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Open-Set Object Detection (OSOD) is crucial for autonomous driving, where perception systems must recognize and localize both known and previously unseen objects in complex, dynamic environments. While recent approaches deliver promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuchen Zhang , Yao Lu , Johannes Betz

Online multi-object tracking (MOT) is extremely important for high-level spatial reasoning and path planning for autonomous and highly-automated vehicles. In this paper, we present a modular framework for tracking multiple objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Akshay Rangesh , Mohan M. Trivedi

Machine learning has achieved remarkable success in many applications. However, existing studies are largely based on the closed-world assumption, which assumes that the environment is stationary, and the model is fixed once deployed. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Fei Zhu , Shijie Ma , Zhen Cheng , Xu-Yao Zhang , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Cheng-Lin Liu

This paper addresses the problem of online tracking and classification of multiple objects in an image sequence. Our proposed solution is to first track all objects in the scene without relying on object-specific prior knowledge, which in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Sebastien C. Wong , Victor Stamatescu , Adam Gatt , David Kearney , Ivan Lee , Mark D. McDonnell

In many applications, tracking of multiple objects is crucial for a perception of the current environment. Most of the present multi-object tracking algorithms assume that objects move independently regarding other dynamic objects as well…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Andreas Danzer , Fabian Gies , Klaus Dietmayer

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) is a core capability in modern computer vision, essential to autonomous driving, surveillance, sports analytics, robotics, and biomedical imaging. Persistent identity assignment across frames remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Mk Bashar , Samia Islam , Kashifa Kawaakib Hussain , Md. Bakhtiar Hasan , A. B. M. Ashikur Rahman , Md. Hasanul Kabir

Autonomous exploration and multi-object tracking by a team of agents have traditionally been considered as two separate, yet related, problems which are usually solved in two phases: an exploration phase then a tracking phase. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Alexander Ivanov , Mark Campbell

Open world object detection aims at detecting objects that are absent in the object classes of the training data as unknown objects without explicit supervision. Furthermore, the exact classes of the unknown objects must be identified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Na Dong , Yongqiang Zhang , Mingli Ding , Gim Hee Lee

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) has gained increasing attention due to its academic and commercial potential. Although different approaches have been proposed to tackle this problem, it still remains challenging due to factors like abrupt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Wenhan Luo , Junliang Xing , Anton Milan , Xiaoqin Zhang , Wei Liu , Tae-Kyun Kim

Object detection is a computer vision task that has become an integral part of many consumer applications today such as surveillance and security systems, mobile text recognition, and diagnosing diseases from MRI/CT scans. Object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Abhishek Balasubramaniam , Sudeep Pasricha

Open World Object Detection(OWOD) addresses realistic scenarios where unseen object classes emerge, enabling detectors trained on known classes to detect unknown objects and incrementally incorporate the knowledge they provide. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Sunoh Lee , Minsik Jeon , Jihong Min , Junwon Seo

Occlusion is a long-standing problem that causes many modern tracking methods to be erroneous. In this paper, we address the occlusion problem by exploiting the current and future possible locations of the target object from its past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yuan Liu , Ruoteng Li , Robby T. Tan , Yu Cheng , Xiubao Sui

Open-world object detection (OWOD) is a challenging problem that combines object detection with incremental learning and open-set learning. Compared to standard object detection, the OWOD setting is task to: 1) detect objects seen during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Jinan Yu , Liyan Ma , Zhenglin Li , Yan Peng , Shaorong Xie

Accurately detecting and tracking multi-objects is important for safety-critical applications such as autonomous navigation. However, it remains challenging to provide guarantees on the performance of state-of-the-art techniques based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Shuo Li , Sangdon Park , Xiayan Ji , Insup Lee , Osbert Bastani

Classic supervised learning makes the closed-world assumption, meaning that classes seen in testing must have been seen in training. However, in the dynamic world, new or unseen class examples may appear constantly. A model working in such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Hu Xu , Bing Liu , Lei Shu , P. Yu

How would you fairly evaluate two multi-object tracking algorithms (i.e. trackers), each one employing a different object detector? Detectors keep improving, thus trackers can make less effort to estimate object states over time. Is it then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Juan C. SanMiguel , Jorge Muñoz , Fabio Poiesi

With the recent advances in the object detection research field, tracking-by-detection has become the leading paradigm adopted by multi-object tracking algorithms. By extracting different features from detected objects, those algorithms can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Michel Meneses , Leonardo Matos , Bruno Prado , André de Carvalho , Hendrik Macedo

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

Many open-world applications require the detection of novel objects, yet state-of-the-art object detection and instance segmentation networks do not excel at this task. The key issue lies in their assumption that regions without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Kuniaki Saito , Ping Hu , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

Effective tracking of surrounding traffic participants allows for an accurate state estimation as a necessary ingredient for prediction of future behavior and therefore adequate planning of the ego vehicle trajectory. One approach for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Patrick Palmer , Martin Krüger , Richard Altendorfer , Torsten Bertram