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We present a novel approach to weakly supervised object detection. Instead of annotated images, our method only requires two short videos to learn to detect a new object: 1) a video of a moving object and 2) one or more "negative" videos of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Rico Jonschkowski , Austin Stone

Object tracking is one of the most important problems in computer vision. The aim of video tracking is to extract the trajectories of a target or object of interest, i.e. accurately locate a moving target in a video sequence and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Niloufar Salehi Dastjerdi , M. Omair Ahmad

The ability to detect and track objects in the visual world is a crucial skill for any intelligent agent, as it is a necessary precursor to any object-level reasoning process. Moreover, it is important that agents learn to track objects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Eric Crawford , Joelle Pineau

Video object segmentation (VOS) aims at pixel-level object tracking given only the annotations in the first frame. Due to the large visual variations of objects in video and the lack of training samples, it remains a difficult task despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Qiang Zhou , Zilong Huang , Lichao Huang , Yongchao Gong , Han Shen , Chang Huang , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Object tracking is an essential task in computer vision that has been studied since the early days of the field. Being able to follow objects that undergo different transformations in the video sequence, including changes in scale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Elena Burceanu , Marius Leordeanu

Unsupervised multi-object segmentation has shown impressive results on images by utilizing powerful semantics learned from self-supervised pretraining. An additional modality such as depth or motion is often used to facilitate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Görkay Aydemir , Weidi Xie , Fatma Güney

Real-time online object tracking in videos constitutes a core task in computer vision, with wide-ranging applications including video surveillance, motion capture, and robotics. Deployed tracking systems usually lack formal safety…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Alejandro Monroy Muñoz , Rajeev Verma , Alexander Timans

This paper presents a weakly-supervised approach to object instance segmentation. Starting with known or predicted object bounding boxes, we learn object masks by playing a game of cut-and-paste in an adversarial learning setup. A mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Tal Remez , Jonathan Huang , Matthew Brown

Video object segmentation targets at segmenting a specific object throughout a video sequence, given only an annotated first frame. Recent deep learning based approaches find it effective by fine-tuning a general-purpose segmentation model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Linjie Yang , Yanran Wang , Xuehan Xiong , Jianchao Yang , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

For many years, multi-object tracking benchmarks have focused on a handful of categories. Motivated primarily by surveillance and self-driving applications, these datasets provide tracks for people, vehicles, and animals, ignoring the vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Achal Dave , Tarasha Khurana , Pavel Tokmakov , Cordelia Schmid , Deva Ramanan

Object tracking quality usually depends on video context (e.g. object occlusion level, object density). In order to decrease this dependency, this paper presents a learning approach to adapt the tracker parameters to the context variations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Duc Phu Chau , Monique Thonnat , François Bremond

Multiple object tracking (MOT) is a crucial task in computer vision society. However, most tracking-by-detection MOT methods, with available detected bounding boxes, cannot effectively handle static, slow-moving and fast-moving camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Jiarui Cai , Yizhou Wang , Haotian Zhang , Hung-Min Hsu , Chengqian Ma , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Significant progress has been achieved in multi-object tracking (MOT) through the evolution of detection and re-identification (ReID) techniques. Despite these advancements, accurately tracking objects in scenarios with homogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Changcheng Xiao , Qiong Cao , Yujie Zhong , Long Lan , Xiang Zhang , Zhigang Luo , Dacheng Tao

What constitutes an object? This has been a long-standing question in computer vision. Towards this goal, numerous learning-free and learning-based approaches have been developed to score objectness. However, they generally do not scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Muhammad Maaz , Hanoona Rasheed , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Ming-Hsuan Yang

In this paper, we propose a novel pixel-wise visual object tracking framework that can track any anonymous object in a noisy background. The framework consists of two submodels, a global attention model and a local segmentation model. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Yilin Song , Chenge Li , Yao Wang

This article addresses the problem of multi-object tracking by using a non-deterministic model of target behaviors with hard constraints. To capture the evolution of target features as well as their locations, we permit objects to lie in a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Michael Robinson , Michael Stein , Henry S. Owen

Due to object detection's close relationship with video analysis and image understanding, it has attracted much research attention in recent years. Traditional object detection methods are built on handcrafted features and shallow trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Zhong-Qiu Zhao , Peng Zheng , Shou-tao Xu , Xindong Wu

Handling occlusion remains a significant challenge for video instance-level tasks like Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) and Video Instance Segmentation (VIS). In this paper, we propose a novel framework, Amodal-Aware Video Instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Minh Tran , Thang Pham , Winston Bounsavy , Tri Nguyen , Ngan Le

Object tracking is an important step in robotics and reautonomous driving pipelines, which has to generalize to previously unseen and complex objects. Existing high-performing methods often rely on pre-captured object views to build…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Nikolai Goncharov , James L. Gray , Donald G. Dansereau

Effective tracking of surrounding traffic participants allows for an accurate state estimation as a necessary ingredient for prediction of future behavior and therefore adequate planning of the ego vehicle trajectory. One approach for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Patrick Palmer , Martin Krüger , Richard Altendorfer , Torsten Bertram