Tracking Everything Everywhere All at Once

PyTorch Implementation for paper Tracking Everything Everywhere All at Once, ICCV 2023.

Qianqian Wang 1,2, Yen-Yu Chang 1, Ruojin Cai 1, Zhengqi Li 2, Bharath Hariharan 1, Aleksander Holynski 2,3, Noah Snavely 1,2
1Cornell University, 2Google Research, 3UC Berkeley

Installation

The code is tested with python=3.8 and torch=1.10.0+cu111 on an A100 GPU.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/qianqianwang68/omnimotion/
cd omnimotion/
conda create -n omnimotion python=3.8
conda activate omnimotion
pip install torch==1.10.0+cu111 torchvision==0.11.0+cu111 torchaudio==0.10.0 -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html
pip install matplotlib tensorboard scipy opencv-python tqdm tensorboardX configargparse ipdb kornia imageio[ffmpeg]

Training

  1. Please refer to the preprocessing instructions for preparing input data for training OmniMotion. We also provide some processed data that you can download, unzip and directly train on. (Note that depending on the network speed, it may be faster to run the processing script locally than downloading the processed data).

  2. With processed input data, run the following command to start training:

    python train.py --config configs/default.txt --data_dir {sequence_directory}
    

    You can view visualizations on tensorboard by running tensorboard --logdir logs/. By default, the script trains 100k iterations which takes 8~9h on an A100 GPU.

Visualization

The training pipeline generates visualizations (correspondences, pseudo-depth maps, etc) every certain number of steps (saved in args.out_dir/vis). You can also visualize grid points / trails after training by running:

python viz.py --config configs/default.txt --data_dir {sequence_directory}

Make sure expname and data_dir are correctly specified, so that the model and data can be loaded. By specifying expname, the latest checkpoints that match that expname will be loaded. Alternatively, you can specify ckpt_path to select a particular checkpoint.

To generate the motion trail visualization, foreground/background segmentation mask is required. For DAVIS videos one can just use the mask annotations provided by the dataset. For custom videos that don't come with foreground segmentation masks, you can use remove.bg to remove the background for the query frame, download the masked image and specify its path:

python viz.py --config configs/default.txt --data_dir {sequence_directory} --foreground_mask_path {mask_file_path}

Troubleshooting

  • The training code utilizes approximately 22GB of CUDA memory. If you encounter CUDA out of memory errors, you may consider reducing the number of sampled points num_pts and the chunk size chunk_size.
  • Due to the highly non-convex nature of the underlying optimization problem, we observe that the optimization process can be sensitive to initialization for certain difficult videos. If you notice significant inaccuracies in surface orderings (by examining the pseudo depth maps) persist after 40k steps, it is very likely that training won't recover from that. You may consider restarting the training with a different loader_seed to change the initialization. If surfaces are incorrectly put at the nearest depth planes (which are not supposed to be the closest), we found using mask_near to disable near samples in the beginning of the training could help in some cases.
  • Another common failure we noticed is that instead of creating a single object in the canonical space with correct motion, the method creates duplicated objects in the canonical space with short-ranged motion for each. This has to do with both that the input correspondences on the object being sparse and short-ranged, and the optimization being stuck at local minima. This issue may be alleviated with better and longer-range input correspondences such as from TAPIR and CoTracker. Alternatively, you may consider adjusting loader_seed or the learning rates.

Citation

@article{wang2023omnimotion,
    title   = {Tracking Everything Everywhere All at Once},
    author  = {Wang, Qianqian and Chang, Yen-Yu and Cai, Ruojin and Li, Zhengqi and Hariharan, Bharath and Holynski, Aleksander and Snavely, Noah},
    journal = {ICCV},
    year    = {2023}
}