Fast MOT

Description

Fast MOT is a multiple object tracker that implements:

• YOLO detector
• SSD detector
• Deep SORT + OSNet ReID
• KLT optical flow tracking
• Camera motion compensation

Deep learning models are usually the bottleneck in Deep SORT, which makes Deep SORT unscalable for real-time applications. This repo significantly speeds up the entire system to run in real-time even on Jetson. It also provides enough flexibility to customize the speed-accuracy tradeoff without a lightweight model.

To achieve faster processing, the tracker only runs detector and feature extractor every N frames. Optical flow is then used to fill in the gaps. I swapped the feature extractor in Deep SORT for a better ReID model, OSNet. I also added a feature to re-identify targets that moved out of frame so that the tracker can keep the same IDs. I trained YOLOv4 on CrowdHuman while SSD's are pretrained COCO models from TensorFlow.

Both detector and feature extractor use the TensorRT backend and perform asynchronous inference. In addition, most algorithms, including Kalman filter, optical flow, and data association, are optimized using Numba.

Performance

Sequence	Density	MOTA (SSD)	MOTA (YOLOv4)	MOTA (public)	FPS
MOT17-13	5 - 30	19.8%	45.6%	41.3%	38
MOT17-04	30 - 50	43.8%	61.0%	75.1%	22
MOT17-03	50 - 80	-	-	-	15

Performance is evaluated with the MOT17 dataset on Jetson Xavier NX using py-motmetrics. When using public detections from MOT17, the MOTA scores are close to state-of-the-art trackers. Tracking speed can reach up to 38 FPS depending on the number of objects. On a desktop CPU/GPU, FPS should be even higher.

This means even though the tracker runs much faster, it is still highly accurate. More lightweight detector/feature extractor can potentially be used to obtain more speedup. Note that plain Deep SORT + YOLO struggles to run in real-time on most edge devices and desktop machines.

Requirements

• CUDA >= 10
• cuDNN >= 7
• TensorRT >= 7
• OpenCV >= 3.3
• PyCuda
• Numpy >= 1.15
• Scipy >= 1.5
• TensorFlow <= 1.15.2 (for SSD support)
• Numba >= 0.48
• cython-bbox

Install for Jetson (TX2/Xavier NX/Xavier)

Make sure to have JetPack 4.4 installed and run the script

$ scripts/install_jetson.sh

Install for Ubuntu 18.04

Make sure to have CUDA, cuDNN, and TensorRT (including Python API) installed. You can optionally use my script to install from scratch

$ scripts/install_tensorrt.sh

Install UFF and Graph Surgeon for SSD support: GeekAlexis#15 (comment)

Build OpenCV from source with GStreamer (optional). GStreamer is recommended for performance. Modify ARCH_BIN here to match your GPU compute capability

$ scripts/install_opencv.sh

Install Python dependencies

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Download models

This includes both pretrained OSNet, SSD, and my custom YOLOv4 ONNX model

$ scripts/download_models.sh

Build YOLOv4 TensorRT plugin

$ cd fastmot/plugins
$ make

Download VOC dataset for INT8 calibration

Only required if you want to use SSD

$ scripts/download_data.sh

Usage

• USB Camera:

  $ python3 app.py --input_uri /dev/video0 --mot
  

• CSI Camera:

  $ python3 app.py --input_uri csi://0 --mot
  

• RTSP IP Camera:

  $ python3 app.py --input_uri rtsp://<user>:<password>@<ip>:<port> --mot
  

• Video file:

  $ python3 app.py --input_uri video.mp4 --mot
  

• Use --gui to visualize and --output_uri to save output
• To disable the GStreamer backend, set WITH_GSTREAMER = False here
• Note that the first run will be slow due to Numba compilation
• More options can be configured in cfg/mot.json
  • Set camera_size and camera_fps to match your camera setting. List all settings for your camera:

    $ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --list-formats-ext
    

  • To change detector, modify detector_type. This can be either YOLO or SSD
  • To change classes, set class_ids under the correct detector. Default class is 1, which corresponds to person
  • To swap model, modify model under a detector. For SSD, you can choose from SSDInceptionV2, SSDMobileNetV1, or SSDMobileNetV2
  • Note that with SSD, the detector splits a frame into tiles and processes them in batches for the best accuracy. Change tiling_grid to [2, 2], [2, 1], or [1, 1] if a smaller batch size is preferred
  • If more accuracy is desired and processing power is not an issue, reduce detector_frame_skip. Similarly, increase detector_frame_skip to speed up tracking at the cost of accuracy. You may also want to change max_age such that max_age * detector_frame_skip is around 30-40
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Track custom classes

This repo supports multi-class tracking and thus can be easily extended to custom classes (e.g. vehicle). You need to train both YOLO and a ReID model on your object classes. Check Darknet for training YOLO and fast-reid for training ReID. After training, convert the model to ONNX format and place it under fastmot/models. To convert YOLO to ONNX, tensorrt_demos is a great reference.

Add custom YOLOv3/v4

1. Subclass YOLO like here: https://github.com/GeekAlexis/FastMOT/blob/4e946b85381ad807d5456f2ad57d1274d0e72f3d/fastmot/models/yolo.py#L94

   ENGINE_PATH: path to TensorRT engine (converted at runtime)
   MODEL_PATH: path to ONNX model
   NUM_CLASSES: total number of classes
   INPUT_SHAPE: input size in the format "(channel, height, width)"
   LAYER_FACTORS: scale factors with respect to the input size for each yolo layer
                  For YOLOv3, change to [32, 16, 8]
                  For YOLOv3/v4-tiny, change to [32, 16]
   SCALES: scale_x_y parameter for each yolo layer
           For YOLOv3, change to [1., 1., 1.]
           For YOLOv3-tiny, change to [1., 1.]
           For YOLOv4-tiny, change to [1.05, 1.05]
   ANCHORS: anchors grouped by each yolo layer
   

   Note that anchors may not follow the same order in the Darknet cfg file. You need to mask out the anchors for each yolo layer using the indices in mask in Darknet cfg. Unlike YOLOv4, the anchors are usually in reverse for YOLOv3 and tiny
2. Change class labels here to your object classes
3. Modify cfg/mot.json: under yolo_detector, set model to the added Python class and set class_ids you want to detect. You may want to play with conf_thresh based on the accuracy of your model

Add custom ReID

1. Subclass ReID like here: https://github.com/GeekAlexis/FastMOT/blob/aa707888e39d59540bb70799c7b97c58851662ee/fastmot/models/reid.py#L51

   ENGINE_PATH: path to TensorRT engine (converted at runtime)
   MODEL_PATH: path to ONNX model
   INPUT_SHAPE: input size in the format "(channel, height, width)"
   OUTPUT_LAYOUT: feature dimension output by the model (e.g. 512)
   METRIC: distance metric used to match features ('euclidean' or 'cosine')
   

2. Modify cfg/mot.json: under feature_extractor, set model to the added Python class. You may want to play with max_feat_cost and max_reid_cost - float values from 0 to 2, based on the accuracy of your model