SAM2 Real-Time Detection and Tracking

This repository adapts SAM2 to include real-time multi-object tracking. It allows users to specify and track a fixed number of objects in real time, integrating motion modeling from SAMURAI for improved tracking in complex scenarios.

About SAM2

SAM2 (Segment Anything Model 2) is designed for object segmentation and tracking but lacks built-in capabilities for performing this in real time.

About SAMURAI

SAMURAI enhances SAM2 by introducing motion modeling, leveraging temporal motion cues for better tracking accuracy without retraining or fine-tuning.

Note on SAMURAI Features

While this repository integrates SAMURAI's motion modeling, it does not support the motion-aware memory selection mechanism, as conditional operations applied to memory would simultaneously affect all tracked objects.

The core implementation of SAMURAI's motion modeling, originally found in sam2_base.py in SAMURAI's repository, has been relocated to sam2_object_tracker.py in this repository to maintain the original SAM2 codebase.

Key Features

• Real-Time Tracking: Modified SAM2 to track a fixed number of objects in real time.
• Motion-Aware Memory: SAMURAI leverages temporal motion cues for robust object tracking without retraining or fine-tuning.

The core implementation resides in sam2_object_tracker.py, where the number of objects to track must be specified during instantiation.

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Setup Instructions

1. Create Conda Environment

conda create -n sam2 python=3.10.15

2. Clone SAM2 Realtime Repo

git clone https://github.com/zdata-inc/sam2_realtime

2. Install SAM2

cd sam2_realtime
pip install -e .
pip install -e ".[notebooks]"

4. Download SAM2 Checkpoints

cd checkpoints
./download_ckpts.sh
cd ..

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Usage

Demo

Run the demo notebook to visualize real-time SAM2 object tracking in action:
notebooks/realtime_detect_and_track.ipynb

Acknowledgment

SAM2 Realtime extends SAM 2 by Meta FAIR, designed to enable real-time tracking. It integrates motion-aware segmentation techniques developed in SAMURAI by the Information Processing Lab at the University of Washington.

Citation

@article{ravi2024sam2,
  title={SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos},
  author={Ravi, Nikhila and Gabeur, Valentin and Hu, Yuan-Ting and Hu, Ronghang and Ryali, Chaitanya and Ma, 
  Tengyu and Khedr, Haitham and R{\"a}dle, Roman and Rolland, Chloe and Gustafson, Laura and Mintun, Eric and Pan, 
  Junting and Alwala, Kalyan Vasudev and Carion, Nicolas and Wu, Chao-Yuan and Girshick, Ross and Doll{\'a}r, 
  Piotr and Feichtenhofer, Christoph},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.00714},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00714},
  year={2024}
}

@misc{yang2024samurai,
      title={SAMURAI: Adapting Segment Anything Model for Zero-Shot Visual Tracking with Motion-Aware Memory}, 
      author={Cheng-Yen Yang and Hsiang-Wei Huang and Wenhao Chai and Zhongyu Jiang and Jenq-Neng Hwang},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2411.11922},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11922}, 
}

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