Computer Vision News - January 2023

13 Transparent Object Tracking confuse your tracker and cause it to fail by jumping to them. The team is setting out to address this challenge in their next paper. “ The data is just one part of the research, and the other part is the algorithm, ” Alan explains. “ Under an existing method, your algorithm will improve with this dataset, but now we’re looking at changing the algorithm to make tracking even better when multiple transparent objects are present in the scene . That’s the topic we’re looking at right now. ” Away from their day jobs, the team has a taste for some more adventurous pursuits. Alan’s hobbies include climbing, cycling, and woodworking. Žiga enjoys sports and reading. Matej is a climber, hiker, and scuba diver who likes traveling to exotic places. “ I’m at an age where I’m not making illusions, and I can’t avoid the computer! ” Matej laughs. “ But hopefully, getting back to normal life after the crisis we’ve all been through, we’ll be able to continue with these adventures. ” “ When you present a method, the method may change the direction of development of methodology in certain fields, but with a training dataset in this context, we enabled the development of the whole field of transparent object tracking regardless of the method. The methods will be based on deep learning, for sure, allowing the development of any method and research and exploration in that. It might be impactful, but we will see that only after several years. ” Žiga adds: “ Weshowedthat youcangeneratesynthetic training data, and if you use synthetic data, the boost is still possible, which is good because the cost is low, and it’s not time- consuming to gather. ” In opaque tracking datasets , there are objects you are supposed to track, and there may be other objects in the scene, but they will not typically be very similar to the tracked object. In transparent tracking , this is different. Where you have a number of transparent objects in a scene, you select one object, but there will be many distractors – other objects that can