Multitarget Tracking Using Siamese Neural Networks

In this article, we detect and track visual objects by using Siamese network or twin neural network. The Siamese network is constructed to classify moving objects based on the associations of object detection network and object tracking network, which are thought of as the two branches of the twin neural network. The proposed tracking method was designed for single-target tracking, which implements multitarget tracking by using deep neural networks and object detection. The contributions of this article are stated as follows. First, we implement the proposed method for visual object tracking based on multiclass classification using deep neural networks. Then, we attain multitarget tracking by combining the object detection network and the single-target tracking network. Next, we uplift the tracking performance by fusing the outcomes of the object detection network and object tracking network. Finally, we speculate on the object occlusion problem based on IoU and similarity score, which effectively diminish the influence of this issue in multitarget tracking.