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We consider the incomplete multi-graph matching problem, which is a generalization of the NP-hard quadratic assignment problem for matching multiple finite sets. Multi-graph matching plays a central role in computer vision, e.g., for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Max Kahl , Sebastian Stricker , Lisa Hutschenreiter , Florian Bernard , Bogdan Savchynskyy

We propose a data-driven approach to online multi-object tracking (MOT) that uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) for data association in a tracking-by-detection framework. The problem of multi-target tracking aims to assign noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Erkan Baser , Venkateshwaran Balasubramanian , Prarthana Bhattacharyya , Krzysztof Czarnecki

Multiobject tracking provides situational awareness that enables new applications for modern convenience, applied ocean sciences, public safety, and homeland security. In many multiobject tracking applications, including radar and sonar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Thomas Kropfreiter , Jason L. Williams , Florian Meyer

Multi-target tracking is an important problem in civilian and military applications. This paper investigates multi-target tracking in distributed sensor networks. Data association, which arises particularly in multi-object scenarios, can be…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Mark R. Leonard , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

In this work, we develop tracking and estimation techniques relevant to underwater targets. Particularly, we explore particle filtering techniques for target tracking. It is a numerical approximation method for implementing a recursive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 T M Feroz Ali

This study follows many classical approaches to multi-object tracking (MOT) that model the problem using dynamic graphical data structures, and adapts this formulation to make it amenable to modern neural networks. Our main contributions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Akshay Rangesh , Pranav Maheshwari , Mez Gebre , Siddhesh Mhatre , Vahid Ramezani , Mohan M. Trivedi

In this work, we study self-supervised multiple object tracking without using any video-level association labels. We propose to cast the problem of multiple object tracking as learning the frame-wise associations between detections in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Fatemeh Azimi , Fahim Mannan , Felix Heide

Robust multi-object tracking (MOT) is a prerequisite fora safe deployment of self-driving cars. Tracking objects, however, remains a highly challenging problem, especially in cluttered autonomous driving scenes in which objects tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Wei-Chih Hung , Henrik Kretzschmar , Tsung-Yi Lin , Yuning Chai , Ruichi Yu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Dragomir Anguelov

Global optimization algorithms have shown impressive performance in data-association based multi-object tracking, but handling online data remains a difficult hurdle to overcome. In this paper, we present a hybrid data association framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Min Yang , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

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

Multisensor track-to-track fusion for target tracking involves two primary operations: track association and estimation fusion. For estimation fusion, lossless measurement transformation of sensor measurements has been proposed for single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Haiqi Liu , Jiajie Sun , Xuqi Zhang , Fanqin Meng , Xiaojing Shen , Pramod K. Varshney

Multi-hypothesis tracking is a flexible and intuitive approach to tracking multiple nearby objects. However, the original formulation of its data association step is widely thought to scale poorly with the number of tracked objects. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-21 Michael Motro , Joydeep Ghosh

Accurate data association is crucial in reducing confusion, such as ID switches and assignment errors, in multi-object tracking (MOT). However, existing advanced methods often overlook the diversity among trajectories and the ambiguity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Cheng Huang , Shoudong Han , Mengyu He , Wenbo Zheng , Yuhao Wei

Most modern multi-object tracking (MOT) systems follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm. It first localizes the objects of interest, then extracting their individual appearance features to make data association. The individual features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Tianyi Liang , Long Lan , Zhigang Luo

Object detection and data association are critical components in multi-object tracking (MOT) systems. Despite the fact that the two components are dependent on each other, prior works often design detection and data association modules…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yongxin Wang , Kris Kitani , Xinshuo Weng

End-to-end multi-object tracking (MOT) methods have recently achieved remarkable progress by unifying detection and association within a single framework. Despite their strong detection performance, these methods suffer from relatively low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yuqing Shao , Yuchen Yang , Rui Yu , Weilong Li , Xu Guo , Huaicheng Yan , Wei Wang , Xiao Sun

This paper presents a novel approach to improve the accuracy of tracking multiple objects in a static scene using a particle filter system by introducing a data association step, a state queue for the collection of tracked objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-02 R. Alampay , K. Teknomo

We consider multitarget detection and tracking problem for a class of multipath detection system where one target may generate multiple measurements via multiple propagation paths, and the association relationship among targets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Hua Lan , Shuai Sun , Zengfu Wang , Quan Pan , Zhishan Zhang

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

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to associate target objects across video frames in order to obtain entire moving trajectories. With the advancement of deep neural networks and the increasing demand for intelligent video analysis, MOT has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Gaoang Wang , Mingli Song , Jenq-Neng Hwang