We handle a new problem of multi-view multi-human tracking in the bird's eye view (BEV). Different from previous works, we require neither the calibration among the multi-view cameras nor the actually captured BEV video. This makes the studied problem closer to real-world applications, however, more challenging. For this purpose, in this work, we propose a novel BEVTrack scheme. Specifically, given multi-view videos, we first use a virtual BEV transform module to obtain the BEV for each view. Then, we propose a unified BEV alignment module to fuse the respectively generated BEVs, in which we specifically design the self-supervised losses by considering both the spatial consistency and the temporal continuity. During the inference, we design the camera-subject collaborative registration and tracking strategy to make use of the mutual dependence between the multi-view cameras and the multiple targets, to achieve the desired BEV tracking. We also build a new benchmark for training and evaluation, the experimental results on which have verified the rationality of the problem and the effectiveness of our method.

Open-Vocabulary Multi-Object Tracking (OVMOT) aims to detect and track multi-category objects including both seen and unseen categories during training. Currently, a significant challenge in this domain is the lack of large-scale annotated video data for training. To address this challenge, this work aims to effectively train the OV tracker using only the existing limited and sparsely annotated video data. We propose a comprehensive training sample space expansion strategy that addresses the fundamental limitation of sparse annotations in OVMOT training. Specifically, for the association task, we develop a diffusion-based feature generation framework that synthesizes intermediate object features between sparsely annotated frames, effectively expanding the training sample space by approximately 3× and enabling robust association learning from temporally continuous features. For the detection task, we introduce a dynamic group contrastive learning approach that generates diverse sample groups through affinity, dispersion, and adversarial grouping strategies, tripling the effective training samples for classification while maintaining sample quality. Additionally, we propose an adaptive localization loss that expands positive sample coverage by lowering IoU thresholds while mitigating noise through confidence-based weighting. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on the OVMOT benchmark, surpassing existing methods by 3.8\% in TETA metric, without requiring additional data or annotations. The code will be available at https://github.com/zekunqian/DOVTrack.

Multi-view multi-human association and tracking (MvMHAT), is an emerging yet important problem for multi-person scene video surveillance, aiming to track a group of people over time in each view, as well as to identify the same person across different views at the same time, which is different from previous MOT and multi-camera MOT tasks only considering the over-time human tracking. This way, the videos for MvMHAT require more complex annotations while containing more information for self-learning. In this work, we tackle this problem with an end-to-end neural network in a self-supervised learning manner. Specifically, we propose to take advantage of the spatial-temporal self-consistency rationale by considering three properties of reflexivity, symmetry, and transitivity. Besides the reflexivity property that naturally holds, we design the self-supervised learning losses based on the properties of symmetry and transitivity, for both appearance feature learning and assignment matrix optimization, to associate multiple humans over time and across views. Furthermore, to promote the research on MvMHAT, we build two new large-scale benchmarks for the network training and testing of different algorithms. Extensive experiments on the proposed benchmarks verify the effectiveness of our method. We have released the benchmark and code to the public.

We tackle a new problem of multi-view camera and sub-ject registration in the bird’ s eye view (BEV) without pregiven camera calibration, which promotes the multi-view subject registration problem to a new calibration-free stage. This greatly alleviates the limitation in many practical applications. However, this is a very challenging problem since its only input is several RGB images from different first-person views (FPVs), without the BEV image and the calibration of the FPVs, while the output is a unified plane aggregated from all views with the positions and orientations of both the subjects and cameras in a BEV. For this purpose, we propose an end-to-end framework solving cam-era and subject registration together by taking advantage of their mutual dependence, whose main idea is as below: i) creating a subject view-transform module (VTM) to project each pedestrian from FPV to a virtual BEV, ii) deriving a multi-view geometry-based spatial alignment module (SAM) to estimate the relative camera pose in a unified BEV, iii) selecting and refining the subject and camera registration results within the unified BEV. We collect a new large-scale synthetic dataset with rich annotations for training and evaluation. Additionally, we also collect a real dataset for cross-domain evaluation. The experimental results show the remarkable effectiveness of our method. The code and proposed datasets are available at BEVSee.