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Modern multi-object tracking (MOT) system usually involves separated modules, such as motion model for location and appearance model for data association. However, the compatible problems within both motion and appearance models are always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Piao Huang , Shoudong Han , Jun Zhao , Donghaisheng Liu , Hongwei Wang , En Yu , Alex ChiChung Kot

Multiobject tracking (MOT) is an important task in robotics, autonomous driving, and maritime surveillance. Traditional work on MOT is model-based and aims to establish algorithms in the framework of sequential Bayesian estimation. More…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Shaoxiu Wei , Mingchao Liang , Florian Meyer

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) plays a critical role in analyzing player behavior from videos, enabling performance evaluation. Current MOT methods are often evaluated using publicly available datasets. However, most of these focus on everyday…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Rintaro Otsubo , Kanta Sawafuji , Hideo Saito

Data association-based multiple object tracking (MOT) involves multiple separated modules processed or optimized differently, which results in complex method design and requires non-trivial tuning of parameters. In this paper, we present an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Peng Chu , Haibin Ling

3D multi-object tracking (MOT) is an essential component for many applications such as autonomous driving and assistive robotics. Recent work on 3D MOT focuses on developing accurate systems giving less attention to practical considerations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Xinshuo Weng , Jianren Wang , David Held , Kris Kitani

Visual Object Tracking (VOT) aims to estimate the positions of target objects in a video sequence, which is an important vision task with various real-world applications. Depending on whether the initial states of target objects are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Junke Wang , Zuxuan Wu , Dongdong Chen , Chong Luo , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Yu-Gang Jiang

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) is crucial to autonomous vehicle perception. End-to-end transformer-based algorithms, which detect and track objects simultaneously, show great potential for the MOT task. However, most existing methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Ce Zhang , Chengjie Zhang , Yiluan Guo , Lingji Chen , Michael Happold

This paper proposes an online visual multi-object tracking (MOT) algorithm that resolves object appearance-reappearance and occlusion. Our solution is based on the labeled random finite set (LRFS) filtering approach, which in principle,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Linh Van Ma , Tran Thien Dat Nguyen , Changbeom Shim , Du Yong Kim , Namkoo Ha , Moongu Jeon

The development of smart cities has led to the generation of massive amounts of multi-modal data in the context of a range of tasks that enable a comprehensive monitoring of the smart city infrastructure and services. This paper surveys one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zhangyong Tang , Tianyang Xu , Xuefeng Zhu , Hui Li , Shaochuan Zhao , Tao Zhou , Chunyang Cheng , Xiaojun Wu , Josef Kittler

In the realm of video analysis, the field of multiple object tracking (MOT) assumes paramount importance, with the motion state of objects-whether static or dynamic relative to the ground-holding practical significance across diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yang Feng , Liao Pan , Wu Di , Liu Bo , Zhang Xingle

This paper introduces MCTrack, a new 3D multi-object tracking method that achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance across KITTI, nuScenes, and Waymo datasets. Addressing the gap in existing tracking paradigms, which often perform well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xiyang Wang , Shouzheng Qi , Jieyou Zhao , Hangning Zhou , Siyu Zhang , Guoan Wang , Kai Tu , Songlin Guo , Jianbo Zhao , Jian Li , Mu Yang

The aim of in-trawl catch monitoring for use in fishing operations is to detect, track and classify fish targets in real-time from video footage. Information gathered could be used to release unwanted bycatch in real-time. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Cheng-Yen Yang , Alan Yu Shyang Tan , Melanie J. Underwood , Charlotte Bodie , Zhongyu Jiang , Steve George , Karl Warr , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Emma Jones

Multi-objective search (MOS) has emerged as a unifying framework for planning and decision-making problems where multiple, often conflicting, criteria must be balanced. While the problem has been studied for decades, recent years have seen…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Oren Salzman , Carlos Hernández Ulloa , Ariel Felner , Sven Koenig

There exists no comprehensive metric for describing the complexity of Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) sequences. This lack of metrics decreases explainability, complicates comparison of datasets, and reduces the conversation on tracker…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Malte Pedersen , Joakim Bruslund Haurum , Patrick Dendorfer , Thomas B. Moeslund

Multiobject tracking (MOT) is an important task in applications including autonomous driving, ocean sciences, and aerospace surveillance. Traditional MOT methods are model-based and combine sequential Bayesian estimation with data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Shaoxiu Wei , Mingchao Liang , Florian Meyer

Deep learning-based Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) currently relies on off-the-shelf detectors for tracking-by-detection.This results in deep models that are detector biased and evaluations that are detector influenced. To resolve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 ShiJie Sun , Naveed Akhtar , XiangYu Song , HuanSheng Song , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah

Multi-animal tracking (MAT), a multi-object tracking (MOT) problem, is crucial for animal motion and behavior analysis and has many crucial applications such as biology, ecology and animal conservation. Despite its importance, MAT is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Libo Zhang , Junyuan Gao , Zhen Xiao , Heng Fan

Multi-object tracking (MOT) with camera-LiDAR fusion demands accurate results of object detection, affinity computation and data association in real time. This paper presents an efficient multi-modal MOT framework with online joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Kemiao Huang , Qi Hao

Different from existing MOT (Multi-Object Tracking) techniques that usually aim at improving tracking accuracy and average FPS, real-time systems such as autonomous vehicles necessitate new requirements of MOT under limited computing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-24 Donghwa Kang , Seunghoon Lee , Hoon Sung Chwa , Seung-Hwan Bae , Chang Mook Kang , Jinkyu Lee , Hyeongboo Baek

Temporal forward-tracking has been the dominant approach for multi-object segmentation and tracking (MOTS). However, a novel time-symmetric tracking methodology has recently been introduced for the detection, segmentation, and tracking of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Gergely Szabó , Zsófia Molnár , András Horváth