WaspMOT: A Benchmark for Long-Term Multi-Object Tracking of Trichogramma Wasps

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08729v1
• Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:34:04 GMT
• Title: WaspMOT: A Benchmark for Long-Term Multi-Object Tracking of Trichogramma Wasps
• Abstract summary: We introduce WaspMOT, a benchmark for long-duration tracking of Trichogramma wasps.<n>The dataset contains 10 sequences of approximately 12,000 frames each (over 8 minutes at 25 FPS)<n>We evaluate five tracking-by-detection methods, including ByteTrack, BoT-SORT, C-BIoU, OC-SORT, and McByte.
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• Abstract: Multi-object tracking (MOT) has achieved strong performance on benchmarks dominated by short video sequences. However, such datasets do not adequately evaluate long-term identity preservation, where objects must be tracked consistently over extended durations. We introduce WaspMOT, a benchmark designed to address this gap through long-duration tracking of Trichogramma wasps in controlled ecological experiments. The dataset contains 10 sequences of approximately 12,000 frames each (over 8 minutes at 25 FPS), with dense MOTChallenge annotations and oracle detections to isolate association performance. Unlike existing benchmarks, WaspMOT forms a closed-set tracking scenario where all individuals remain present throughout the sequence, requiring consistent identity assignment across thousands of frames despite abrupt jumps, occlusions, and highly similar appearance. We establish a benchmark by evaluating five tracking-by-detection methods, including ByteTrack, BoT-SORT, C-BIoU, OC-SORT, and McByte, under a unified protocol. Results show that all methods suffer from significant trajectory fragmentation, highlighting the difficulty of long-term identity preservation even with perfect detections. A simple spatial tracklet stitching baseline consistently improves performance, indicating that substantial gains remain possible. WaspMOT provides a new benchmark for studying long-term association and reveals limitations of current tracking approaches that are not observable on conventional datasets. The benchmark will be made publicly available at the project repository: https://github.com/tstanczyk95/WaspMOT/ .

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