different object initialization methods confirm different multi-object tracking frameworks and each framework provides a way to solve the problem,which makes the object initialization of multi-object tracking a huge research prospect.Currently there are few literature on object initialization methods of multi-target tracking,or lacks a systematic overview of object initialization.Therefore,we analyze the object initialization methods on four aspects:multi-hypothesis tracking,network flow,deep learning and topic discovery.We systematically expound the task conversion and object mapping problems under diffe-rent multi-object tracking frameworks,and summarize the object initialization methods for the multi-object tracking.

Keywords

• multiple target tracking|object initialization|multiple hypothesis tracking|network flow|deep learning|topic discovery