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With the recent advances in the object detection research field, tracking-by-detection has become the leading paradigm adopted by multi-object tracking algorithms. By extracting different features from detected objects, those algorithms can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Michel Meneses , Leonardo Matos , Bruno Prado , André de Carvalho , Hendrik Macedo

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is primarily dominated by two paradigms: tracking-by-detection (TBD) and tracking-by-query (TBQ). While TBD offers modular efficiency, its fragmented association pipeline often limits robustness in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shukun Jia , Shiyu Hu , Yichao Cao , Feng Yang , Xin Lu , Xiaobo Lu

The tracking-by-detection paradigm today has become the dominant method for multi-object tracking and works by detecting objects in each frame and then performing data association across frames. However, its sequential frame-wise matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Sanghyun Woo , Kwanyong Park , Seoung Wug Oh , In So Kweon , Joon-Young Lee

Conventional multi-object tracking (MOT) systems are predominantly designed for pedestrian tracking and often exhibit limited generalization to other object categories. This paper presents a generalized tracking framework capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Hamidreza Hashempoor , Yu Dong Hwang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is an important and practical task related to both surveillance systems and moving camera applications, such as autonomous driving and robotic vision. However, due to unreliable detection, occlusion and fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Gaoang Wang , Yizhou Wang , Haotian Zhang , Renshu Gu , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Online multi-object tracking is a fundamental problem in time-critical video analysis applications. A major challenge in the popular tracking-by-detection framework is how to associate unreliable detection results with existing tracks. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Long Chen , Haizhou Ai , Zijie Zhuang , Chong Shang

In recent years, the joint detection-and-tracking paradigm has been a very popular way of tackling the multi-object tracking (MOT) task. Many of the methods following this paradigm use the object center keypoint for detection. However, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Jacob Meilleur , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau

Multi-object tracking (MOT) endeavors to precisely estimate the positions and identities of multiple objects over time. The prevailing approach, tracking-by-detection (TbD), first detects objects and then links detections, resulting in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Lorenzo Vaquero , Yihong Xu , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Victor M. Brea , Manuel Mucientes

State-of-the-art multi-object tracking~(MOT) methods follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm, where object trajectories are obtained by associating per-frame outputs of object detectors. In crowded scenes, however, detectors often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Weihong Ren , Xinchao Wang , Jiandong Tian , Yandong Tang , Antoni B. Chan

3D multi-object tracking (MOT) has witnessed numerous novel benchmarks and approaches in recent years, especially those under the "tracking-by-detection" paradigm. Despite their progress and usefulness, an in-depth analysis of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Ziqi Pang , Zhichao Li , Naiyan Wang

The majority of existing solutions to the Multi-Target Tracking (MTT) problem do not combine cues in a coherent end-to-end fashion over a long period of time. However, we present an online method that encodes long-term temporal dependencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Amir Sadeghian , Alexandre Alahi , Silvio Savarese

The recent trend in 2D multiple object tracking (MOT) is jointly solving detection and tracking, where object detection and appearance feature (or motion) are learned simultaneously. Despite competitive performance, in crowded scenes, joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Weihong Ren , Denglu Wu , Hui Cao , Xi'ai Chen , Zhi Han , Honghai Liu

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a core task in computer vision that involves detecting objects in video frames and associating them across time. The rise of deep learning has significantly advanced MOT, particularly within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Momir Adžemović

Joint Detection and Embedding (JDE) trackers have demonstrated excellent performance in Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) tasks by incorporating the extraction of appearance features as auxiliary tasks through embedding Re-Identification task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Yunfei Zhang , Chao Liang , Jin Gao , Zhipeng Zhang , Weiming Hu , Stephen Maybank , Xue Zhou , Liang Li

Self-supervised multi-object trackers have tremendous potential as they enable learning from raw domain-specific data. However, their re-identification accuracy still falls short compared to their supervised counterparts. We hypothesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Christopher Lang , Alexander Braun , Lars Schillingmann , Abhinav Valada

Autonomous driving holds great promise in addressing traffic safety concerns by leveraging artificial intelligence and sensor technology. Multi-Object Tracking plays a critical role in ensuring safer and more efficient navigation through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Lei Cheng , Arindam Sengupta , Siyang Cao

Multiple-object tracking (MOT) is a challenging task that requires simultaneous reasoning about location, appearance, and identity of the objects in the scene over time. Our aim in this paper is to move beyond tracking-by-detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Bruno Korbar , Andrew Zisserman

Deep learning has recently started being applied to visual tracking of generic objects in video streams. For the purposes of robotics applications, it is very important for a target tracker to recover its track if it is lost due to heavy or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Pranoy Panda , Martin Barczyk

Modern multiple object tracking (MOT) systems usually follow the \emph{tracking-by-detection} paradigm. It has 1) a detection model for target localization and 2) an appearance embedding model for data association. Having the two models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Zhongdao Wang , Liang Zheng , Yixuan Liu , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang

Multi-object tracking is an important ability for an autonomous vehicle to safely navigate a traffic scene. Current state-of-the-art follows the tracking-by-detection paradigm where existing tracks are associated with detected objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Hsu-kuang Chiu , Jie Li , Rares Ambrus , Jeannette Bohg