Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 52, Issue 6, 250050(2025)

The cascade matching method for multi-object tracking of 3D LiDAR point clouds

Gang Chen1、*, Wenbiao Zhang2, Hongyan Wang2, En Li3, and Tao Sun2
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, Zhejiang 314001, China
  • 2School of Information Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, China
  • 3Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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    Figures & Tables(12)
    Framework of the tracking algorithm
    Schematic diagram of AC-IoU. (a) I3D-IoU>σ; (b) I3D-IoU<σ
    Flowchart of cascade matching
    Visualization comparison. (a) Original algorithm-scene1; (b) Proposed method-scene1; (c) Original algorithm-scene2; (d) Proposed method-scene2
    Visualization Comparison. (a) Original algorithm-scene3; (b) Proposed method-scene3
    Visualization of results. (a) Road intersection; (b) Scenarios with complex objects
    Visualization of results. (a) High-velocity scenes; (b) Vehicle-crowded scenes
    • Table 1. Tracking results of cars by different algorithms on the KITTI dataset

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      Table 1. Tracking results of cars by different algorithms on the KITTI dataset

      MethodsAMOTA/%AMOTA/%AMOTP/%MOTA/%MOTP/%IDSFPS
      mmMOT70.6133.0872.4574.0778.165533
      FANTrack82.9740.0375.0174.3075.2420225
      DeepFusionMOT91.8044.6291.301104
      GNN3DMOT93.6845.2784.70105
      StrongFusionMOT93.4946.3690.68067
      EAFFMOT93.8347.0777.1986.8876.4515130
      FNC293.0345.2261.7986.1864.11091
      AB3DMOT93.2845.4377.4186.2378.430126
      Ours93.2545.5278.4486.2279.290115
    • Table 2. Tracking results of pedestrians by different algorithms on the KITTI dataset

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      Table 2. Tracking results of pedestrians by different algorithms on the KITTI dataset

      MethodsAMOTA/%AMOTA/%AMOTP/%MOTA/%MOTP/%IDS
      StrongFusionMOT78.3832.3073.633
      EAFFMOT79.2833.7358.3271.1766.9781
      FNC261.6021.2335.6456.4550.3428
      AB3DMOT75.8531.0455.5370.9061.2735
      Ours81.9733.8060.1773.7264.472
    • Table 3. Tracking results of cyclists by different algorithms on the KITTI dataset

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      Table 3. Tracking results of cyclists by different algorithms on the KITTI dataset

      MethodsAMOTA/%AMOTA/%AMOTP/%MOTA/%MOTP/%IDS
      StrongFusionMOT93.3946.3690.682
      EAFFMOT93.8347.0777.1986.8876.4515
      FNC293.0345.2261.7986.1877.434
      AB3DMOT91.3644.3479.1884.8771.384
      Ours93.4247.5980.9784.4278.320
    • Table 4. Tracking results by different algorithms on the nuScenes dataset

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      Table 4. Tracking results by different algorithms on the nuScenes dataset

      MethodCarPedestrian
      MOTA/%MOTP/%IDSFRAGMOTA/%MOTP/%IDSFRAG
      StrongFusionMOT61.3030.3481353354.3031.61581165
      DeepFusionMOT57.6132.2998165348.2535.23591213
      AB3DMOT63.6031.0151536762.3924.15376236
      Ours66.7532.1535627664.8031.72295171
    • Table 5. Results of ablation experiments

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      Table 5. Results of ablation experiments

      AC-IoU级联匹配sAMOTA/%AMOTA/%AMOTP/%MOTA/%MOTP/%
      ××86.8340.2770.7080.6670.36
      ×86.0541.0270.5781.3374.68
      ×86.4041.9869.8981.6572.87
      89.5540.3073.1981.4574.03
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    Category: Article

    Received: Feb. 24, 2025

    Accepted: Apr. 30, 2025

    Published Online: Sep. 3, 2025

    The Author Email: Gang Chen (陈刚)

    DOI:10.12086/oee.2025.250050

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