Point tracking can be regarded as a transfer and extension of keypoints representation and matching. In contrast to matching the salient points like corners or spots, which are easily detected and described by detector-based approaches, point tracking tasks are capable of handling arbitrary points on physical surfaces, including nonrigid or weakly-textured surfaces. Additionally, keypoint matching lacks a direct mechanism to handle occlusion in tracking tasks. Therefore, we propose to use a detector-free local feature-matching model based on the transformer structure to perform patch matching, incorporating occlusion prediction and introducing an uncertainty estimate for extended robustness. Besides, using a coarse-to-fine strategy, we generate coarse predictions at the patch level and refine them to obtain accurate coordinates at the sub-pixel level by motion-driven point association. After fine-tuning the model on the training set of the Perception Test benchmark, our model APM-MPAPT outperforms the competitors in the benchmark on the corresponding validation set, with promising performance improvement against the baseline.

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Attention-Based Patch Matching and Motion-Driven Point Association for Accurate Point Tracking

  • Han Zang,
  • Tianyang Xu,
  • Xue-Feng Zhu,
  • Xiaoning Song,
  • Xiao-Jun Wu,
  • Josef Kittler

摘要

Point tracking can be regarded as a transfer and extension of keypoints representation and matching. In contrast to matching the salient points like corners or spots, which are easily detected and described by detector-based approaches, point tracking tasks are capable of handling arbitrary points on physical surfaces, including nonrigid or weakly-textured surfaces. Additionally, keypoint matching lacks a direct mechanism to handle occlusion in tracking tasks. Therefore, we propose to use a detector-free local feature-matching model based on the transformer structure to perform patch matching, incorporating occlusion prediction and introducing an uncertainty estimate for extended robustness. Besides, using a coarse-to-fine strategy, we generate coarse predictions at the patch level and refine them to obtain accurate coordinates at the sub-pixel level by motion-driven point association. After fine-tuning the model on the training set of the Perception Test benchmark, our model APM-MPAPT outperforms the competitors in the benchmark on the corresponding validation set, with promising performance improvement against the baseline.