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Pedestrian detection in RGB images is a key task in pedestrian safety, as the most common sensor in autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems is the RGB camera. A challenge in RGB pedestrian detection, that does not appear…

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Object detection in thermal infrared spectrum provides more reliable data source in low-lighting conditions and different weather conditions, as it is useful both in-cabin and outside for pedestrian, animal, and vehicular detection as well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Muhammad Ali Farooq , Peter Corcoran , Cosmin Rotariu , Waseem Shariff

Pedestrian attribute recognition aims to assign multiple attributes to one pedestrian image captured by a video surveillance camera. Although numerous methods are proposed and make tremendous progress, we argue that it is time to step back…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jian Jia , Houjing Huang , Xiaotang Chen , Kaiqi Huang

The growing demand for intelligent environments unleashes an extraordinary cycle of privacy-aware applications that makes individuals' life more comfortable and safe. Examples of these applications include pedestrian tracking systems in…

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Rapid advances in deep learning for computer vision have driven the adoption of RGB camera-based adaptive traffic light systems to improve traffic safety and pedestrian comfort. However, these systems often overlook the needs of people with…

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Achieving robust and accurate spatial perception under adverse weather and lighting conditions is crucial for the high-level autonomy of self-driving vehicles and robots. However, existing perception algorithms relying on the visible…

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Visual object tracking with the visible (RGB) and thermal infrared (TIR) electromagnetic waves, shorted in RGBT tracking, recently draws increasing attention in the tracking community. Considering the rapid development of deep learning, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zhangyong Tang , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu

Thermal images are mainly used to detect the presence of people at night or in bad lighting conditions, but perform poorly at daytime. To solve this problem, most state-of-the-art techniques employ a fusion network that uses features from…

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Existing cross-modal pedestrian detection (CMPD) employs complementary information from RGB and thermal-infrared (TIR) modalities to detect pedestrians in 24h-surveillance systems.RGB captures rich pedestrian details under daylight, while…

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Visible images have been widely used for motion estimation. Thermal images, in contrast, are more challenging to be used in motion estimation since they typically have lower resolution, less texture, and more noise. In this paper, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Weichen Dai , Yu Zhang , Shenzhou Chen , Donglei Sun , Da Kong

Multispectral pedestrian detection has attracted increasing attention from the research community due to its crucial competence for many around-the-clock applications (e.g., video surveillance and autonomous driving), especially under…

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Visual tracking has advanced significantly in recent years, mainly due to the availability of large-scale training datasets. These datasets have enabled the development of numerous algorithms that can track objects with high accuracy and…

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We introduce ITTO, a challenging new benchmark suite for evaluating and diagnosing the capabilities and limitations of point tracking methods. Our videos are sourced from existing datasets and egocentric real-world recordings, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ilona Demler , Saumya Chauhan , Georgia Gkioxari

Compared with visible object tracking, thermal infrared (TIR) object tracking can track an arbitrary target in total darkness since it cannot be influenced by illumination variations. However, there are many unwanted attributes that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Peng Gao , Yipeng Ma , Ke Song , Chao Li , Fei Wang , Liyi Xiao

Accurate characterization of thermal emitters can be challenging due to the presence of background thermal emission from components of the experimental setup and the surrounding environment. This is especially true for an emitter operating…

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Visual tracking has achieved considerable progress in recent years. However, current research in the field mainly focuses on tracking of opaque objects, while little attention is paid to transparent object tracking. In this paper, we make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Heng Fan , Halady Akhilesha Miththanthaya , Harshit , Siranjiv Ramana Rajan , Xiaoqiong Liu , Zhilin Zou , Yuewei Lin , Haibin Ling

Pedestrian detection is a critical task in robot perception. Multispectral modalities (visible light and thermal) can boost pedestrian detection performance by providing complementary visual information. Several gaps remain with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Asiegbu Miracle Kanu-Asiegbu , Nitin Jotwani , Xiaoxiao Du

Visual object tracking with RGB and thermal infrared (TIR) spectra available, shorted in RGBT tracking, is a novel and challenging research topic which draws increasing attention nowadays. In this paper, we propose an RGBT tracker which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zhangyong Tang , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu

Cross-spectrum depth estimation aims to provide a depth map in all illumination conditions with a pair of dual-spectrum images. It is valuable for autonomous vehicle applications when the vehicle is equipped with two cameras of different…

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