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As multi-object tracking (MOT) tasks continue to evolve toward more general and multi-modal scenarios, the rigid and task-specific architectures of existing MOT methods increasingly hinder their applicability across diverse tasks and limit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Lianjie Jia , Yuhan Wu , Binghao Ran , Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu

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

Current multi-object tracking and segmentation (MOTS) methods follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm and adopt convolutions for feature extraction. However, as affected by the inherent receptive field, convolution based feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Zhenbo Xu , Wei Zhang , Xiao Tan , Wei Yang , Huan Huang , Shilei Wen , Errui Ding , Liusheng Huang

Most modern multi-object tracking (MOT) systems follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm. It first localizes the objects of interest, then extracting their individual appearance features to make data association. The individual features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Tianyi Liang , Long Lan , Zhigang Luo

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

Modern multi-object tracking (MOT) system usually involves separated modules, such as motion model for location and appearance model for data association. However, the compatible problems within both motion and appearance models are always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Piao Huang , Shoudong Han , Jun Zhao , Donghaisheng Liu , Hongwei Wang , En Yu , Alex ChiChung Kot

Multi-object tracking (MOT) has traditionally focused on estimating trajectories of all objects in a video, without selectively reasoning about user-specified targets under semantic instructions. In this work, we introduce a query-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Tajamul Ashraf , Tavaheed Tariq , Sonia Yadav , Abrar Ul Riyaz , Wasif Tak , Moloud Abdar , Janibul Bashir

Single-object tracking (SOT) on edge devices is a critical computer vision task, requiring accurate and continuous target localization across video frames under occlusion, distractor interference, and fast motion. However, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Syed Muhammad Raza , Syed Murtaza Hussain Abidi , Khawar Islam , Muhammad Ibrahim , Ajmal Saeed Mian

Multi-object tracking (MOT) has been dominated by the use of track by detection approaches due to the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on detection in the last decade. As the datasets and bench-marking sites are published,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Fatih Emre Simsek , Cevahir Cigla , Koray Kayabol

The main challenge of Multi-Object Tracking~(MOT) lies in maintaining a continuous trajectory for each target. Existing methods often learn reliable motion patterns to match the same target between adjacent frames and discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Zheng Qin , Sanping Zhou , Le Wang , Jinghai Duan , Gang Hua , Wei Tang

Recent online Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) methods have achieved desirable tracking performance. However, the tracking speed of most existing methods is rather slow. Inspired from the fact that the adjacent frames are highly relevant and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Qiankun Liu , Bin Liu , Yue Wu , Weihai Li , Nenghai Yu

Visual Object Tracking (VOT) aims to estimate the positions of target objects in a video sequence, which is an important vision task with various real-world applications. Depending on whether the initial states of target objects are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Junke Wang , Zuxuan Wu , Dongdong Chen , Chong Luo , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Yu-Gang Jiang

In the field of autonomous driving or robotics, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and multi-object tracking (MOT) are two fundamental problems and are generally applied separately. Solutions to SLAM and MOT usually rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Susu Fang , Hao Li

Data association across frames is at the core of Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) task. This problem is usually solved by a traditional graph-based optimization or directly learned via deep learning. Despite their popularity, we find some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Jiawei He , Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

3D single object tracking with LiDAR points is an important task in the computer vision field. Previous methods usually adopt the matching-based or motion-centric paradigms to estimate the current target status. However, the former is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zhiheng Li , Yu Lin , Yubo Cui , Shuo Li , Zheng Fang

Multiple object detection and pose estimation are vital computer vision tasks. The latter relates to the former as a downstream problem in applications such as robotics and autonomous driving. However, due to the high complexity of both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Congliang Li , Shijie Sun , Xiangyu Song , Huansheng Song , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Saeed Mian

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is a popular topic in computer vision. However, identity issue, i.e., an object is wrongly associated with another object of a different identity, still remains to be a challenging problem. To address it,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Weitao Feng , Zhihao Hu , Baopu Li , Weihao Gan , Wei Wu , Wanli Ouyang

Tracking by detection, the dominant approach for online multi-object tracking, alternates between localization and association steps. As a result, it strongly depends on the quality of instantaneous observations, often failing when objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Pavel Tokmakov , Jie Li , Wolfram Burgard , Adrien Gaidon

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

Data association is a crucial component for any multiple object tracking (MOT) method that follows the tracking-by-detection paradigm. To generate complete trajectories such methods employ a data association process to establish assignments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Athena Psalta , Vasileios Tsironis , Konstantinos Karantzalos