# Towards Effective Multi-Moving-Camera Tracking: A New Dataset and Lightweight Link Model

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11035 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.11035/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 29 of its 56 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 18 Dec 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 29 of 29)

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- [Objects as Points](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.07850/) (2019)
- [Simple Online and Realtime Tracking with a Deep Association Metric](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.07402/) (2017)
- [ByteTrack: Multi-Object Tracking by Associating Every Detection Box](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.06864/) (2021)
- [Performance Measures and a Data Set for Multi-Target, Multi-Camera Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.01775/) (2016)
- [HOTA: A Higher Order Metric for Evaluating Multi-Object Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.07736/) (2020)
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- [TrackFormer: Multi-Object Tracking with Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.02702/) (2021)
- [FairMOT: On the Fairness of Detection and Re-Identification in Multiple Object Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.01888/) (2020)
- [MOTR: End-to-End Multiple-Object Tracking with Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.03247/) (2021)
- [A Survey of Autonomous Driving: Common Practices and Emerging Technologies](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.05113/) (2019)
- [TransTrack: Multiple Object Tracking with Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.15460/) (2020)
- [Towards Real-Time Multi-Object Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.12605/) (2019)
- [3D Human Pose Estimation with Spatial and Temporal Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.10455/) (2021)
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- [Features for Multi-Target Multi-Camera Tracking and Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.10859/) (2018)
- [Camera Style Adaptation for Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.10295/) (2017)
- [Exploit the Connectivity: Multi-Object Tracking with TrackletNet](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.07258/) (2018)
- [Track without Appearance: Learn Box and Tracklet Embedding with Local and Global Motion Patterns for Vehicle Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.06029/) (2021)
- [Multi-Target, Multi-Camera Tracking by Hierarchical Clustering: Recent Progress on DukeMTMC Project](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.09531/) (2017)
- [Split and Connect: A Universal Tracklet Booster for Multi-Object Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.02426/) (2021)
- [DIVOTrack: A Novel Dataset and Baseline Method for Cross-View Multi-Object Tracking in DIVerse Open Scenes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.07676/) (2023)
- [Online Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Person Re-identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.04383/) (2022)
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- [Stable Multi-Drone GNSS Tracking System for Marine Robots](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.18694/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Ensuring driving safety for autonomous vehicles has become increasingly crucial, highlighting the need for systematic tracking of on-road pedestrians. Most vehicles are equipped with visual sensors, however, the large-scale visual data has not been well studied yet. Multi-target multi-camera (MTMC) tracking systems are composed of two modules: single-camera tracking (SCT) and inter-camera tracking (ICT). To reliably coordinate between them, MTMC tracking has been a very complicated task, while tracking across multiple moving cameras makes it even more challenging. In this paper, we focus on multi-target multi-moving-camera (MTMMC) tracking, which is attracting increasing attention from the research community. Observing there are few datasets for MTMMC tracking, we collect a new dataset, called Multi-Moving-Camera Track (MMCT), which contains sequences under various driving scenarios. To address the common problems of identity switch easily faced by most existing SCT trackers, especially for moving cameras due to ego-motion between the camera and targets, a lightweight appearance-free global link model, called Linker, is proposed to mitigate the identity switch by associating two disjoint tracklets of the same target into a complete trajectory within the same camera. Incorporated with Linker, existing SCT trackers generally obtain a significant improvement. Moreover, to alleviate the impact of the image style variations caused by different cameras, a color transfer module is effectively incorporated to extract cross-camera consistent appearance features for pedestrian association across moving cameras for ICT, resulting in a much improved MTMMC tracking system, which can constitute a step further towards coordinated mining of multiple moving cameras. The project page is available at https://dhu-mmct.github.io/.