TAP-Vid: A Benchmark for Tracking Any Point in a Video

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03726v2
• Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 11:51:40 GMT
• Title: TAP-Vid: A Benchmark for Tracking Any Point in a Video
• Authors: Carl Doersch, Ankush Gupta, Larisa Markeeva, Adri\`a Recasens, Lucas Smaira, Yusuf Aytar, Jo\~ao Carreira, Andrew Zisserman, Yi Yang
• Abstract summary: We formalize the problem of tracking arbitrary physical points on surfaces over longer video clips, naming it tracking any point (TAP) We introduce a companion benchmark, TAP-Vid, which is composed of both real-world videos with accurate human annotations of point tracks, and synthetic videos with perfect ground-truth point tracks. We propose a simple end-to-end point tracking model TAP-Net, showing that it outperforms all prior methods on our benchmark when trained on synthetic data.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Generic motion understanding from video involves not only tracking objects, but also perceiving how their surfaces deform and move. This information is useful to make inferences about 3D shape, physical properties and object interactions. While the problem of tracking arbitrary physical points on surfaces over longer video clips has received some attention, no dataset or benchmark for evaluation existed, until now. In this paper, we first formalize the problem, naming it tracking any point (TAP). We introduce a companion benchmark, TAP-Vid, which is composed of both real-world videos with accurate human annotations of point tracks, and synthetic videos with perfect ground-truth point tracks. Central to the construction of our benchmark is a novel semi-automatic crowdsourced pipeline which uses optical flow estimates to compensate for easier, short-term motion like camera shake, allowing annotators to focus on harder sections of video. We validate our pipeline on synthetic data and propose a simple end-to-end point tracking model TAP-Net, showing that it outperforms all prior methods on our benchmark when trained on synthetic data.

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