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This paper considers a collaborative tracking control problem using a group of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with constant and non-identical speeds. The dynamics of fixed-wing UAVs are modelled by unicycle-type equations with…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Zhiyong Sun , Hector Garcia de Marina , Brian D. O. Anderson , Changbin Yu

As a key research direction in the field of multi-object tracking (MOT), UAV-based multi-object tracking has significant application value in the analysis and understanding of urban intelligent transportation systems. However, in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wenguang Tao , Xiaotian Wang , Tian Yan , Jie Yan , Guodong Li , Kun Bai

Filtering point targets in highly cluttered and noisy data frames can be very challenging, especially for complex target motions. Fixed motion models can fail to provide accurate predictions, while learning based algorithm can be difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Mehryar Emambakhsh , Alessandro Bay , Eduard Vazquez

In the field of sensor fusion and state estimation for object detection and localization, ensuring accurate tracking in dynamic environments poses significant challenges. Traditional methods like the Kalman Filter (KF) often fail when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Khaled Gabr , Mohamed Abdelkader , Imen Jarraya , Abdullah AlMusalami , Anis Koubaa

Autonomous target tracking with quadrotors has wide applications in many scenarios, such as cinematographic follow-up shooting or suspect chasing. Target motion prediction is necessary when designing the tracking planner. However, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Qiuyu Ren , Huan Yu , Jiajun Dai , Zhi Zheng , Jun Meng , Li Xu , Chao Xu , Fei Gao , Yanjun Cao

While the design of automated knowledge-based sensor scheduling is relevant to many multi-target detection and tracking problems, tracking algorithms are rarely built for this purpose and their outputs provide little flexibility for the…

Applications · Statistics 2016-07-13 Emmanuel Delande , Jeremie Houssineau , Daniel E. Clark

Exactly estimating and tracking the motion of surrounding dynamic objects is one of important tasks for the autonomy of a quadruped manipulator. However, with only an onboard RGB camera, it is still a challenging work for a quadruped…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Tianlin Zhang , Sikai Guo , Xiaogang Xiong , Wanlei Li , Zezheng Qi , Yunjiang Lou

This work addresses the critical lack of precision in state estimation in the Kalman filter for 3D multi-object tracking (MOT) and the ongoing challenge of selecting the appropriate motion model. Existing literature commonly relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mohamed Nagy , Naoufel Werghi , Bilal Hassan , Jorge Dias , Majid Khonji

Object tracking has been broadly applied in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tasks in recent years. However, existing algorithms still face difficulties such as partial occlusion, clutter background, and other challenging visual factors.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Yujie He , Changhong Fu , Fuling Lin , Yiming Li , Peng Lu

Template-matching methods for visual tracking have gained popularity recently due to their good performance and fast speed. However, they lack effective ways to adapt to changes in the target object's appearance, making their tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Tianyu Yang , Antoni B. Chan

The paper focuses on the problem of vision-based obstacle detection and tracking for unmanned aerial vehicle navigation. A real-time object localization and tracking strategy from monocular image sequences is developed by effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Yuanwei Wu , Yao Sui , Guanghui Wang

In robotics, motion capture systems have been widely used to measure the accuracy of localization algorithms. Moreover, this infrastructure can also be used for other computer vision tasks, such as the evaluation of Visual (-Inertial) SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Junlin Song , Antoine Richard , Miguel Olivares-Mendez

Template-matching methods for visual tracking have gained popularity recently due to their comparable performance and fast speed. However, they lack effective ways to adapt to changes in the target object's appearance, making their tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Tianyu Yang , Antoni B. Chan

Purpose. We present a new method to evaluate the accuracy of an eye tracker based eye localization system. Measuring the accuracy of an eye tracker's primary intention, the estimated point of gaze, is usually done with volunteers and a set…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Stephan Wyder , Philippe C. Cattin

Quantum metrology exploits quantum correlations to make precise measurements with limited particle numbers. By utilizing inter- and intra- mode correlations in an optical interferometer, we find a state that combines entanglement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 P. A. Knott , T. J. Proctor , A. J. Hayes , J. P. Cooling , J. A. Dunningham

Targets that generate multiple measurements at a given instant in time are commonly known as extended targets. These present a challenge for many tracking algorithms, as they violate one of the key assumptions of the standard measurement…

Computation · Statistics 2016-04-20 Michael Beard , Stephan Reuter , Karl Granström , Ba-Tuong Vo , Ba-Ngu Vo , Alexander Scheel

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based visual tracking has been confronted with numerous challenges, e.g., object motion and occlusion. These challenges generally introduce unexpected mutations of target appearance and result in tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Guangze Zheng , Changhong Fu , Junjie Ye , Fuling Lin , Fangqiang Ding

Online selection of optimal waveforms for target tracking with active sensors has long been a problem of interest. Many conventional solutions utilize an estimation-theoretic interpretation, in which a waveform-specific Cram\'{e}r-Rao lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Charles E. Thornton , R. Michael Buehrer , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Anthony F. Martone

This paper addresses adaptive radar detection of dim moving targets. To circumvent range migration, the detection problem is formulated as a multiple hypothesis test and solved applying model order selection rules which allow to estimate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Pia Addabbo , Danilo Orlando , Giuseppe Ricci

Active Search and Tracking for search and rescue missions or collaborative mobile robotics relies on the actuation of a sensing platform to detect and localize a target. In this paper we focus on visually detecting a radio-emitting target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-13 L. Varotto , A. Cenedese , A. Cavallaro