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No Train Yet Gain: Towards Generic Multi-Object Tracking in Sports and Beyond

arXiv 2506.01373 ↗First posted 2 Jun 2025cs.CVcited by 6

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Abstract (arXiv)

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is essential for sports analytics, enabling performance evaluation and tactical insights. However, tracking in sports is challenging due to fast movements, occlusions, and camera shifts. Traditional tracking-by-detection methods require extensive tuning, while segmentation-based approaches struggle with track processing. We propose McByte, a tracking-by-detection framework that integrates temporally propagated segmentation mask as an association cue to improve robustness without per-video tuning. Unlike many existing methods, McByte does not require training, relying solely on pre-trained models and object detectors commonly used in the community. Evaluated on SportsMOT, DanceTrack, SoccerNet-tracking 2022 and MOT17, McByte demonstrates strong performance across sports and general pedestrian tracking. Our results highlight the benefits of mask propagation for a more adaptable and generalizable MOT approach. Code will be made available at https://github.com/tstanczyk95/McByte.

Key facts. Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 37 of its 46 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 2 Jun 2025.

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  1. 2016MOT16: A Benchmark for Multi-Object Trackingcited by 532
  2. 2020FairMOT: On the Fairness of Detection and Re-Identification in Multiple Object Trackingcited by 490
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  4. 2022XMem: Long-Term Video Object Segmentation with an Atkinson-Shiffrin Memory Modelcited by 439
  5. 2021MOTR: End-to-End Multiple-Object Tracking with Transformercited by 381
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  15. 2022SoccerNet-Tracking: Multiple Object Tracking Dataset and Benchmark in Soccer Videoscited by 80
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  17. 2022Hard to Track Objects with Irregular Motions and Similar Appearances? Make It Easier by Buffering the Matching Spacecited by 66
  18. 2022Unifying Short and Long-Term Tracking with Graph Hierarchiescited by 62
  19. 2024Multiple Object Tracking as ID Predictioncited by 60
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Citing papers per year: 2025: 2; 2026: 4.

6 papers.

  1. 2025Look Around and Pay Attention: Multi-camera Point Tracking Reimagined with Transformerscited by 4
  2. 2025Multi Camera Connected Vision System with Multi View Analytics: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 1
  3. 2026SAMIDARE: Advanced Tracking-by-Segmentation for Dense Scenarioscited by 1
  4. 2026WaspMOT: A Benchmark for Long-Term Multi-Object Tracking of Trichogramma Waspscited by 0
  5. 2026Training-Free Long-Term Multi-Object Tracking for Sports Video Analyticscited by 0
  6. 2026Revisiting Multi-Object Tracking Baselines: Hyperparameter Optimization with Multi-Fidelity Greedy Coordinate Searchcited by 0