Ship Online Multi-object Tracking in Lock Approach Channel
Received:December 12, 2023  Revised:February 01, 2024
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DOI:10.7643/issn.1672-9242.2024.03.010
KeyWord:online multi-object tracking  ship lock  improved FairMOT  context information  Contextual Transformer  context attention
           
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QIU Yaozong The 58th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group, Jiangsu Wuxi , China
LI Lin The 58th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group, Jiangsu Wuxi , China
GUO Haojie The 58th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group, Jiangsu Wuxi , China
YU Qingze College of Shipbuilding Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin , China
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      The work aims to propose a method of multi-object tracking to enhance contextual connection and attention to meet the requirements of ship online tracking in lock approach channel, and to ameliorate the problem of discontinuous trajectories and identity changes caused by complex backgrounds, occlusion, and other factors. The multi-object tracking model named of FairMOT was improved by continuous frame images captured from the online monitoring system. Firstly, a block based on Bottleneck of FairMOT and Contextual Transformer (BoCoT), was constructed in the backbone to exploit contextual information and strengthen the representative capability. Secondly, Global Context Attention (GCA) module was embedded after the iterative aggregation layer to assist in discriminating the object locations. The experimental results showed that, Multiple Object Tracking Accuracy (MOTA) index after context modeling was increased by 2.1% compared with the original FairMOT method, and it obtained a 3.5% increase totally after continuing to embed GCA module. The improved model also achieved the best performance in multiple evaluation indexes. In conclusion, the improved FairMOT not only has stronger trajectory retention ability, but it also excels in identity maintenance.
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