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Tracking cells and detecting mitotic events in time-lapse microscopy image sequences is a crucial task in biomedical research. However, it remains highly challenging due to dividing objects, low signal-tonoise ratios, indistinct boundaries,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Zhu Chen , Mert Edgü , Er Jin , Johannes Stegmaier

Tracking living cells in video sequence is difficult, because of cell morphology and high similarities between cells. Tracking-by-detection methods are widely used in multi-cell tracking. We perform multi-cell tracking based on the cell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Zibin Zhou , Fei Wang , Wenjuan Xi , Huaying Chen , Peng Gao , Chengkang He

Our work targets automated analysis to quantify the growth dynamics of a population of bacilliform bacteria. We propose an innovative approach to frame-sequence tracking of deformable-cell motion by the automated minimization of a new,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Sorena Sarmadi , James J. Winkle , Razan N. Alnahhas , Matthew R. Bennett , Krešimir Josić , Andreas Mang , Robert Azencott

Tracking Facial Points in unconstrained videos is challenging due to the non-rigid deformation that changes over time. In this paper, we propose to exploit incremental learning for person-specific alignment in wild conditions. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Xi Peng , Qiong Hu , Junzhou Huang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Analyzing the dynamic changes of cellular morphology is important for understanding the various functions and characteristics of live cells, including stem cells and metastatic cancer cells. To this end, we need to track all points on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Junbong Jang , Kwonmoo Lee , Tae-Kyun Kim

This work proposes a novel framework for visual tracking based on the integration of an iterative particle filter, a deep convolutional neural network, and a correlation filter. The iterative particle filter enables the particles to correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Reza Jalil Mozhdehi , Henry Medeiros

We propose an object tracking method, SFTrack++, that smoothly learns to preserve the tracked object consistency over space and time dimensions by taking a spectral clustering approach over the graph of pixels from the video, using a fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Elena Burceanu

This paper proposes a novel approach to create an automated visual surveillance system which is very efficient in detecting and tracking moving objects in a video captured by moving camera without any apriori information about the captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Kumar S. Ray , Soma Chakraborty

Cell segmentation and tracking in microscopy images are of great significance to new discoveries in biology and medicine. In this study, we propose a novel approach to combine cell segmentation and cell tracking into a unified end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Yuqian Chen , Yang Song , Chaoyi Zhang , Fan Zhang , Lauren O'Donnell , Wojciech Chrzanowski , Weidong Cai

X-ray phase-contrast imaging offers enhanced sensitivity for weakly-attenuating materials, such as breast and brain tissue, but has yet to be widely implemented clinically due to high coherence requirements and expensive x-ray optics.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Serena Qinyun Z. Shi , Nadav Shapira , Peter B. Noël , Sebastian Meyer

Correlation filter (CF) based tracking algorithms have demonstrated favorable performance recently. Nevertheless, the top performance trackers always employ complicated optimization methods which constraint their real-time applications. How…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yipeng Ma , Chun Yuan , Peng Gao , Fei Wang

Despite the success of many advanced tracking methods in this area, tracking targets with drastic variation of appearance such as deformation, view change and partial occlusion in video sequences is still a challenge in practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Suofei Zhang , Zhixin Sun , Xu Cheng , Zhenyang Wu

Quantitative tracking of features from video images is a basic technique employed in many areas of science. Here, we present a method for the tracking of features that partially overlap, in order to be able to track so-called colloidal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-24 Casper van der Wel , Daniela J. Kraft

Visual object tracking is a challenging computer vision task with numerous real-world applications. Here we propose a simple but efficient Spectral Filter Tracking (SFT)method. To characterize rotational and translation invariance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Zhen Cui , You yi Cai , Wen ming Zheng , Jian Yang

Conventional cell tracking methods detect multiple cells in each frame (detection) and then associate the detection results in successive time-frames (association). Most cell tracking methods perform the association task independently from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Junya Hayashida , Kazuya Nishimura , Ryoma Bise

In video-records, objects moving in intracellular regions are often hardly detectable and identifiable. In order to squeeze the information on the intracellular flows, we propose an automatic method of reconstruction of intracellular flow…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Kirill Lonhus , Renata Rychtarikova , Ali Ghaznavi , Dalibor Stys

The accurate segmentation and tracking of cells in microscopy image sequences is an important task in biomedical research, e.g., for studying the development of tissues, organs or entire organisms. However, the segmentation of touching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Tim Scherr , Katharina Löffler , Moritz Böhland , Ralf Mikut

Tracking of plant cells in images obtained by microscope is a challenging problem due to biological phenomena such as large number of cells, non-uniform growth of different layers of the tightly packed plant cells and cell division.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Md Shazid Islam , Arindam Dutta , Calvin-Khang Ta , Kevin Rodriguez , Christian Michael , Mark Alber , G. Venugopala Reddy , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Conventional multi-stage cell tracking approaches rely heavily on detection or segmentation in each frame as a prerequisite, requiring substantial resources for high-quality segmentation masks and increasing the overall prediction time. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Yaxuan Song , Jianan Fan , Heng Huang , Mei Chen , Weidong Cai

Cell tracking is a ubiquitous image analysis task in live-cell microscopy. Unlike multiple object tracking (MOT) for natural images, cell tracking typically involves hundreds of similar-looking objects that can divide in each frame, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Benjamin Gallusser , Martin Weigert