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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

Similarity learning has been recognized as a crucial step for object tracking. However, existing multiple object tracking methods only use sparse ground truth matching as the training objective, while ignoring the majority of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Tobias Fischer , Thomas E. Huang , Jiangmiao Pang , Linlu Qiu , Haofeng Chen , Trevor Darrell , Fisher Yu

In this work, we consider data association problems involving multi-object tracking (MOT). In particular, we address the challenges arising from object occlusions. We propose a framework called approximate dynamic programming track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Pratyusha Musunuru , Yuchao Li , Jamison Weber , Dimitri Bertsekas

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

With the advancement of video analysis technology, the multi-object tracking (MOT) problem in complex scenes involving pedestrians is gaining increasing importance. This challenge primarily involves two key tasks: pedestrian detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Jiayi Chen , Chunhua Deng

Data association is a knotty problem for 2D Multiple Object Tracking due to the object occlusion. However, in 3D space, data association is not so hard. Only with a 3D Kalman Filter, the online object tracker can associate the detections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jiawei He , Lue Fan , Yuqi Wang , Yuntao Chen , Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision that requires continuously tracking multiple targets while maintaining consistent identities across frames. However, most existing approaches primarily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanchao Wang , Dawei Zhang , Chengzhuan Yang , Wei Liu , Minglu Li , Hua Wang , Zhonglong Zheng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is an important and practical task related to both surveillance systems and moving camera applications, such as autonomous driving and robotic vision. However, due to unreliable detection, occlusion and fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Gaoang Wang , Yizhou Wang , Haotian Zhang , Renshu Gu , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Multiple object tracking (MOT) in urban traffic aims to produce the trajectories of the different road users that move across the field of view with different directions and speeds and that can have varying appearances and sizes. Occlusions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Hui-Lee Ooi , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Nicolas Saunier , David-Alexandre Beaupré

Simple Online and Realtime Tracking (SORT) is a pragmatic approach to multiple object tracking with a focus on simple, effective algorithms. In this paper, we integrate appearance information to improve the performance of SORT. Due to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Nicolai Wojke , Alex Bewley , Dietrich Paulus

Recent works have shown that combining object detection and tracking tasks, in the case of video data, results in higher performance for both tasks, but they require a high frame-rate as a strict requirement for performance. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Bharti Munjal , Abdul Rafey Aftab , Sikandar Amin , Meltem D. Brandlmaier , Federico Tombari , Fabio Galasso

We propose an online tracking algorithm that performs the object detection and data association under a common framework, capable of linking objects after a long time span. This is realized by preserving a large spatio-temporal memory to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Jiarui Cai , Mingze Xu , Wei Li , Yuanjun Xiong , Wei Xia , Zhuowen Tu , Stefano Soatto

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) focuses on modeling the relationship of detected objects among consecutive frames and merge them into different trajectories. MOT remains a challenging task as noisy and confusing detection results often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Tao Wang , Kean Chen , Weiyao Lin , John See , Zenghui Zhang , Qian Xu , Xia Jia

Multi-object tracking (MOT) enables mobile robots to perform well-informed motion planning and navigation by localizing surrounding objects in 3D space and time. Existing methods rely on depth sensors (e.g., LiDAR) to detect and track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Aleksandr Kim , Aljoša Ošep , Laura Leal-Taixé

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to track multiple objects while maintaining consistent identities across frames of a given video. In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) recorded videos, frequent viewpoint changes and complex UAV-ground relative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jianbo Ma , Hui Luo , Qi Chen , Yuankai Qi , Yumei Sun , Amin Beheshti , Jianlin Zhang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The complex dynamicity of open-world objects presents non-negligible challenges for multi-object tracking (MOT), often manifested as severe deformations, fast motion, and occlusions. Most methods that solely depend on coarse-grained object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Guangze Zheng , Shijie Lin , Haobo Zuo , Changhong Fu , Jia Pan

Object detection has long been a topic of high interest in computer vision literature. Motivated by the fact that annotating data for the multi-object tracking (MOT) problem is immensely expensive, recent studies have turned their attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Son Tran , Cong Tran , Anh Tran , Cuong Pham

Multi-object Tracking (MOT) generally can be split into two sub-tasks, i.e., detection and association. Many previous methods follow the tracking by detection paradigm, which first obtain detections at each frame and then associate them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Mingfei Chen , Yue Liao , Si Liu , Fei Wang , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Multiple object tracking (MOT) has been successfully investigated in computer vision. However, MOT for the videos captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is still challenging due to small object size, blurred object appearance, and very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Mufeng Yao , Jiaqi Wang , Jinlong Peng , Mingmin Chi , Chao Liu

The recent trend in 2D multiple object tracking (MOT) is jointly solving detection and tracking, where object detection and appearance feature (or motion) are learned simultaneously. Despite competitive performance, in crowded scenes, joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Weihong Ren , Denglu Wu , Hui Cao , Xi'ai Chen , Zhi Han , Honghai Liu