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This PR adds support for appearance-based tracking by introducing ID models for both Bottom-Up and Top-Down architectures.
Bottom-Up ID Model:
This model extends the standard Bottom-Up approach by replacing PAFs with multi-class segmentation maps ("classmaps"). Instead of explicitly grouping keypoints, the model predicts the probability that each keypoint belongs to a specific animal ID. Identity assignment is performed via optimal matching of class probabilities, making explicit grouping unnecessary.
Top-Down ID Model:
In this model, we extend the standard centered-instance pipeline by adding a classification head that predicts animal identity for each centroid-cropped image. Identity classification is computed from the features of the deepest layer of the encoder (the model to learn appearance-based features). The resulting class probabilities are then used to assign instance identities via optimal matching.