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Recent advances in transformer-based lightweight object tracking have established new standards across benchmarks, leveraging the global receptive field and powerful feature extraction capabilities of attention mechanisms. Despite these…

The identification of hazardous driving behaviors from in-cabin video streams is essential for enhancing road safety and supporting the detection of traffic violations and unsafe driver actions. However, current temporal action localization…

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