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Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims at estimating bounding boxes and identities of objects in videos. Most methods obtain identities by associating detection boxes whose scores are higher than a threshold. The objects with low detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Yifu Zhang , Peize Sun , Yi Jiang , Dongdong Yu , Fucheng Weng , Zehuan Yuan , Ping Luo , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) is a long-standing task in computer vision. Current approaches based on the tracking by detection paradigm either require some sort of domain knowledge or supervision to associate data correctly into tracks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Kalun Ho , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

The main challenge of Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) is the efficiency in associating indefinite number of objects between video frames. Standard motion estimators used in tracking, e.g., Long Short Term Memory (LSTM), only deal with single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Jimuyang Zhang , Sanping Zhou , Jinjun Wang , Dong Huang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision that requires continuously tracking multiple targets while maintaining consistent identities across frames. However, most existing approaches primarily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanchao Wang , Dawei Zhang , Chengzhuan Yang , Wei Liu , Minglu Li , Hua Wang , Zhonglong Zheng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

This paper extends the popular task of multi-object tracking to multi-object tracking and segmentation (MOTS). Towards this goal, we create dense pixel-level annotations for two existing tracking datasets using a semi-automatic annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Paul Voigtlaender , Michael Krause , Aljosa Osep , Jonathon Luiten , Berin Balachandar Gnana Sekar , Andreas Geiger , Bastian Leibe

Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD), aiming to explore unlabeled data for boosting object detectors, has become an active task in recent years. However, existing SSOD approaches mainly focus on horizontal objects, leaving multi-oriented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Wei Hua , Dingkang Liang , Jingyu Li , Xiaolong Liu , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiang Bai

Temporal modeling of objects is a key challenge in multiple object tracking (MOT). Existing methods track by associating detections through motion-based and appearance-based similarity heuristics. The post-processing nature of association…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Fangao Zeng , Bin Dong , Yuang Zhang , Tiancai Wang , Xiangyu Zhang , Yichen Wei

Multiobject tracking (MOT) is an important task in applications including autonomous driving, ocean sciences, and aerospace surveillance. Traditional MOT methods are model-based and combine sequential Bayesian estimation with data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Shaoxiu Wei , Mingchao Liang , Florian Meyer

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims at estimating bounding boxes and identities of objects across video frames. Detection boxes serve as the basis of both 2D and 3D MOT. The inevitable changing of detection scores leads to object missing after…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yifu Zhang , Xinggang Wang , Xiaoqing Ye , Wei Zhang , Jincheng Lu , Xiao Tan , Errui Ding , Peize Sun , Jingdong Wang

3D Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) provides the trajectories of surrounding objects, assisting robots or vehicles in smarter path planning and obstacle avoidance. Existing 3D MOT methods based on the Tracking-by-Detection framework typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Xiaohong Liu , Xulong Zhao , Gang Liu , Zili Wu , Tao Wang , Lei Meng , Yuhan Wang

Multiple object tracking (MOT) is a significant task in achieving autonomous driving. Traditional works attempt to complete this task, either based on point clouds (PC) collected by LiDAR, or based on images captured from cameras. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Guangming Wang , Chensheng Peng , Jinpeng Zhang , Hesheng Wang

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is a critical problem in computer vision, essential for understanding how objects move and interact in videos. This field faces significant challenges such as occlusions and complex environmental dynamics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Luiz C. S. de Araujo , Carlos M. S. Figueiredo

We propose a method for joint detection and tracking of multiple objects in 3D point clouds, a task conventionally treated as a two-step process comprising object detection followed by data association. Our method embeds both steps into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Jyoti Kini , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah

3D multi-object tracking (MOT) has witnessed numerous novel benchmarks and approaches in recent years, especially those under the "tracking-by-detection" paradigm. Despite their progress and usefulness, an in-depth analysis of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Ziqi Pang , Zhichao Li , Naiyan Wang

We consider the challenging problem of tracking multiple objects using a distributed network of sensors. In the practical setting of nodes with limited field of views (FoVs), computing power and communication resources, we develop a novel…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Hoa Van Nguyen , Hamid Rezatofighi , Ba-Ngu Vo , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Multiple people tracking is a key problem for many applications such as surveillance, animation or car navigation, and a key input for tasks such as activity recognition. In crowded environments occlusions and false detections are common,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Laura Leal-Taixé

3D multi-object tracking aims to uniquely and consistently identify all mobile entities through time. Despite the rich spatiotemporal information available in this setting, current 3D tracking methods primarily rely on abstracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Colton Stearns , Davis Rempe , Jie Li , Rares Ambrus , Sergey Zakharov , Vitor Guizilini , Yanchao Yang , Leonidas J Guibas

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

The ever-increasing use of artificial intelligence in autonomous systems has significantly contributed to advance the research on multi-object tracking, adopted in several real-time applications (e.g., autonomous driving, surveillance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Edoardo Cittadini , Alessandro De Siena , Giorgio Buttazzo

3D multiple object tracking (MOT) plays a crucial role in autonomous driving perception. Recent end-to-end query-based trackers simultaneously detect and track objects, which have shown promising potential for the 3D MOT task. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tao Tang , Lijun Zhou , Pengkun Hao , Zihang He , Kalok Ho , Shuo Gu , Zhihui Hao , Haiyang Sun , Kun Zhan , Peng Jia , XianPeng Lang , Xiaodan Liang