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Detection & tracking

Mission Studio separates detections on sampled frames from the track histories used by area rules, subject following, and retained evidence.

The hosted worker runs YOLO11 and a motion-and-overlap tracker on uploaded clips. Localized re-detection and target-lock recovery belong to the separate runtime design. The Challenge displays prepared detections and does not run either pipeline when opened.

Hosted detection#

The public worker samples the normalized source at a configured cadence and runs YOLO11 for the selected subject family: people, vehicles, people and vehicles, bicycles, boats, or animals. Each retained detection keeps its source frame, timestamp, label, confidence, and normalized box.

Hosted identity linking#

Detections are associated in time using predicted center motion, spatial distance, and box overlap. A history needs at least three observations before Mission Studio treats it as a stable track for rules and result rendering. The retained manifest keeps every observation with the stable track ID used by later stages.

Short gaps#

The tracker keeps recent motion state through a short sampling gap and uses that prediction when the subject appears again. It does not claim biometric identity or re-identification across long gaps. If the association cannot be supported, the later observation can receive a new track ID.

Broader runtime design#

The local Vision runtime design adds localized re-detection around active zones and selected targets. It can upscale a crop, run a second detection pass, and combine that evidence with a target template and motion model. Those target-lock behaviors are not part of the hosted Mission Studio worker.

Separate Challenge logic#

The Challenge replays checked-in detections, tracks, zone geometry, and scored entries. Its overlap and track-switch corrections belong to that prepared record and are not the hosted Mission Studio implementation.

Detection quality, sampling cadence, overlap, occlusion, and camera motion can all change the resulting tracks. Inspect the annotated video and exact source frame before confirming an event.