journal article·2025-06-20Open access

Occlusion-Robust Multi-Target Tracking and Segmentation Framework with Mask Enhancement

Hao Sheng, Defa Zhang, Dazhi Yang, Da Yang, Xi Liu, Wei Ke

Applied Sciences· Volume 15· Issue 13

Abstract

Multi-object tracking stands as one of the most prominent domains in Computer Vision and has significant research value and practical importance. However, due to the complexity of scenarios in the real world, especially in crowded environments with frequent target occlusion, existing MOT frameworks often struggle to achieve precise tracking results. To enhance the trajectory association accuracy of MOT frameworks in occluded scenarios, this paper proposes a mask-enhanced occlusion-robust multi-target tracking and segmentation framework. Our method first introduces a mask-conditional feature fusion network and an occlusion-aware mask propagation network. The former network integrates a mask-guided attention mechanism with a spatial–temporal feature aggregation sub-network to improve tracking robustness in crowded scenes, and the latter network prevents the contamination of online tracking templates from noise inputs by perceiving a target occlusion state. The framework merges the mask-based methods above into a mask-integrated multi-hypothesis tracking algorithm, achieves superior adaptability in occluded scenarios, and enhances the robustness of MOTS tasks. Our framework achieves the best performance on the MOTSA (84.4%), MT, and FN metrics, with a 6.1% reduction in FN compared to the state-of-the-art method. Our method achieves significant improvements in both accuracy and precision and is validated on public datasets.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods · Image Enhancement Techniques · Visual Attention and Saliency Detection

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Affiliations

State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

Data Science and Intelligent Computing Laboratory, Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University, Hangzhou 311115, China

Engineering Research Centre of Applied Technology on Machine Translation and Artificial Intelligence of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, Macao, China

State Key Laboratory for Intelligent Coal Mining and Strata Control, Beijing 100028, China

Research Institute of Mine Artificial Intelligence, Chinese Institute of Coal Science, Beijing 100013, China

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China · Open Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment · Research Start-up Funds of Hangzhou International Innovation Institute of Beihang University · Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China · Open Funding of the State Key Laboratory for Intelligent Coal Mining and Strata Control

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