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Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a critical and challenging task in computer vision, particularly in situations involving objects with similar appearances but diverse movements, as seen in team sports. Current methods, largely reliant on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Atom Scott , Ikuma Uchida , Ning Ding , Rikuhei Umemoto , Rory Bunker , Ren Kobayashi , Takeshi Koyama , Masaki Onishi , Yoshinari Kameda , Keisuke Fujii

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) is crucial to autonomous vehicle perception. End-to-end transformer-based algorithms, which detect and track objects simultaneously, show great potential for the MOT task. However, most existing methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Ce Zhang , Chengjie Zhang , Yiluan Guo , Lingji Chen , Michael Happold

The problem of multi-object tracking (MOT) consists in detecting and tracking all the objects in a video sequence while keeping a unique identifier for each object. It is a challenging and fundamental problem for robotics. In precision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Leonardo Saraceni , Ionut M. Motoi , Daniele Nardi , Thomas A. Ciarfuglia

We present a novel transformer-based architecture for global multi-object tracking. Our network takes a short sequence of frames as input and produces global trajectories for all objects. The core component is a global tracking transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Xingyi Zhou , Tianwei Yin , Vladlen Koltun , Philipp Krähenbühl

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

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision, aiming to track targets across video frames. Existing MOT methods perform well in general visual scenes, but face significant challenges and limitations when extended to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sijia Chen , Zihan Zhou , Yanqiu Yu , En Yu , Wenbing Tao

The goal of multi-object tracking (MOT) is detecting and tracking all the objects in a scene, while keeping a unique identifier for each object. In this paper, we present a new robust state-of-the-art tracker, which can combine the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Nir Aharon , Roy Orfaig , Ben-Zion Bobrovsky

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) aims to find bounding boxes and identities of targeted objects in consecutive video frames. While fully-supervised MOT methods have achieved high accuracy on existing datasets, they cannot generalize well on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Pha Nguyen , Kha Gia Quach , John Gauch , Samee U. Khan , Bhiksha Raj , Khoa Luu

Fast appearance variations and the distractions of similar objects are two of the most challenging problems in visual object tracking. Unlike many existing trackers that focus on modeling only the target, in this work, we consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Bi Li , Chengquan Zhang , Zhibin Hong , Xu Tang , Jingtuo Liu , Junyu Han , Errui Ding , Wenyu Liu

With the advancement of video analysis technology, the multi-object tracking (MOT) problem in complex scenes involving pedestrians is gaining increasing importance. This challenge primarily involves two key tasks: pedestrian detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Jiayi Chen , Chunhua Deng

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is a popular topic in computer vision. However, identity issue, i.e., an object is wrongly associated with another object of a different identity, still remains to be a challenging problem. To address it,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Weitao Feng , Zhihao Hu , Baopu Li , Weihao Gan , Wei Wu , Wanli Ouyang

Tracking specific targets, such as pedestrians and vehicles, has been the focus of recent vision-based multitarget tracking studies. However, in some real-world scenarios, unseen categories often challenge existing methods due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Zewei Wu , Longhao Wang , Cui Wang , César Teixeira , Wei Ke , Zhang Xiong

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

Learning a discriminative model that distinguishes the specified target from surrounding distractors across frames is essential for generic object tracking (GOT). Dynamic adaptation of target representation against distractors remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Shih-Fang Chen , Jun-Cheng Chen , I-Hong Jhuo , Yen-Yu Lin

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims at estimating bounding boxes and identities of objects in videos. Most methods obtain identities by associating detection boxes whose scores are higher than a threshold. The objects with low detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Yifu Zhang , Peize Sun , Yi Jiang , Dongdong Yu , Fucheng Weng , Zehuan Yuan , Ping Luo , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

A key capability of a long-term tracker is to search for targets in very large areas (typically the entire image) to handle possible target absences or tracking failures. However, currently there is a lack of such a strong baseline for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Lianghua Huang , Xin Zhao , Kaiqi Huang

Most existing multi-object tracking methods typically learn visual tracking features via maximizing dis-similarities of different instances and minimizing similarities of the same instance. While such a feature learning scheme achieves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yuhao Li , Jiale Cao , Muzammal Naseer , Yu Zhu , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

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

In this paper, we introduce a novel benchmark, dubbed VastTrack, towards facilitating the development of more general visual tracking via encompassing abundant classes and videos. VastTrack possesses several attractive properties: (1) Vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Liang Peng , Junyuan Gao , Xinran Liu , Weihong Li , Shaohua Dong , Zhipeng Zhang , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) has been notoriously difficult to evaluate. Previous metrics overemphasize the importance of either detection or association. To address this, we present a novel MOT evaluation metric, HOTA (Higher Order Tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Jonathon Luiten , Aljosa Osep , Patrick Dendorfer , Philip Torr , Andreas Geiger , Laura Leal-Taixe , Bastian Leibe