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Drone-based target detection presents inherent challenges, such as the high density and overlap of targets in drone-based images, as well as the blurriness of targets under varying lighting conditions, which complicates identification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yuchen Zheng , Yuxin Jing , Jufeng Zhao , Guangmang Cui

Single Object Tracking in LiDAR point cloud is one of the most essential parts of environmental perception, in which small objects are inevitable in real-world scenarios and will bring a significant barrier to the accurate location.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Shengjing Tian , Yinan Han , Xiuping Liu , Xiantong Zhao

While one-stage detectors like YOLOv8 offer fast training speed, they often under-perform on detecting small objects as a trade-off. This becomes even more critical when detecting tiny objects in aerial imagery due to low-resolution targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Kihyun Kim , Michalis Lazarou , Tania Stathaki

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) has been a long-standing challenge in video understanding. A natural and intuitive approach is to split this task into two parts: object detection and association. Most mainstream methods employ meticulously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ruopeng Gao , Ji Qi , Limin Wang

We propose a new context-aware correlation filter based tracking framework to achieve both high computational speed and state-of-the-art performance among real-time trackers. The major contribution to the high computational speed lies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Jongwon Choi , Hyung Jin Chang , Tobias Fischer , Sangdoo Yun , Kyuewang Lee , Jiyeoup Jeong , Yiannis Demiris , Jin Young Choi

State-of-the-art multi-object tracking~(MOT) methods follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm, where object trajectories are obtained by associating per-frame outputs of object detectors. In crowded scenes, however, detectors often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Weihong Ren , Xinchao Wang , Jiandong Tian , Yandong Tang , Antoni B. Chan

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a crucial component of situational awareness in military defense applications. With the growing use of unmanned aerial systems (UASs), MOT methods for aerial surveillance is in high demand. Application of MOT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Wanlin Xie , Jaime Ide , Daniel Izadi , Sean Banger , Thayne Walker , Ryan Ceresani , Dylan Spagnuolo , Christopher Guagliano , Henry Diaz , Jason Twedt

Multi-object tracking under low-light environments is prevalent in real life. Recent years have seen rapid development in the field of multi-object tracking. However, due to the lack of datasets and the high cost of annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zijing Zhao , Jianlong Yu , Lin Zhang , Shunli Zhang

As airborne vehicles are becoming more autonomous and ubiquitous, it has become vital to develop the capability to detect the objects in their surroundings. This paper attempts to address the problem of drones detection from other flying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Muhammad Waseem Ashraf , Waqas Sultani , Mubarak Shah

Object detection from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is of great importance in many aerial vision-based applications. Despite the great success of generic object detection methods, a significant performance drop is observed when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Benjamin Kiefer , Martin Messmer , Andreas Zell

Drone equipped with cameras can dynamically track the target in the air from a broader view compared with static cameras or moving sensors over the ground. However, it is still challenging to accurately track the target using a single drone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Pengfei Zhu , Jiayu Zheng , Dawei Du , Longyin Wen , Yiming Sun , Qinghua Hu

In this paper, we address the challenge of Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) in moving Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) scenarios, where irregular flight trajectories, such as hovering, turning left/right, and moving up/down, lead to significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Deyi Ji , Lanyun Zhu , Siqi Gao , Qi Zhu , Yiru Zhao , Peng Xu , Yue Ding , Hongtao Lu , Jieping Ye , Feng Wu , Feng Zhao

Generic Object Tracking (GOT) is the problem of tracking target objects, specified by bounding boxes in the first frame of a video. While the task has received much attention in the last decades, researchers have almost exclusively focused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Christoph Mayer , Martin Danelljan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool , Alina Kuznetsova

Correlation filter-based tracking has been widely applied in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with high efficiency. However, it has two imperfections, i.e., boundary effect and filter corruption. Several methods enlarging the search area can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Yiming Li , Changhong Fu , Ziyuan Huang , Yinqiang Zhang , Jia Pan

The problem of multi-object tracking is a fundamental computer vision research focus, widely used in public safety, transport, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and other regions involving artificial intelligence. Because of the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Kai Ren , Chuanping Hu

A fundamental component of modern trackers is an online learned tracking model, which is typically modeled either globally or locally. The two kinds of models perform differently in terms of effectiveness and robustness under different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Yao Sui , Guanghui Wang , Yafei Tang , Li Zhang

Searching for small objects in large images is a task that is both challenging for current deep learning systems and important in numerous real-world applications, such as remote sensing and medical imaging. Thorough scanning of very large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Nathan Drenkow , Philippe Burlina , Neil Fendley , Onyekachi Odoemene , Jared Markowitz

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

Detecting small targets at range is difficult because there is not enough spatial information present in an image sub-region containing the target to use correlation-based methods to differentiate it from dynamic confusers present in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Tegan Emerson , Sarah Tymochko , George Stantchev , Jason A. Edelberg , Michael Wilson , Colin C. Olson

This paper investigates the problem of traffic surveillance using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and proposes a domain-knowledge-aided airborne ground moving targets tracking algorithm. To improve the accuracy of multiple targets…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Jianduo Chai , Shaoming He , Hyo-Sang Shin