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Multi-modal object tracking (MMOT) is an emerging field that combines data from various modalities, \eg vision (RGB), depth, thermal infrared, event, language and audio, to estimate the state of an arbitrary object in a video sequence. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Chunhui Zhang , Li Liu , Hao Wen , Xi Zhou , Yanfeng Wang

Estimating the target extent poses a fundamental challenge in visual object tracking. Typically, trackers are box-centric and fully rely on a bounding box to define the target in the scene. In practice, objects often have complex shapes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Matthieu Paul , Martin Danelljan , Christoph Mayer , Luc Van Gool

Object detection has long been a topic of high interest in computer vision literature. Motivated by the fact that annotating data for the multi-object tracking (MOT) problem is immensely expensive, recent studies have turned their attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Son Tran , Cong Tran , Anh Tran , Cuong Pham

Recent works have shown that combining object detection and tracking tasks, in the case of video data, results in higher performance for both tasks, but they require a high frame-rate as a strict requirement for performance. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Bharti Munjal , Abdul Rafey Aftab , Sikandar Amin , Meltem D. Brandlmaier , Federico Tombari , Fabio Galasso

Transformer-based multi-object tracking (MOT) methods have captured the attention of many researchers in recent years. However, these models often suffer from slow inference speeds due to their structure or other issues. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Pan Liao , Feng Yang , Di Wu , Jinwen Yu , Wenhui Zhao , Dingwen Zhang

In this paper, we focus on the multi-object tracking (MOT) problem of automatic driving and robot navigation. Most existing MOT methods track multiple objects using a singular RGB camera, which are prone to camera field-of-view and suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yuhang He , Wentao Yu , Jie Han , Xing Wei , Xiaopeng Hong , Yihong Gong

Open-vocabulary multi-object tracking (OVMOT) represents a critical new challenge involving the detection and tracking of diverse object categories in videos, encompassing both seen categories (base classes) and unseen categories (novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zekun Qian , Ruize Han , Junhui Hou , Linqi Song , Wei Feng

The ever-increasing use of artificial intelligence in autonomous systems has significantly contributed to advance the research on multi-object tracking, adopted in several real-time applications (e.g., autonomous driving, surveillance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Edoardo Cittadini , Alessandro De Siena , Giorgio Buttazzo

The task of 3D single object tracking (SOT) with LiDAR point clouds is crucial for various applications, such as autonomous driving and robotics. However, existing approaches have primarily relied on appearance matching or motion modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zhipeng Luo , Gongjie Zhang , Changqing Zhou , Zhonghua Wu , Qingyi Tao , Lewei Lu , Shijian Lu

Existing referring understanding tasks tend to involve the detection of a single text-referred object. In this paper, we propose a new and general referring understanding task, termed referring multi-object tracking (RMOT). Its core idea is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Dongming Wu , Wencheng Han , Tiancai Wang , Xingping Dong , Xiangyu Zhang , Jianbing Shen

Online multi-object tracking (MOT) plays a pivotal role in autonomous systems. The state-of-the-art approaches usually employ a tracking-by-detection method, and data association plays a critical role. This paper proposes a learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Zhenrong Zhang , Jianan Liu , Yuxuan Xia , Tao Huang , Qing-Long Han , Hongbin Liu

Benchmarking multi-object tracking and object detection model performance is an essential step in machine learning model development, as it allows researchers to evaluate model detection and tracker performance on human-generated 'test'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Kevin Barnard , Elaine Liu , Kristine Walz , Brian Schlining , Nancy Jacobsen Stout , Lonny Lundsten

How to combine the complementary capabilities of an ensemble of different algorithms has been of central interest in visual object tracking. A significant progress on such a problem has been achieved, but considering short-term tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Matteo Dunnhofer , Christian Micheloni

We introduce here a large tracking database that offers an unprecedentedly wide coverage of common moving objects in the wild, called GOT-10k. Specifically, GOT-10k is built upon the backbone of WordNet structure and it populates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Lianghua Huang , Xin Zhao , Kaiqi Huang

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

Point tracking is a fundamental problem in computer vision with numerous applications in AR and robotics. A common failure mode in long-term point tracking occurs when the predicted point leaves the object it belongs to and lands on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Bikram Boote , Anh Thai , Wenqi Jia , Ozgur Kara , Stefan Stojanov , James M. Rehg , Sangmin Lee

Multiple object tracking (MOT), a key task in image recognition, presents a persistent challenge in balancing processing speed and tracking accuracy. This study introduces a novel approach that leverages quantum annealing (QA) to expedite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yasuyuki Ihara

Unsupervised object-centric learning methods allow the partitioning of scenes into entities without additional localization information and are excellent candidates for reducing the annotation burden of multiple-object tracking (MOT)…

In recent years, numerous effective multi-object tracking (MOT) methods are developed because of the wide range of applications. Existing performance evaluations of MOT methods usually separate the object tracking step from the object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Longyin Wen , Dawei Du , Zhaowei Cai , Zhen Lei , Ming-Ching Chang , Honggang Qi , Jongwoo Lim , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Siwei Lyu

Object segmentation and object tracking are fundamental research area in the computer vision community. These two topics are diffcult to handle some common challenges, such as occlusion, deformation, motion blur, and scale variation. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Rui Yao , Guosheng Lin , Shixiong Xia , Jiaqi Zhao , Yong Zhou