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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

In many real-world applications involving static environments, the spatial layout of objects remains consistent across instances. However, state-of-the-art object detection models often fail to leverage this spatial prior, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Vishakha Lall , Yisi Liu

Tracking has traditionally been the art of following interest points through space and time. This changed with the rise of powerful deep networks. Nowadays, tracking is dominated by pipelines that perform object detection followed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Xingyi Zhou , Vladlen Koltun , Philipp Krähenbühl

Object tracking becomes critical especially when similar objects are present in the same area. Recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) approaches are proposed based on taking a matching network with a heavy structure to distinguish the target from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Faraz Lotfi , Hamid D. Taghirad

We propose a method for multi-object tracking and segmentation based on a novel memory-based mechanism to associate tracklets. The proposed tracker, MeNToS, addresses particularly the long-term data association problem, when objects are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Mehdi Miah , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Nicolas Saunier

In current perception systems applied to the rebuilding of the environment for intelligent vehicles, the part reserved to object association for the tracking is increasingly significant. This allows firstly to follow the objects temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Dominique Gruyer , Veronique Berge-Cherfaoui

The tracking-by-detection paradigm is the mainstream in multi-object tracking, associating tracks to the predictions of an object detector. Although exhibiting uncertainty through a confidence score, these predictions do not capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Edgardo Solano-Carrillo , Felix Sattler , Antje Alex , Alexander Klein , Bruno Pereira Costa , Angel Bueno Rodriguez , Jannis Stoppe

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) in thermal imaging presents unique challenges due to the lack of visual features and the complexity of motion patterns. This paper introduces an innovative approach to improve MOT in the thermal domain by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Wassim El Ahmar , Dhanvin Kolhatkar , Farzan Nowruzi , Robert Laganiere

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in monocular videos is fundamentally challenged by occlusions and depth ambiguity, issues that conventional tracking-by-detection (TBD) methods struggle to resolve owing to a lack of geometric awareness. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xudong Han , Pengcheng Fang , Yueying Tian , Jianhui Yu , Xiaohao Cai , Daniel Roggen , Philip Birch

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) aims to maintain stable and uninterrupted trajectories for each target. Most state-of-the-art approaches first detect objects in each frame and then implement data association between new detections and existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Fei Wang , Ruohui Zhang , Chenglin Chen , Min Yang , Yun Bai

Current popular online multi-object tracking (MOT) solutions apply single object trackers (SOTs) to capture object motions, while often requiring an extra affinity network to associate objects, especially for the occluded ones. This brings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Junbo Yin , Wenguan Wang , Qinghao Meng , Ruigang Yang , Jianbing Shen

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

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in human-dominant scenarios, which involves continuously tracking multiple people within video sequences, remains a significant challenge in computer vision due to targets' complex motion and severe occlusions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yingjie Wang , Zhixing Wang , Le Zheng , Tianxiao Liu , Roujing Li , Xueyao Hu

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

Tracking-by-detection has become the de facto standard approach to people tracking. To increase robustness, some approaches incorporate re-identification using appearance models and regressing motion offset, which requires costly identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Martin Engilberge , F. Wilke Grosche , Pascal Fua

Recent progress in multiple object tracking (MOT) has shown that a robust similarity score is key to the success of trackers. A good similarity score is expected to reflect multiple cues, e.g. appearance, location, and topology, over a long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Jiarui Xu , Yue Cao , Zheng Zhang , Han Hu

The automatization of Multi-Object Tracking becomes a demanding task in real unconstrained scenarios, where the algorithms have to deal with crowds, crossing people, occlusions, disappearances and the presence of visually similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 María J. Gómez-Silva

Detection and learning based appearance feature play the central role in data association based multiple object tracking (MOT), but most recent MOT works usually ignore them and only focus on the hand-crafted feature and association…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Fengwei Yu , Wenbo Li , Quanquan Li , Yu Liu , Xiaohua Shi , Junjie Yan

Data associations in multi-target multi-camera tracking (MTMCT) usually estimate affinity directly from re-identification (re-ID) feature distances. However, we argue that it might not be the best choice given the difference in matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Yunzhong Hou , Zhongdao Wang , Shengjin Wang , Liang Zheng

Recent graph convolutional neural networks (GCNs) have shown high performance in the field of human action recognition by using human skeleton poses. However, it fails to detect human-object interaction cases successfully due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Hesham M. Shehata , Mohammad Abdolrahmani