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A commonly encountered problem is the tracking of a physical object, like a maneuvering ship, aircraft, land vehicle, spacecraft or animate creature carrying a wireless device. The sensor data is often limited and inaccurate observations of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Kevin Judd

Modern robotic systems are required to operate in dense dynamic environments, requiring highly accurate real-time track identification and estimation. For 3D multi-object tracking, recent approaches process a single measurement frame…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sandro Papais , Robert Ren , Steven Waslander

Existing nighttime unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) trackers follow an "Enhance-then-Track" architecture - first using a light enhancer to brighten the nighttime video, then employing a daytime tracker to locate the object. This separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Jiawen Zhu , Huayi Tang , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Jun-Yan He , Bin Luo , Shihao Qiu , Shengming Li , Huchuan Lu

Enhancement of images from RGB cameras is of particular interest due to its wide range of ever-increasing applications such as medical imaging, satellite imaging, automated driving, etc. In autonomous driving, various techniques are used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Mohamed Sabry , Gregory Schroeder , Joshua Varughese , Cristina Olaverri-Monreal

Automatic detection of animals that have strayed into human inhabited areas has important security and road safety applications. This paper attempts to solve this problem using deep learning techniques from a variety of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Abhineet Singh , Marcin Pietrasik , Gabriell Natha , Nehla Ghouaiel , Ken Brizel , Nilanjan Ray

This article provides an elaborate overview of current research in extended object tracking. We provide a clear definition of the extended object tracking problem and discuss its delimitation to other types of object tracking. Next,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Karl Granstrom , Marcus Baum , Stephan Reuter

A classic task in robotics is tracking a target in the external environment. There are several well-documented approaches to this problem. This paper presents a novel approach to this problem using infrared time of flight sensors. The use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Noah Haeske

Current state-of-the-art trackers often fail due to distractorsand large object appearance changes. In this work, we explore the use ofdense optical flow to improve tracking robustness. Our main insight is that, because flow estimation can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Jianing Qian , Junyu Nan , Siddharth Ancha , Brian Okorn , David Held

We propose TRADE for robust tracking and 3D localization of a moving target in cluttered environments, from UAVs equipped with a single camera. Ultimately TRADE enables 3d-aware target following. Tracking-by-detection approaches are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Pedro F. Proença , Patrick Spieler , Robert A. Hewitt , Jeff Delaune

This work focuses on multi-target tracking in Video synthetic aperture radar. Specifically, we refer to tracking based on targets' shadows. Current methods have limited accuracy as they fail to consider shadows' characteristics and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Xiaochuan Ni , Xiaoling Zhang , Xu Zhan , Zhenyu Yang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Tianjiao Zeng

Tracking specific targets, such as pedestrians and vehicles, has been the focus of recent vision-based multitarget tracking studies. However, in some real-world scenarios, unseen categories often challenge existing methods due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Zewei Wu , Longhao Wang , Cui Wang , César Teixeira , Wei Ke , Zhang Xiong

Tracking multiple moving targets allows quantitative measure of the dynamic behavior in systems as diverse as animal groups in biology, turbulence in fluid dynamics and crowd and traffic control. In three dimensions, tracking several…

In recent years, several progressive works promote the development of aerial tracking. One of the representative works is our previous work Fast-tracker which is applicable to various challenging tracking scenarios. However, it suffers from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Neng Pan , Ruibin Zhang , Tiankai Yang , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Person-tracking robots have many applications, such as in security, elderly care, and socializing robots. Such a task is particularly challenging when the person is moving in a Uniform crowd. Also, despite significant progress of trackers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Adarsh Ghimire , Xiaoxiong Zhang , Sajid Javed , Jorge Dias , Naoufel Werghi

Aerial wildlife tracking is critical for conservation efforts and relies on detecting small objects on the ground below the aircraft. It presents technical challenges: crewed aircraft are expensive, risky and disruptive; autonomous drones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Christopher Indris , Raiyan Rahman , Goetz Bramesfeld , Guanghui Wang

Light tracking systems have been used in recent years to study wandering phenomena in atmospheric optics. We propose to employ this technology in structural deformation sensing.

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-12-16 Damián Gulich , Mario Garavaglia

Feature tracking in video is a crucial task in computer vision. Usually, the tracking problem is handled one feature at a time, using a single-feature tracker like the Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi algorithm, or one of its derivatives. While this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Bryan Poling , Gilad Lerman , Arthur Szlam

Identifying firefly flashes from other bright features in nature images is complicated. I provide a training dataset and trained neural networks for reliable flash classification. The training set consists of thousands of cropped images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Raphael Sarfati

Visual object tracking has gained promising progress in past decades. Most of the existing approaches focus on learning target representation in well-conditioned daytime data, while for the unconstrained real-world scenarios with adverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Siyuan Yao , Rui Zhu , Ziqi Wang , Wenqi Ren , Yanyang Yan , Xiaochun Cao

Fish tracking is a key technology for obtaining movement trajectories and identifying abnormal behavior. However, it faces considerable challenges, including occlusion, multi-scale tracking, and fish deformation. Notably, extant reviews…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Weiran Li , Zhenbo Li , Fei Li , Meng Yuan , Chaojun Cen , Yanyu Qi , Qiannan Guo , You Li