Beyond Leaderboard Scores: A Deployment-Focused Protocol for Interpretable Tracking Evaluation in Pedestrian-Centric Environments

arXiv:2610.01682 · cs.RO, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-10-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-10-01

Updated: 2026-10-01

Comments: 8 pages, 7 figures; supplementary video provided as ancillary material. Submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Code: https://github.com/SCAI-Lab/tracker_eval

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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• Multimodal Dataset — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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