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We developed a minimum-cost circulation framework for solving the global data association problem, which plays a key role in the tracking-by-detection paradigm of multi-object tracking. The global data association problem was extensively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Congchao Wang , Yizhi Wang , Guoqiang Yu

Modern multiple object tracking (MOT) systems usually follow the \emph{tracking-by-detection} paradigm. It has 1) a detection model for target localization and 2) an appearance embedding model for data association. Having the two models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Zhongdao Wang , Liang Zheng , Yixuan Liu , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang

Online 3D multi-object tracking (MOT) has witnessed significant research interest in recent years, largely driven by demand from the autonomous systems community. However, 3D offline MOT is relatively less explored. Labeling 3D trajectory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Martin Buchner , Abhinav Valada

Multi-object tracking (MOT) has made great progress in recent years, but there are still some problems. Most MOT algorithms follow tracking-by-detection framework, which separates detection and tracking into two independent parts. Early…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Xuewu Lin , Yu-ang Guo , Jianqiang Wang

Graphs offer a natural way to formulate Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) within the tracking-by-detection paradigm. However, they also introduce a major challenge for learning methods, as defining a model that can operate on such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Guillem Brasó , Laura Leal-Taixé

Target detection and tracking provides crucial information for motion planning and decision making in autonomous driving. This paper proposes an online multi-object tracking (MOT) framework with tracking-by-detection for maneuvering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Zehui Meng , Qi Heng Ho , Zefan Huang , Hongliang Guo , Marcelo H. Ang , Daniela Rus

In this paper, we present a novel method based on online target-specific metric learning and coherent dynamics estimation for tracklet (track fragment) association by network flow optimization in long-term multi-person tracking. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Bing Wang , Gang Wang , Kap Luk Chan , Li Wang

We study the problem of multi-robot active mapping, which aims for complete scene map construction in minimum time steps. The key to this problem lies in the goal position estimation to enable more efficient robot movements. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Kai Ye , Siyan Dong , Qingnan Fan , He Wang , Li Yi , Fei Xia , Jue Wang , Baoquan Chen

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

We propose a graph-based tracking formulation for multi-object tracking (MOT) where target detections contain kinematic information and re-identification features (attributes). Our method applies a successive shortest paths (SSP) algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Griffin Golias , Masa Nakura-Fan , Vitaly Ablavsky

This paper introduces a novel framework to learn data association for multi-object tracking in a self-supervised manner. Fully-supervised learning methods are known to achieve excellent tracking performances, but acquiring identity-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Shuai Li , Michael Burke , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Juergen Gall

Most modern multiple object tracking (MOT) systems follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm, consisting of a detector followed by a method for associating detections into tracks. There is a long history in tracking of combining motion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Mohamed Chaabane , Peter Zhang , J. Ross Beveridge , Stephen O'Hara

The paper presents a new method, SearchTrack, for multiple object tracking and segmentation (MOTS). To address the association problem between detected objects, SearchTrack proposes object-customized search and motion-aware features. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zhong-Min Tsai , Yu-Ju Tsai , Chien-Yao Wang , Hong-Yuan Liao , Youn-Long Lin , Yung-Yu Chuang

Data association is a key step within the multi-object tracking pipeline that is notoriously challenging due to its combinatorial nature. A popular and general way to formulate data association is as the NP-hard multidimensional assignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Patrick Emami , Panos M. Pardalos , Lily Elefteriadou , Sanjay Ranka

Data association is a fundamental component of effective multi-object tracking. Current approaches to data-association tend to frame this as an assignment problem relying on gating and distance-based cost matrices, or offset the challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Michael Burke , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

In this paper, we aim at improving the tracking of road users in urban scenes. We present a constraint programming (CP) approach for the data association phase found in the tracking-by-detection paradigm of the multiple object tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Alexandre Pineault , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Gilles Pesant

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

Existing visual tracking methods usually localize a target object with a bounding box, in which the performance of the foreground object trackers or detectors is often affected by the inclusion of background clutter. To handle this problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Chenglong Li , Liang Lin , Wangmeng Zuo , Jin Tang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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

Online multi-object tracking (MOT) plays a pivotal role in autonomous systems. The state-of-the-art approaches usually employ a tracking-by-detection method, and data association plays a critical role. This paper proposes a learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Zhenrong Zhang , Jianan Liu , Yuxuan Xia , Tao Huang , Qing-Long Han , Hongbin Liu