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Nowadays, infrared target tracking has been a critical technology in the field of computer vision and has many applications, such as motion analysis, pedestrian surveillance, intelligent detection, and so forth. Unfortunately, due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Wei-Jie Yan , Yun-Kai Xu , Qian Chen , Xiao-Fang Kong , Guo-Hua Gu , A-Jun Shao , Min-Jie Wan

Multi-Object Tracking in thermal images is essential for surveillance systems, particularly in challenging environments where RGB cameras struggle due to low visibility or poor lighting conditions. Thermal sensors enhance recognition tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Duong Nguyen-Ngoc Tran , Long Hoang Pham , Chi Dai Tran , Quoc Pham-Nam Ho , Huy-Hung Nguyen , Jae Wook Jeon

The detection and tracking of small targets in passive optical remote sensing (PORS) has broad applications. However, most of the previously proposed methods seldom utilize the abundant temporal features formed by target motion, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Weihua Gao , Wenlong Niu , Wenlong Lu , Pengcheng Wang , Zhaoyuan Qi , Xiaodong Peng , Zhen Yang

Existing methods for instance-level 6D pose estimation typically rely on neural networks that either directly regress the pose in $\mathrm{SE}(3)$ or estimate it indirectly via local feature matching. The former struggle with object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Amir Hamza , Davide Boscaini , Weihang Li , Benjamin Busam , Fabio Poiesi

Visual Object Tracking (VOT) can be seen as an extended task of Few-Shot Learning (FSL). While the concept of FSL is not new in tracking and has been previously applied by prior works, most of them are tailored to fit specific types of FSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Jinghao Zhou , Bo Li , Peng Wang , Peixia Li , Weihao Gan , Wei Wu , Junjie Yan , Wanli Ouyang

3D scene flow estimation aims to estimate point-wise motions between two consecutive frames of point clouds. Superpoints, i.e., points with similar geometric features, are usually employed to capture similar motions of local regions in 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Yaqi Shen , Le Hui , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

We propose a new approach called LiDAR-Flow to robustly estimate a dense scene flow by fusing a sparse LiDAR with stereo images. We take the advantage of the high accuracy of LiDAR to resolve the lack of information in some regions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Qing Rao , Didier Stricker

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in computer vision remains a significant challenge, requiring precise localization and continuous tracking of multiple objects in video sequences. The emergence of data sets that emphasize robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Thuc Nguyen-Quang , Minh-Triet Tran

We propose a novel method for continuous-time feature tracking in event cameras. To this end, we track features by aligning events along an estimated trajectory in space-time such that the projection on the image plane results in maximally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Jason Chui , Simon Klenk , Daniel Cremers

Weakly supervised learning can help local feature methods to overcome the obstacle of acquiring a large-scale dataset with densely labeled correspondences. However, since weak supervision cannot distinguish the losses caused by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Kunhong Li , Longguang Wang , Li Liu , Qing Ran , Kai Xu , Yulan Guo

Video frame interpolation (VFI) that leverages the bio-inspired event cameras as guidance has recently shown better performance and memory efficiency than the frame-based methods, thanks to the event cameras' advantages, such as high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Haoyue Liu , Jinghan Xu , Yi Chang , Hanyu Zhou , Haozhi Zhao , Lin Wang , Luxin Yan

Scene flow estimation is an extremely important task in computer vision to support the perception of dynamic changes in the scene. For robust scene flow, learning-based approaches have recently achieved impressive results using either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Rajai Alhimdiat , Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Didier Stricker , Wesam Ashour

Detecting obstacles in railway scenarios is both crucial and challenging due to the wide range of obstacle categories and varying ambient conditions such as weather and light. Given the impossibility of encompassing all obstacle categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Qiushi Guo

3D reconstruction is a fundamental issue in many applications and the feature point matching problem is a key step while reconstructing target objects. Conventional algorithms can only find a small number of feature points from two images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Zhihao Fang , He Ma , Xuemin Zhu , Xutao Guo , Ruixin Zhou

Feature point detection and description is the backbone for various computer vision applications, such as Structure-from-Motion, visual SLAM, and visual place recognition. While learning-based methods have surpassed traditional handcrafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Ali Youssef , Francisco Vasconcelos

We propose Flow Mismatching, an unsupervised anomaly detection method that deliberately avoids reconstruction-based paradigms. Instead, we treat flow matching as geometric dynamics and leverage a key insight: anomalies occur at places where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Shengzhe Chen , Mehrdad Moradi , Kamran Paynabar , Hao Yan

Most of Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) approaches compute individual target features for two subtasks: estimating target-wise motions and conducting pair-wise Re-Identification (Re-ID). Because of the indefinite number of targets among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Jimuyang Zhang , Sanping Zhou , Xin Chang , Fangbin Wan , Jinjun Wang , Yang Wu , Dong Huang

We present a real-time gaze tracking system that directly acquires task-relevant latent features using a fully passive optical encoder. Instead of forming and processing full-resolution images, our approach leverages a microlens array with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yidan Zheng , Matheus Souza , Kaizhang Kang , Qiang Fu , Hadi Amata , Wolfgang Heidrich

This paper presents a visual-inertial odometry (VIO) method using long-tracked features. Long-tracked features can constrain more visual frames, reducing localization drift. However, they may also lead to accumulated matching errors and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xiaohong Huang , Cui Yang , Miaowen Wen

Underwater imaging is fundamentally challenging due to wavelength-dependent light attenuation, strong scattering from suspended particles, turbidity-induced blur, and non-uniform illumination. These effects impair standard cameras and make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Nick Truong , Pritam P. Karmokar , William J. Beksi