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Is This Tracker On? A Benchmark Protocol for Dynamic Tracking

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-10-23 v1

Abstract

We introduce ITTO, a challenging new benchmark suite for evaluating and diagnosing the capabilities and limitations of point tracking methods. Our videos are sourced from existing datasets and egocentric real-world recordings, with high-quality human annotations collected through a multi-stage pipeline. ITTO captures the motion complexity, occlusion patterns, and object diversity characteristic of real-world scenes -- factors that are largely absent in current benchmarks. We conduct a rigorous analysis of state-of-the-art tracking methods on ITTO, breaking down performance along key axes of motion complexity. Our findings reveal that existing trackers struggle with these challenges, particularly in re-identifying points after occlusion, highlighting critical failure modes. These results point to the need for new modeling approaches tailored to real-world dynamics. We envision ITTO as a foundation testbed for advancing point tracking and guiding the development of more robust tracking algorithms.

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@article{arxiv.2510.19819,
  title  = {Is This Tracker On? A Benchmark Protocol for Dynamic Tracking},
  author = {Ilona Demler and Saumya Chauhan and Georgia Gkioxari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.19819},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Project page: https://glab-caltech.github.io/ITTO/

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