Drone-Person Tracking in Uniform Appearance Crowd (D-PTUAC)

Drone-person tracking in uniform appearance crowds poses unique challenges due to the difficulty in distinguishing individuals with similar attire and multi-scale variations. To address this issue and facilitate the development of effective tracking algorithms, we present a novel dataset named D-PTUAC (Drone-Person Tracking in Uniform Appearance Crowd). The dataset comprises 138 sequences comprising over 121K frames, each manually annotated with bounding boxes and attributes. During dataset creation, we carefully consider 17 challenging attributes encompassing a wide range of viewpoints and scene complexities. These attributes are annotated to facilitate the analysis of performance based on specific attributes. Extensive experiments are conducted using 44 state-of-the-art (SOTA) trackers, and the performance gap demonstrate the need for a dedicated end-to-end aerial visual object tracker that accounts the inherent properties of aerial environment.