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There exists no comprehensive metric for describing the complexity of Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) sequences. This lack of metrics decreases explainability, complicates comparison of datasets, and reduces the conversation on tracker…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Malte Pedersen , Joakim Bruslund Haurum , Patrick Dendorfer , Thomas B. Moeslund

One-stream Transformer-based trackers achieve advanced performance in visual object tracking but suffer from significant computational overhead that hinders real-time deployment. While token pruning offers a path to efficiency, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hao Wu , Xudong Wang , Jialiang Zhang , Junlong Tong , Xinghao Chen , Junyan Lin , Yunpu Ma , Xiaoyu Shen

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

In the realm of video object tracking, auxiliary modalities such as depth, thermal, or event data have emerged as valuable assets to complement the RGB trackers. In practice, most existing RGB trackers learn a single set of parameters to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zongwei Wu , Jilai Zheng , Xiangxuan Ren , Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu , Chao Ma , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

While language tasks are naturally expressed in a single, unified, modeling framework, i.e., generating sequences of tokens, this has not been the case in computer vision. As a result, there is a proliferation of distinct architectures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Ting Chen , Saurabh Saxena , Lala Li , Tsung-Yi Lin , David J. Fleet , Geoffrey Hinton

With growing real-world demands, efficient tracking has received increasing attention. However, most existing methods are limited to RGB inputs and struggle in multi-modal scenarios. Moreover, current multi-modal tracking approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Ben Kang , Jie Zhao , Xin Chen , Wanting Geng , Bin Zhang , Lu Zhang , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

The paper presents a new method, SearchTrack, for multiple object tracking and segmentation (MOTS). To address the association problem between detected objects, SearchTrack proposes object-customized search and motion-aware features. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zhong-Min Tsai , Yu-Ju Tsai , Chien-Yao Wang , Hong-Yuan Liao , Youn-Long Lin , Yung-Yu Chuang

Recent progress in multiple object tracking (MOT) has shown that a robust similarity score is key to the success of trackers. A good similarity score is expected to reflect multiple cues, e.g. appearance, location, and topology, over a long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Jiarui Xu , Yue Cao , Zheng Zhang , Han Hu

Recent research in multi-task learning reveals the benefit of solving related problems in a single neural network. 3D object detection and multi-object tracking (MOT) are two heavily intertwined problems predicting and associating an object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 JunYoung Gwak , Silvio Savarese , Jeannette Bohg

An unsupervised online object tracking method that exploits both foreground and background correlations is proposed and named UHP-SOT (Unsupervised High-Performance Single Object Tracker) in this work. UHP-SOT consists of three modules: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Zhiruo Zhou , Hongyu Fu , Suya You , Christoph C. Borel-Donohue , C. -C. Jay Kuo

The main challenge of Multi-Object Tracking~(MOT) lies in maintaining a continuous trajectory for each target. Existing methods often learn reliable motion patterns to match the same target between adjacent frames and discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Zheng Qin , Sanping Zhou , Le Wang , Jinghai Duan , Gang Hua , Wei Tang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is an essential task in the computer vision field. With the fast development of deep learning technology in recent years, MOT has achieved great improvement. However, some challenges still remain, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Gaoang Wang , Yizhou Wang , Renshu Gu , Weijie Hu , Jenq-Neng Hwang

We present single-shot multi-object tracker (SMOT), a new tracking framework that converts any single-shot detector (SSD) model into an online multiple object tracker, which emphasizes simultaneously detecting and tracking of the object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Wei Li , Yuanjun Xiong , Shuo Yang , Siqi Deng , Wei Xia

In this paper, we propose an online Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) approach which integrates the merits of single object tracking and data association methods in a unified framework to handle noisy detections and frequent interactions between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Ji Zhu , Hua Yang , Nian Liu , Minyoung Kim , Wenjun Zhang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Standardized benchmarks are crucial for the majority of computer vision applications. Although leaderboards and ranking tables should not be over-claimed, benchmarks often provide the most objective measure of performance and are therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Patrick Dendorfer , Hamid Rezatofighi , Anton Milan , Javen Shi , Daniel Cremers , Ian Reid , Stefan Roth , Konrad Schindler , Laura Leal-Taixé

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is the task that has a lot of potential for development, and there are still many problems to be solved. In the traditional tracking by detection paradigm, There has been a lot of work on feature based object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Tae-young Chung , Heansung Lee , Myeong Ah Cho , Suhwan Cho , Sangyoun Lee

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to associate target objects across video frames in order to obtain entire moving trajectories. With the advancement of deep neural networks and the increasing demand for intelligent video analysis, MOT has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Gaoang Wang , Mingli Song , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Current mainstream vision-language (VL) tracking framework consists of three parts, \ie a visual feature extractor, a language feature extractor, and a fusion model. To pursue better performance, a natural modus operandi for VL tracking is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Chunhui Zhang , Xin Sun , Yiqian Yang , Li Liu , Qiong Liu , Xi Zhou , Yanfeng Wang

The ability for an autonomous agent or robot to track and identify potentially multiple objects in a dynamic environment is essential for many applications, such as automated surveillance, traffic monitoring, human-robot interaction, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Aijun Bai

Multiple object tracking (MOT) is a crucial task in computer vision society. However, most tracking-by-detection MOT methods, with available detected bounding boxes, cannot effectively handle static, slow-moving and fast-moving camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Jiarui Cai , Yizhou Wang , Haotian Zhang , Hung-Min Hsu , Chengqian Ma , Jenq-Neng Hwang