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Object detection using aerial drone imagery has received a great deal of attention in recent years. While visible light images are adequate for detecting objects in most scenarios, thermal cameras can extend the capabilities of object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Lizhi Yang , Ruhang Ma , Avideh Zakhor

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims at estimating bounding boxes and identities of objects in videos. Most methods can be roughly classified as tracking-by-detection and joint-detection-association paradigms. Although the latter has elicited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Run Luo , JinLin Wei , Qiao Lin

The task of RGBT tracking aims to take the complementary advantages from visible spectrum and thermal infrared data to achieve robust visual tracking, and receives more and more attention in recent years. Existing works focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Chenglong Li , Andong Lu , Aihua Zheng , Zhengzheng Tu , Jin Tang

Multi-Object Tracking is one of the most important technologies in maritime computer vision. Our solution tries to explore Multi-Object Tracking in maritime Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) usage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Kaer Huang , Weitu Chong

Visual object tracking in real-world scenarios presents numerous challenges including occlusion, interference from similar objects and complex backgrounds-all of which limit the effectiveness of RGB-based trackers. Multispectral imagery,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Tao Feng , Tingfa Xu , Haolin Qin , Tianhao Li , Shuaihao Han , Xuyang Zou , Zhan Lv , Jianan Li

Visual object tracking with the visible (RGB) and thermal infrared (TIR) electromagnetic waves, shorted in RGBT tracking, recently draws increasing attention in the tracking community. Considering the rapid development of deep learning, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zhangyong Tang , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu

The real world is dynamic, yet most image fusion methods process static frames independently, ignoring temporal correlations in videos and leading to flickering and temporal inconsistency. To address this, we propose Unified Video Fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zixiang Zhao , Haowen Bai , Bingxin Ke , Yukun Cui , Lilun Deng , Yulun Zhang , Kai Zhang , Konrad Schindler

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are transforming infrastructure inspections in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facility Management (AEC+FM) domain. By synthesizing insights from over 150 studies, this review paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Amir Farzin Nikkhah , Dong Chen , Bradford Campbell , Somayeh Asadi , Arsalan Heydarian

The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has created urgent demand for precise UAV monitoring. Existing RGB-based systems rely on spatial cues that degrade at small scales, particularly with high inter-type similarity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yihang Luo , Jun Chen , Chao Xiao , Yingqian Wang , Zhaoxu Li , Qiang Ling , Xu He , Nuo Chen , Gaowei Guo , Hongge Li , Miao Li , Longguang Wang , Yulan Guo , Li Liu , Wei An , Zhijie Chen

One of the key factors behind the recent success in visual tracking is the availability of dedicated benchmarks. While being greatly benefiting to the tracking research, existing benchmarks do not pose the same difficulty as before with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Mubashir Noman , Wafa Al Ghallabi , Daniya Najiha , Christoph Mayer , Akshay Dudhane , Martin Danelljan , Hisham Cholakkal , Salman Khan , Luc Van Gool , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Transformer-based visual trackers have demonstrated significant progress owing to their superior modeling capabilities. However, existing trackers are hampered by low speed, limiting their applicability on devices with limited computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Ben Kang , Xin Chen , Dong Wang , Houwen Peng , Huchuan Lu

Visual Grounding (VG) aims to localize specific objects in an image according to natural language expressions, serving as a fundamental task in vision-language understanding. However, existing VG benchmarks are mostly derived from datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Tianyi Zhao , Jiawen Xi , Linhui Xiao , Junnan Li , Xue Yang , Maoxun Yuan , Xingxing Wei

Multi-object tracking from RGB-D video sequences is a challenging problem due to the combination of changing viewpoints, motion, and occlusions over time. We observe that having the complete geometry of objects aids in their tracking, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Norman Müller , Yu-Shiang Wong , Niloy J. Mitra , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a popular backbone for visual tracking. However, complete ViT architectures are too cumbersome to deploy for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking which extremely emphasizes efficiency. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chaocan Xue , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Yaozong Zheng , Ning Li , Yuanliang Xue , Shuxiang Song

Object tracking is divided into single-object tracking (SOT) and multi-object tracking (MOT). MOT aims to maintain the identities of multiple objects across a series of continuous video sequences. In recent years, MOT has made rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Yukuan Zhang , Yunhua Jia , Housheng Xie , Mengzhen Li , Limin Zhao , Yang Yang , Shan Zhao

RGB-Thermal (RGB-T) crowd counting is a challenging task, which uses thermal images as complementary information to RGB images to deal with the decreased performance of unimodal RGB-based methods in scenes with low-illumination or similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Pengyu Chen , Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Qi Wang

This paper explores the process of designing an automatic multi-sensor drone detection system. Besides the common video and audio sensors, the system also includes a thermal infrared camera, which is shown to be a feasible solution to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Fredrik Svanstrom , Cristofer Englund , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez

With the increasing prevalence of drones in various industries, the navigation and tracking of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in challenging environments, particularly GNSS-denied areas, have become crucial concerns. To address this need,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Iacopo Catalano , Xianjia Yu , Jorge Pena Queralta

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) aims to detect and associate all targets of given classes across frames. Current dominant solutions, e.g. ByteTrack and StrongSORT++, follow the hybrid pipeline, which first accomplish most of the associations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yunhao Du , Zhicheng Zhao , Fei Su

Tracking a crowd in 3D using multiple RGB cameras is a challenging task. Most previous multi-camera tracking algorithms are designed for offline setting and have high computational complexity. Robust real-time multi-camera 3D tracking is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Quanzeng You , Hao Jiang