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We address the problem of multi-modal object tracking in video and explore various options of fusing the complementary information conveyed by the visible (RGB) and thermal infrared (TIR) modalities including pixel-level, feature-level and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Zhangyong Tang , Tianyang Xu , Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Xuefeng Zhu , Josef Kittler

Deep learning models are known to function like the human brain. Due to their functional mechanism, they are frequently utilized to accomplish tasks that require human intelligence. Multi-target tracking (MTT) for video surveillance is one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Sanam Nisar Mangi

Nowadays, infrared target tracking has been a critical technology in the field of computer vision and has many applications, such as motion analysis, pedestrian surveillance, intelligent detection, and so forth. Unfortunately, due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Wei-Jie Yan , Yun-Kai Xu , Qian Chen , Xiao-Fang Kong , Guo-Hua Gu , A-Jun Shao , Min-Jie Wan

Existing multi-modal object tracking approaches primarily focus on dual-modal paradigms, such as RGB-Depth or RGB-Thermal, yet remain challenged in complex scenarios due to limited input modalities. To address this gap, this work introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xue-Feng Zhu , Tianyang Xu , Yifan Pan , Jinjie Gu , Xi Li , Jiwen Lu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

Thermal infrared (TIR) image has proven effectiveness in providing temperature cues to the RGB features for multispectral pedestrian detection. Most existing methods directly inject the TIR modality into the RGB-based framework or simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Xiaoxiao Yang , Yeqian Qiang , Huijie Zhu , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Thermal infrared imaging exhibits considerable potentials for robotic perception tasks, especially in environments with poor visibility or challenging lighting conditions. However, TIR images typically suffer from heavy non-uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Tai Hyoung Rhee , Dong-guw Lee , Ayoung Kim

Compared with visible object tracking, thermal infrared (TIR) object tracking can track an arbitrary target in total darkness since it cannot be influenced by illumination variations. However, there are many unwanted attributes that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Peng Gao , Yipeng Ma , Ke Song , Chao Li , Fei Wang , Liyi Xiao

Cross-spectrum depth estimation aims to provide a depth map in all illumination conditions with a pair of dual-spectrum images. It is valuable for autonomous vehicle applications when the vehicle is equipped with two cameras of different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yubin Guo , Haobo Jiang , Xinlei Qi , Jin Xie , Cheng-Zhong Xu , Hui Kong

This paper proposes a thermal-infrared (TIR) remote target detection system for maritime rescue using deep learning and data augmentation. We established a self-collected TIR dataset consisting of multiple scenes imitating human rescue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Sungjin Cheong , Wonho Jung , Yoon Seop Lim , Yong-Hwa Park

We introduce, XoFTR, a cross-modal cross-view method for local feature matching between thermal infrared (TIR) and visible images. Unlike visible images, TIR images are less susceptible to adverse lighting and weather conditions but present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Önder Tuzcuoğlu , Aybora Köksal , Buğra Sofu , Sinan Kalkan , A. Aydın Alatan

A well-trained model should classify objects with a unanimous score for every category. This requires the high-level semantic features should be as much alike as possible among samples. To achive this, previous works focus on re-designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Hongyang Li , Bo Dai , Shaoshuai Shi , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang

Stable imaging in adverse environments (e.g., total darkness) makes thermal infrared (TIR) cameras a prevalent option for night scene perception. However, the low contrast and lack of chromaticity of TIR images are detrimental to human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Fu-Ya Luo , Shu-Lin Liu , Yi-Jun Cao , Kai-Fu Yang , Chang-Yong Xie , Yong Liu , Yong-Jie Li

Object detection in thermal infrared spectrum provides more reliable data source in low-lighting conditions and different weather conditions, as it is useful both in-cabin and outside for pedestrian, animal, and vehicular detection as well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Muhammad Ali Farooq , Peter Corcoran , Cosmin Rotariu , Waseem Shariff

Robustness and discrimination power are two fundamental requirements in visual object tracking. In most tracking paradigms, we find that the features extracted by the popular Siamese-like networks cannot fully discriminatively model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Fei Xie , Chunyu Wang , Guangting Wang , Yue Cao , Wankou Yang , Wenjun Zeng

Integrating multispectral data in object detection, especially visible and infrared images, has received great attention in recent years. Since visible (RGB) and infrared (IR) images can provide complementary information to handle light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Maoxun Yuan , Yinyan Wang , Xingxing Wei

We propose an end-to-end tracking framework for fusing the RGB and TIR modalities in RGB-T tracking. Our baseline tracker is DiMP (Discriminative Model Prediction), which employs a carefully designed target prediction network trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Lichao Zhang , Martin Danelljan , Abel Gonzalez-Garcia , Joost van de Weijer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Can we improve detection in the thermal domain by borrowing features from rich domains like visual RGB? In this paper, we propose a pseudo-multimodal object detector trained on natural image domain data to help improve the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Chaitanya Devaguptapu , Ninad Akolekar , Manuj M Sharma , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Despite the inherent advantages of thermal infrared(TIR) imaging, large-scale data collection and annotation remain a major bottleneck for TIR-based perception. A practical alternative is to synthesize pseudo TIR data via image translation;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Dong-Guw Lee , Tai Hyoung Rhee , Hyunsoo Jang , Young-Sik Shin , Ukcheol Shin , Ayoung Kim

It remains a huge challenge to design effective and efficient trackers under complex scenarios, including occlusions, illumination changes and pose variations. To cope with this problem, a promising solution is to integrate the temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Peng Zhang , Shujian Yu , Jiamiao Xu , Xinge You , Xiubao Jiang , Xiao-Yuan Jing , Dacheng Tao

Vision sensors are becoming more important in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for traffic monitoring, management, and optimization as the number of network cameras continues to rise. However, manual object tracking and matching…

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