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Temporal modeling of objects is a key challenge in multiple object tracking (MOT). Existing methods track by associating detections through motion-based and appearance-based similarity heuristics. The post-processing nature of association…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Fangao Zeng , Bin Dong , Yuang Zhang , Tiancai Wang , Xiangyu Zhang , Yichen Wei

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

A typical pipeline for multi-object tracking (MOT) is to use a detector for object localization, and following re-identification (re-ID) for object association. This pipeline is partially motivated by recent progress in both object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Peize Sun , Jinkun Cao , Yi Jiang , Zehuan Yuan , Song Bai , Kris Kitani , Ping Luo

Compared with real-time multi-object tracking (MOT), offline multi-object tracking (OMOT) has the advantages to perform 2D-3D detection fusion, erroneous link correction, and full track optimization but has to deal with the challenges from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kemiao Huang , Yinqi Chen , Meiying Zhang , Qi Hao

Current popular online multi-object tracking (MOT) solutions apply single object trackers (SOTs) to capture object motions, while often requiring an extra affinity network to associate objects, especially for the occluded ones. This brings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Junbo Yin , Wenguan Wang , Qinghao Meng , Ruigang Yang , Jianbing Shen

Inspired by the complementarity between conventional frame-based and bio-inspired event-based cameras, we propose a multi-modal based approach to fuse visual cues from the frame- and event-domain to enhance the single object tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jiqing Zhang , Xin Yang , Yingkai Fu , Xiaopeng Wei , Baocai Yin , Bo Dong

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) is a core capability in modern computer vision, essential to autonomous driving, surveillance, sports analytics, robotics, and biomedical imaging. Persistent identity assignment across frames remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Mk Bashar , Samia Islam , Kashifa Kawaakib Hussain , Md. Bakhtiar Hasan , A. B. M. Ashikur Rahman , Md. Hasanul Kabir

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

Moving objects have special importance for Autonomous Driving tasks. Detecting moving objects can be posed as Moving Object Segmentation, by segmenting the object pixels, or Moving Object Detection, by generating a bounding box for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Eslam Mohamed , Ahmed El-Sallab

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) plays a crucial role in autonomous driving systems, as it lays the foundations for advanced perception and precise path planning modules. Nonetheless, single agent based MOT lacks in sensing surroundings due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Maria Damanaki , Nikos Piperigkos , Alexandros Gkillas , Aris S. Lalos

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

This paper investigates how to realize better and more efficient embedding learning to tackle the semi-supervised video object segmentation under challenging multi-object scenarios. The state-of-the-art methods learn to decode features with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Zongxin Yang , Yunchao Wei , Yi Yang

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) has been a long-standing challenge in video understanding. A natural and intuitive approach is to split this task into two parts: object detection and association. Most mainstream methods employ meticulously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ruopeng Gao , Ji Qi , Limin Wang

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

This paper presents a novel multi-modal Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) algorithm for self-driving cars that combines camera and LiDAR data. Camera frames are processed with a state-of-the-art 3D object detector, whereas classical clustering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Riccardo Pieroni , Simone Specchia , Matteo Corno , Sergio Matteo Savaresi

3D fluorescence microscopy of living organisms has increasingly become an essential and powerful tool in biomedical research and diagnosis. An exploding amount of imaging data has been collected, whereas efficient and effective…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Yang Jiao , Mo Weng , Mei Yang

In this paper we present a robust tracker to solve the multiple object tracking (MOT) problem, under the framework of tracking-by-detection. As the first contribution, we innovatively combine single object tracking (SOT) algorithms with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Qizheng He , Jianan Wu , Gang Yu , Chi Zhang

In this work, we present an end-to-end framework to settle data association in online Multiple-Object Tracking (MOT). Given detection responses, we formulate the frame-by-frame data association as Maximum Weighted Bipartite Matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Xiaolong Jiang , Peizhao Li , Yanjing Li , Xiantong Zhen

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

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