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Benchmarking multi-object tracking and object detection model performance is an essential step in machine learning model development, as it allows researchers to evaluate model detection and tracker performance on human-generated 'test'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Kevin Barnard , Elaine Liu , Kristine Walz , Brian Schlining , Nancy Jacobsen Stout , Lonny Lundsten

Small, fast, and lightweight drones present significant challenges for traditional RGB cameras due to their limitations in capturing fast-moving objects, especially under challenging lighting conditions. Event cameras offer an ideal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Gabriele Magrini , Niccolò Marini , Federico Becattini , Lorenzo Berlincioni , Niccolò Biondi , Pietro Pala , Alberto Del Bimbo

Traffic forecasting is a fundamental task in transportation research, however the scope of current research has mainly focused on a single data modality of loop detectors. Recently, the advances in Artificial Intelligence and drone…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Weijiang Xiong , Robert Fonod , Alexandre Alahi , Nikolas Geroliminis

Tracking objects in soccer videos is extremely important to gather both player and team statistics, whether it is to estimate the total distance run, the ball possession or the team formation. Video processing can help automating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Anthony Cioppa , Silvio Giancola , Adrien Deliege , Le Kang , Xin Zhou , Zhiyu Cheng , Bernard Ghanem , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

We propose a data-driven approach to online multi-object tracking (MOT) that uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) for data association in a tracking-by-detection framework. The problem of multi-target tracking aims to assign noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Erkan Baser , Venkateshwaran Balasubramanian , Prarthana Bhattacharyya , Krzysztof Czarnecki

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

Estimating count and density maps from crowd images has a wide range of applications such as video surveillance, traffic monitoring, public safety and urban planning. In addition, techniques developed for crowd counting can be applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

Interacting with the environment, such as object detection and tracking, is a crucial ability of mobile robots. Besides high accuracy, efficiency in terms of processing effort and energy consumption are also desirable. To satisfy both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Xuesong Li , Jose Guivant

Standardized benchmarks are crucial for the majority of computer vision applications. Although leaderboards and ranking tables should not be over-claimed, benchmarks often provide the most objective measure of performance and are therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Patrick Dendorfer , Hamid Rezatofighi , Anton Milan , Javen Shi , Daniel Cremers , Ian Reid , Stefan Roth , Konrad Schindler , Laura Leal-Taixe

Crowd counting is an important yet challenging task due to the large scale and density variation. Recent investigations have shown that distilling rich relations among multi-scale features and exploiting useful information from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ao Luo , Fan Yang , Xin Li , Dong Nie , Zhicheng Jiao , Shangchen Zhou , Hong Cheng

This paper presents DriveTrack, a new benchmark and data generation framework for long-range keypoint tracking in real-world videos. DriveTrack is motivated by the observation that the accuracy of state-of-the-art trackers depends strongly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Arjun Balasingam , Joseph Chandler , Chenning Li , Zhoutong Zhang , Hari Balakrishnan

Tracking in gigapixel scenarios holds numerous potential applications in video surveillance and pedestrian analysis. Existing algorithms attempt to perform tracking in crowded scenes by utilizing multiple cameras or group relationships.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yunqi Zhao , Yuchen Guo , Zheng Cao , Kai Ni , Ruqi Huang , Lu Fang

Navigating through dense human crowds remains a significant challenge for mobile robots. A key issue is the freezing robot problem, where the robot struggles to find safe motions and becomes stuck within the crowd. To address this, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yufei Zhu , Shih-Min Yang , Martin Magnusson , Allan Wang

Crowd counting on static images is a challenging problem due to scale variations. Recently deep neural networks have been shown to be effective in this task. However, existing neural-networks-based methods often use the multi-column or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Lingke Zeng , Xiangmin Xu , Bolun Cai , Suo Qiu , Tong Zhang

Since the past few decades, human trajectory forecasting has been a field of active research owing to its numerous real-world applications: evacuation situation analysis, deployment of intelligent transport systems, traffic operations, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Parth Kothari , Sven Kreiss , Alexandre Alahi

Crowd counting in single-view images has achieved outstanding performance on existing counting datasets. However, single-view counting is not applicable to large and wide scenes (e.g., public parks, long subway platforms, or event spaces)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Qi Zhang , Antoni B. Chan

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

Using drones to track multiple individuals simultaneously in their natural environment is a powerful approach for better understanding group primate behavior. Previous studies have demonstrated that it is possible to automate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Isla Duporge , Maksim Kholiavchenko , Roi Harel , Scott Wolf , Dan Rubenstein , Meg Crofoot , Tanya Berger-Wolf , Stephen Lee , Julie Barreau , Jenna Kline , Michelle Ramirez , Charles Stewart

Object detection in high-resolution aerial images is a challenging task because of 1) the large variation in object size, and 2) non-uniform distribution of objects. A common solution is to divide the large aerial image into small (uniform)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Changlin Li , Taojiannan Yang , Sijie Zhu , Chen Chen , Shanyue Guan

Crowd counting remains a challenging task because the presence of drastic scale variation, density inconsistency, and complex background can seriously degrade the counting accuracy. To battle the ingrained issue of accuracy degradation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Mingjie Wang , Hao Cai , Xianfeng Han , Jun Zhou , Minglun Gong