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Most modern multiple object tracking (MOT) systems follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm, consisting of a detector followed by a method for associating detections into tracks. There is a long history in tracking of combining motion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Mohamed Chaabane , Peter Zhang , J. Ross Beveridge , Stephen O'Hara

Multiple object tracking (MOT) has been successfully investigated in computer vision. However, MOT for the videos captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is still challenging due to small object size, blurred object appearance, and very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Mufeng Yao , Jiaqi Wang , Jinlong Peng , Mingmin Chi , Chao Liu

In recent years, dominant Multi-object tracking (MOT) and segmentation (MOTS) methods mainly follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm. Transformer-based end-to-end (E2E) solutions bring some ideas to MOT and MOTS, but they cannot achieve a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Kaer Huang , Bingchuan Sun , Feng Chen , Tao Zhang , Jun Xie , Jian Li , Christopher Walter Twombly , Zhepeng Wang

Most existing Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) approaches follow the Tracking-by-Detection paradigm and the data association framework where objects are firstly detected and then associated. Although deep-learning based method can noticeably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Xingyu Wan , Jiakai Cao , Sanping Zhou , Jinjun Wang

3D multi-object tracking is a key module in autonomous driving applications that provides a reliable dynamic representation of the world to the planning module. In this paper, we present our on-line tracking method, which made the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Hsu-kuang Chiu , Antonio Prioletti , Jie Li , Jeannette Bohg

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision that requires continuously tracking multiple targets while maintaining consistent identities across frames. However, most existing approaches primarily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanchao Wang , Dawei Zhang , Chengzhuan Yang , Wei Liu , Minglu Li , Hua Wang , Zhonglong Zheng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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

To enable self-driving vehicles accurate detection and tracking of surrounding objects is essential. While Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors have set the benchmark for high-performance systems, the appeal of camera-only solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Nicolas Baumann , Michael Baumgartner , Edoardo Ghignone , Jonas Kühne , Tobias Fischer , Yung-Hsu Yang , Marc Pollefeys , Michele Magno

The research on multi-object tracking (MOT) is essentially to solve for the data association assignment, the core of which is to design the association cost as discriminative as possible. Generally speaking, the match ambiguities caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Xiao Zhou , Peilin Jiang , Fei Wang

Multiple object tracking has been a challenging field, mainly due to noisy detection sets and identity switch caused by occlusion and similar appearance among nearby targets. Previous works rely on appearance models built on individual or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Zheng Tang , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in videos remains challenging due to complex object motions and crowded scenes. Recent DETR-based frameworks offer end-to-end solutions but typically process detection and tracking queries jointly within a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xu Yang , Gady Agam

Persistent multi-object tracking (MOT) allows autonomous vehicles to navigate safely in highly dynamic environments. One of the well-known challenges in MOT is object occlusion when an object becomes unobservant for subsequent frames. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Mohamed Nagy , Majid Khonji , Jorge Dias , Sajid Javed

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

Multiple-object tracking and segmentation (MOTS) is a novel computer vision task that aims to jointly perform multiple object tracking (MOT) and instance segmentation. In this work, we present PointTrack++, an effective on-line framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Zhenbo Xu , Wei Zhang , Xiao Tan , Wei Yang , Xiangbo Su , Yuchen Yuan , Hongwu Zhang , Shilei Wen , Errui Ding , Liusheng Huang

In recent years, anchor-free object detection models combined with matching algorithms are used to achieve real-time muti-object tracking and also ensure high tracking accuracy. However, there are still great challenges in multi-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Huilan Luo , Zehua Zeng

Multi-sensor perception is crucial to ensure the reliability and accuracy in autonomous driving system, while multi-object tracking (MOT) improves that by tracing sequential movement of dynamic objects. Most current approaches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Wenwei Zhang , Hui Zhou , Shuyang Sun , Zhe Wang , Jianping Shi , Chen Change Loy

End-to-end multi-object tracking (MOT) methods have recently achieved remarkable progress by unifying detection and association within a single framework. Despite their strong detection performance, these methods suffer from relatively low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yuqing Shao , Yuchen Yang , Rui Yu , Weilong Li , Xu Guo , Huaicheng Yan , Wei Wang , Xiao Sun

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

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

Data association-based multiple object tracking (MOT) involves multiple separated modules processed or optimized differently, which results in complex method design and requires non-trivial tuning of parameters. In this paper, we present an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Peng Chu , Haibin Ling