# One Graph to Track Them All: Dynamic GNNs for Single- and Multi-View Tracking

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08494 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.08494/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 40 of its 69 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 11 Jul 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 40)

- [Semi-Supervised Classification with Graph Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.02907/) (2016)
- [Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1506.01497/) (2015)
- [Layer Normalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1607.06450/) (2016)
- [Neural Message Passing for Quantum Chemistry](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.01212/) (2017)
- [Fast R-CNN](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1504.08083/) (2015)
- [Inception-v4, Inception-ResNet and the Impact of Residual Connections on Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1602.07261/) (2016)
- [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)
- [Simple Online and Realtime Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1602.00763/) (2016)
- [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)
- [MOT16: A Benchmark for Multi-Object Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1603.00831/) (2016)
- [TrackFormer: Multi-Object Tracking with Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.02702/) (2021)
- [Tracking Objects as Points](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.01177/) (2020)
- [Tracking without bells and whistles](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.05625/) (2019)
- [MOTR: End-to-End Multiple-Object Tracking with Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.03247/) (2021)
- [TransTrack: Multiple Object Tracking with Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.15460/) (2020)
- [Learning a Neural Solver for Multiple Object Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.07515/) (2019)
- [MOTChallenge: A Benchmark for Single-Camera Multiple Target Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.07548/) (2020)
- [Deep Learning in Video Multi-Object Tracking: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.12740/) (2019)
- [Features for Multi-Target Multi-Camera Tracking and Re-Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.10859/) (2018)
- [Tracking The Untrackable: Learning To Track Multiple Cues with Long-Term Dependencies](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1701.01909/) (2017)
- [Multiview Detection with Feature Perspective Transformation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.07247/) (2020)
- [Unifying Short and Long-Term Tracking with Graph Hierarchies](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.03038/) (2022)
- [Online Multi-Target Tracking Using Recurrent Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1604.03635/) (2016)
- [DiffMOT: A Real-time Diffusion-based Multiple Object Tracker with Non-linear Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.02075/) (2024)
- [Learnable Graph Matching: Incorporating Graph Partitioning with Deep Feature Learning for Multiple Object Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.16178/) (2021)
- [Deep Occlusion Reasoning for Multi-Camera Multi-Target Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.05775/) (2017)
- [LMGP: Lifted Multicut Meets Geometry Projections for Multi-Camera Multi-Object Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.11892/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [ModTrack: Sensor-Agnostic Multi-View Tracking via Identity-Informed PHD Filtering with Covariance Propagation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.15812/) (2026)
- [Fully Distributed Multi-View 3D Tracking in Real-Time](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.13127/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This work presents a unified, fully differentiable model for multi-people tracking that learns to associate detections into trajectories without relying on pre-computed tracklets. The model builds a dynamic spatiotemporal graph that aggregates spatial, contextual, and temporal information, enabling seamless information propagation across entire sequences. To improve occlusion handling, the graph can also encode scene-specific information. We also introduce a new large-scale dataset with 25 partially overlapping views, detailed scene reconstructions, and extensive occlusions. Experiments show the model achieves state-of-the-art performance on public benchmarks and the new dataset, with flexibility across diverse conditions. Both the dataset and approach will be publicly released to advance research in multi-people tracking.
