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Tracking multiple tiny objects is highly challenging due to their weak appearance and limited features. Existing multi-object tracking algorithms generally focus on single-modality scenes, and overlook the complementary characteristics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Qingyu Xu , Longguang Wang , Weidong Sheng , Yingqian Wang , Chao Xiao , Chao Ma , Wei An

As an important area in computer vision, object tracking has formed two separate communities that respectively study Single Object Tracking (SOT) and Multiple Object Tracking (MOT). However, current methods in one tracking scenario are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Fan Ma , Mike Zheng Shou , Linchao Zhu , Haoqi Fan , Yilei Xu , Yi Yang , Zhicheng Yan

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

This paper introduces MCTrack, a new 3D multi-object tracking method that achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance across KITTI, nuScenes, and Waymo datasets. Addressing the gap in existing tracking paradigms, which often perform well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xiyang Wang , Shouzheng Qi , Jieyou Zhao , Hangning Zhou , Siyu Zhang , Guoan Wang , Kai Tu , Songlin Guo , Jianbo Zhao , Jian Li , Mu Yang

Progress in Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) has been historically limited by the size of the available datasets. We present an efficient framework to annotate trajectories and use it to produce a MOT dataset of unprecedented size. In our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Santiago Manen , Michael Gygli , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Visual object tracking, which is primarily based on visible light image sequences, encounters numerous challenges in complicated scenarios, such as low light conditions, high dynamic ranges, and background clutter. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Hongze Sun , Rui Liu , Wuque Cai , Jun Wang , Yue Wang , Huajin Tang , Yan Cui , Dezhong Yao , Daqing Guo

Decoder-only methods, such as GPT, have demonstrated superior performance in many areas compared to traditional encoder-decoder structure transformer methods. Over the years, end-to-end methods based on the traditional transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Liao Pan , Yang Feng , Zhao Wenhui , Yua Jinwen , Zhang Dingwen

A key capability of a long-term tracker is to search for targets in very large areas (typically the entire image) to handle possible target absences or tracking failures. However, currently there is a lack of such a strong baseline for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Lianghua Huang , Xin Zhao , Kaiqi Huang

Previous works have attempted to improve tracking efficiency through lightweight architecture design or knowledge distillation from teacher models to compact student trackers. However, these solutions often sacrifice accuracy for speed to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Lingyi Hong , Jinglun Li , Xinyu Zhou , Shilin Yan , Pinxue Guo , Kaixun Jiang , Zhaoyu Chen , Shuyong Gao , Runze Li , Xingdong Sheng , Wei Zhang , Hong Lu , Wenqiang Zhang

The recent trend in multiple object tracking (MOT) is heading towards leveraging deep learning to boost the tracking performance. In this paper, we propose a novel solution named TransSTAM, which leverages Transformer to effectively model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Peng Dai , Yiqiang Feng , Renliang Weng , Changshui Zhang

We propose a light-weight and highly efficient Joint Detection and Tracking pipeline for the task of Multi-Object Tracking using a fully-transformer architecture. It is a modified version of TransTrack, which overcomes the computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Siddharth Sagar Nijhawan , Leo Hoshikawa , Atsushi Irie , Masakazu Yoshimura , Junji Otsuka , Takeshi Ohashi

Multiple object tracking is to give each object an id in the video. The difficulty is how to match the predicted objects and detected objects in same frames. Matching features include appearance features, location features, etc. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Jie Zhang

In the classical tracking-by-detection (TBD) paradigm, detection and tracking are separately and sequentially conducted, and data association must be properly performed to achieve satisfactory tracking performance. In this paper, a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Xiyang Wang , Chunyun Fu , Jiawei He , Mingguang Huang , Ting Meng , Siyu Zhang , Hangning Zhou , Ziyao Xu , Chi Zhang

Accurate and robust tracking of surrounding road participants plays an important role in autonomous driving. However, there is usually no prior knowledge of the number of tracking targets due to object emergence, object disappearance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Jiachen Li , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) is crucial to autonomous vehicle perception. End-to-end transformer-based algorithms, which detect and track objects simultaneously, show great potential for the MOT task. However, most existing methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Ce Zhang , Chengjie Zhang , Yiluan Guo , Lingji Chen , Michael Happold

Multi-object tracking (MOT) requires detecting and associating objects through frames. Unlike tracking via detected bounding boxes or tracking objects as points, we propose tracking objects as pixel-wise distributions. We instantiate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Zelin Zhao , Ze Wu , Yueqing Zhuang , Boxun Li , Jiaya Jia

Tracking a time-varying indefinite number of objects in a video sequence over time remains a challenge despite recent advances in the field. Most existing approaches are not able to properly handle multi-object tracking challenges such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Tianyu Zhu , Markus Hiller , Mahsa Ehsanpour , Rongkai Ma , Tom Drummond , Ian Reid , Hamid Rezatofighi

Accurate tracking of transparent objects, such as glasses, plays a critical role in many robotic tasks such as robot-assisted living. Due to the adaptive and often reflective texture of such objects, traditional tracking algorithms that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Kalyan Garigapati , Erik Blasch , Jie Wei , Haibin Ling

We present a new method that views object detection as a direct set prediction problem. Our approach streamlines the detection pipeline, effectively removing the need for many hand-designed components like a non-maximum suppression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Nicolas Carion , Francisco Massa , Gabriel Synnaeve , Nicolas Usunier , Alexander Kirillov , Sergey Zagoruyko

Object tracking becomes critical especially when similar objects are present in the same area. Recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) approaches are proposed based on taking a matching network with a heavy structure to distinguish the target from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Faraz Lotfi , Hamid D. Taghirad