How to effectively train an ensemble of Faster R-CNN object detectors to quantify uncertainty

This paper presents a new approach for training two-stage object detection ensemble models, more specifically, Faster R-CNN models to estimate uncertainty. We propose training one Region Proposal Network(RPN)~\cite{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1506.01497} and multiple Fast R-CNN prediction heads is all you need to build a robust deep ensemble network for estimating uncertainty in object detection. We present this approach and provide experiments to show that this approach is much faster than the naive method of fully training all $n$ models in an ensemble. We also estimate the uncertainty by measuring this ensemble model's Expected Calibration Error (ECE). We then further compare the performance of this model with that of Gaussian YOLOv3, a variant of YOLOv3 that models uncertainty using predicted bounding box coordinates. The source code is released at \url{https://github.com/Akola-Mbey-Denis/EfficientEnsemble}

Comparative study of multi-person tracking methods

This paper presents a study of two tracking algorithms (SORT~\cite{7533003} and Tracktor++~\cite{2019}) that were ranked first positions on the MOT Challenge leaderboard (The MOTChallenge web page: https://motchallenge.net ). The purpose of this study is to discover the techniques used and to provide useful insights about these algorithms in the tracking pipeline that could improve the performance of MOT tracking algorithms. To this end, we adopted the popular tracking-by-detection approach. We trained our own Pedestrian Detection model using the MOT17Det dataset (MOT17Det : https://motchallenge.net/data/MOT17Det/ ). We also used a re-identification model trained on MOT17 dataset (MOT17 : https://motchallenge.net/data/MOT17/ ) for Tracktor++ to reduce the false re-identification alarms. We then present experimental results which shows that Tracktor++ is a better multi-person tracking algorithm than SORT. We also performed ablation studies to discover the contribution of re-identification(RE-ID) network and motion to the results of Tracktor++. We finally conclude by providing some recommendations for future research.