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Object detection remains as one of the most notorious open problems in computer vision. Despite large strides in accuracy in recent years, modern object detectors have started to saturate on popular benchmarks raising the question of how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Ali Borji , Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh

Multi-object nonprehensile transportation in teleoperation demands simultaneous trajectory tracking and tray orientation control. Existing methods often struggle with model dependency, uncertain parameters, and multi-object adaptability. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Xinyang Fan , Zhaoyang Chen , Shu Xin , Yi Ren , Zainan Jiang , Fenglei Ni , Hong Liu

State-of-the-art Object Detection (OD) methods predominantly operate under a closed-world assumption, where test-time categories match those encountered during training. However, detecting and localizing unknown objects is crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Daniel Montoya , Aymen Bouguerra , Alexandra Gomez-Villa , Fabio Arnez

Learning to infer labels in an open world, i.e., in an environment where the target "labels" are unknown, is an important characteristic for achieving autonomy. Foundation models pre-trained on enormous amounts of data have shown remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sanjoy Kundu , Shubham Trehan , Sathyanarayanan N. Aakur

Recent work in adversarial machine learning started to focus on the visual perception in autonomous driving and studied Adversarial Examples (AEs) for object detection models. However, in such visual perception pipeline the detected objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Yunhan Jia , Yantao Lu , Junjie Shen , Qi Alfred Chen , Zhenyu Zhong , Tao Wei

Multiple object tracking (MOT) in urban traffic aims to produce the trajectories of the different road users that move across the field of view with different directions and speeds and that can have varying appearances and sizes. Occlusions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Hui-Lee Ooi , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Nicolas Saunier , David-Alexandre Beaupré

Object tracking is an important step in robotics and reautonomous driving pipelines, which has to generalize to previously unseen and complex objects. Existing high-performing methods often rely on pre-captured object views to build…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Nikolai Goncharov , James L. Gray , Donald G. Dansereau

The ability to detect and track objects in the visual world is a crucial skill for any intelligent agent, as it is a necessary precursor to any object-level reasoning process. Moreover, it is important that agents learn to track objects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Eric Crawford , Joelle Pineau

In currently available literature, no tracking-by-detection (TBD) paradigm-based tracking method has considered the localization confidence of detection boxes. In most TBD-based methods, it is considered that objects of low detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Ting Meng , Chunyun Fu , Mingguang Huang , Xiyang Wang , Jiawei He , Tao Huang , Wankai Shi

The presence of objects that are confusingly similar to the tracked target, poses a fundamental challenge in appearance-based visual tracking. Such distractor objects are easily misclassified as the target itself, leading to eventual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Christoph Mayer , Martin Danelljan , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Understanding human-object interactions is fundamental in First Person Vision (FPV). Tracking algorithms which follow the objects manipulated by the camera wearer can provide useful cues to effectively model such interactions. Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Matteo Dunnhofer , Antonino Furnari , Giovanni Maria Farinella , Christian Micheloni

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

The development of autonomous vehicles provides an opportunity to have a complete set of camera sensors capturing the environment around the car. Thus, it is important for object detection and tracking to address new challenges, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Pha Nguyen , Kha Gia Quach , Chi Nhan Duong , Ngan Le , Xuan-Bac Nguyen , Khoa Luu

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is vital to safety-critical machine learning applications and has thus been extensively studied, with a plethora of methods developed in the literature. However, the field currently lacks a unified,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jingkang Yang , Pengyun Wang , Dejian Zou , Zitang Zhou , Kunyuan Ding , Wenxuan Peng , Haoqi Wang , Guangyao Chen , Bo Li , Yiyou Sun , Xuefeng Du , Kaiyang Zhou , Wayne Zhang , Dan Hendrycks , Yixuan Li , Ziwei Liu

This paper addresses the problem of tracking moving objects of variable appearance in challenging scenes rich with features and texture. Reliable tracking is of pivotal importance in surveillance applications. It is made particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-09-26 Rhys Martin , Ognjen Arandjelović

Existing work on object detection often relies on a single form of annotation: the model is trained using either accurate yet costly bounding boxes or cheaper but less expressive image-level tags. However, real-world annotations are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Zhongzheng Ren , Zhiding Yu , Xiaodong Yang , Ming-Yu Liu , Alexander G. Schwing , Jan Kautz

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

We present a novel transformer-based architecture for global multi-object tracking. Our network takes a short sequence of frames as input and produces global trajectories for all objects. The core component is a global tracking transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Xingyi Zhou , Tianwei Yin , Vladlen Koltun , Philipp Krähenbühl

Multiple objects tracking (MOT) is a difficult task, as it usually requires special hardware and higher computation complexity. In this work, we present a new framework of MOT by using of equilibrium optimizer (EO) algorithm and reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Djemai Charef-Khodja , Toumi Abida

Visual object tracking is an important task in computer vision, which has many real-world applications, e.g., video surveillance, visual navigation. Visual object tracking also has many challenges, e.g., object occlusion and deformation. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Ruize Han , Wei Feng , Qing Guo , Qinghua Hu