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Coordination of radars can be performed in various ways. To be more resilient radar networks can be coordinated in a decentralized way. In this paper, we introduce a highly resilient algorithm for radar coordination based on decentralized…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Pierre Larrenie , Cédric Buron , Frédéric Barbaresco

This paper presents a cooperative multi-robot multi-target tracking framework aimed at enhancing the efficiency of the heterogeneous sensor network and, consequently, improving overall target tracking accuracy. The concept of normalized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Jun Chen , Mohammed Abugurain , Philip Dames , Shinkyu Park

We consider the problem of tracking multiple, unknown, and time-varying numbers of objects using a distributed network of heterogeneous sensors. In an effort to derive a formulation for practical settings, we consider limited and unknown…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Fei Chen , Hoa Van Nguyen , Alex S. Leong , Sabita Panicker , Robin Baker , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Traditionally, object tracking and segmentation are treated as two separate problems and solved independently. However, in this paper, we argue that tracking and segmentation are actually closely related and solving one should help the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Yicong Tian , Mubarak Shah

Multi-object tracking systems often consist of a combination of a detector, a short term linker, a re-identification feature extractor and a solver that takes the output from these separate components and makes a final prediction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Bing Shuai , Andrew G. Berneshawi , Davide Modolo , Joseph Tighe

This paper addresses distributed multi-object tracking over a network of heterogeneous and geographically dispersed nodes with sensing, communication and processing capabilities. The main contribution is an approach to distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-10 C. Fantacci , B. -N. Vo , B. -T. Vo , G. Battistelli , L. Chisci

Data-target pairing is an important step towards multi-target localization for the intelligent operation of unmanned systems. Target localization plays a crucial role in numerous applications, such as search, and rescue missions, traffic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Kasthurirengan Suresh , Samuel Silva , Johnathan Votion , Yongcan Cao

Tracking multiple targets in dynamic environments using distributed sensor networks is a challenging problem for situational awareness in connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs). In such scenarios, the network of mobile sensors must coordinate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Aidan Blair , Amirali Khodadadian Gostar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Xiaodong Li , Reza Hoseinnezhad

We present single-shot multi-object tracker (SMOT), a new tracking framework that converts any single-shot detector (SSD) model into an online multiple object tracker, which emphasizes simultaneously detecting and tracking of the object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Wei Li , Yuanjun Xiong , Shuo Yang , Siqi Deng , Wei Xia

In multi-object tracking applications, model parameter tuning is a prerequisite for reliable performance. In particular, it is difficult to know statistics of false measurements due to various sensing conditions and changes in the field of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Du Yong Kim

Information-driven control can be used to develop intelligent sensors that can optimize their measurement value based on environmental feedback. In object tracking applications, sensor actions are chosen based on the expected reduction in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Keith A. LeGrand , Pingping Zhu , Silvia Ferrari

Visual object tracking is the problem of predicting a target object's state in a video. Generally, bounding-boxes have been used to represent states, and a surge of effort has been spent by the community to produce efficient causal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Matteo Dunnhofer , Niki Martinel , Christian Micheloni

In this paper we are interested in the task of searching and tracking multiple moving targets in a bounded surveillance area with a group of autonomous mobile agents. More specifically, we assume that targets can appear and disappear at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-02 Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

This letter presents a versatile trajectory planning pipeline for aerial tracking. The proposed tracker is capable of handling various chasing settings such as complex unstructured environments, crowded dynamic obstacles and multiple-target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yunwoo Lee , Jungwon Park , Boseong Jeon , Seungwoo Jung , H. Jin Kim

The growing proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) poses major challenges for reliable airspace surveillance, as drones are typically small, have low radar cross-sections, and often move slowly in cluttered environments. These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Anders Malthe Westerkam , Jakob Möderl , Erik Leitinger , Troels Pedersen

Tracking multiple particles in noisy and cluttered scenes remains challenging due to a combinatorial explosion of trajectory hypotheses, which scales super-exponentially with the number of particles and frames. The transformer architecture…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-12 Piyush Mishra , Philippe Roudot

The strategy for track based alignment of the CMS tracking and muon detectors is presented. After an overview over the used data samples, the general alignment strategy is presented, with a focus of the procedures envisaged at the start of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-09-24 Frank-Peter Schilling

Most of the existing single object trackers track the target in a unitary local search window, making them particularly vulnerable to challenging factors such as heavy occlusions and out-of-view movements. Despite the attempts to further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Xiao Wang , Zhe Chen , Jin Tang , Bin Luo , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Feng Wu

This paper considers the problem of detecting and tracking multiple maneuvering targets, which suffers from the intractable inference of high-dimensional latent variables that include target kinematic state, target visibility state, motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Hua Lan , Jirong Ma , Zengfu Wang , Quan Pan , Xiong Xu

In this paper, we propose a metric on the space of finite sets of trajectories for assessing multi-target tracking algorithms in a mathematically sound way. The main use of the metric is to compare estimates of trajectories from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Ángel F. García-Fernández , Abu Sajana Rahmathullah , Lennart Svensson