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Developing a robust and effective obstacle detection and tracking system for Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) at marine environments is a challenging task. Research efforts have been made in this area during the past years by GRAAL lab at the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yara AlaaEldin , Enrico Simetti , Francesca Odone

Visual Object Tracking (VOT) aims to estimate the positions of target objects in a video sequence, which is an important vision task with various real-world applications. Depending on whether the initial states of target objects are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Junke Wang , Zuxuan Wu , Dongdong Chen , Chong Luo , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Yu-Gang Jiang

As an important area in computer vision, object tracking has formed two separate communities that respectively study Single Object Tracking (SOT) and Multiple Object Tracking (MOT). However, current methods in one tracking scenario are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Fan Ma , Mike Zheng Shou , Linchao Zhu , Haoqi Fan , Yilei Xu , Yi Yang , Zhicheng Yan

With the advancement of maritime unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and deep learning technologies, the application of UAV-based object detection has become increasingly significant in the fields of maritime industry and ocean engineering.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Chenjie Zhao , Ryan Wen Liu , Jingxiang Qu , Ruobin Gao

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in computer vision has made significant advancements, yet tracking small fish in underwater environments presents unique challenges due to complex 3D motions and data noise. Traditional single-view MOT models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Chaim Chai Elchik , Fatemeh Karimi Nejadasl , Seyed Sahand Mohammadi Ziabari , Ali Mohammed Mansoor Alsahag

Underwater observation systems typically integrate optical cameras and imaging sonar systems. When underwater visibility is insufficient, only sonar systems can provide stable data, which necessitates exploration of the underwater acoustic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yunfeng Li , Bo Wang , Jiahao Wan , Xueyi Wu , Ye Li

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking is critical for applications like surveillance, search-and-rescue, and autonomous navigation. However, the high-speed movement of UAVs and targets introduces unique challenges, including real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 You Wu , Xucheng Wang , Dan Zeng , Hengzhou Ye , Xiaolan Xie , Qijun Zhao , Shuiwang Li

The motion planning and tracking control techniques of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) are fundamentally significant for efficient and robust UUV navigation, which is crucial for underwater rescue, facility maintenance, marine resource…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Danjie Zhu , Tao Yan , Simon X. Yang

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

As a key research direction in the field of multi-object tracking (MOT), UAV-based multi-object tracking has significant application value in the analysis and understanding of urban intelligent transportation systems. However, in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wenguang Tao , Xiaotian Wang , Tian Yan , Jie Yan , Guodong Li , Kun Bai

Autonomously controlling the position of Remotely Operated underwater Vehicles (ROVs) is of crucial importance for a wide range of underwater engineering applications, such as in the inspection and maintenance of underwater industrial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ali Safa , Waqas Aman , Ali Al-Zawqari , Saif Al-Kuwari

Multi-ship tracking (MST) as a core technology has been proven to be applied to situational awareness at sea and the development of a navigational system for autonomous ships. Despite impressive tracking outcomes achieved by multi-object…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Hongyu Zhao , Gongming Wei , Yang Xiao , Xianglei Xing

This paper introduces MCTrack, a new 3D multi-object tracking method that achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance across KITTI, nuScenes, and Waymo datasets. Addressing the gap in existing tracking paradigms, which often perform well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xiyang Wang , Shouzheng Qi , Jieyou Zhao , Hangning Zhou , Siyu Zhang , Guoan Wang , Kai Tu , Songlin Guo , Jianbo Zhao , Jian Li , Mu Yang

Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) and boats are increasingly important in maritime operations, yet their deployment is limited due to costly sensors and complexity. LiDAR, radar, and depth cameras are either costly, yield sparse point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Benjamin Kiefer , Yitong Quan , Andreas Zell

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

The aim of in-trawl catch monitoring for use in fishing operations is to detect, track and classify fish targets in real-time from video footage. Information gathered could be used to release unwanted bycatch in real-time. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Cheng-Yen Yang , Alan Yu Shyang Tan , Melanie J. Underwood , Charlotte Bodie , Zhongyu Jiang , Steve George , Karl Warr , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Emma Jones

UAV-ground visual tracking (UGVT) aims to simultaneously track the same object from both the UAV and the ground view. However, existing two-stream methods suffer from isolated feature extraction and rely heavily on implicit appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Boyue Xu , Ruichao Hou , Tongwei Ren , Gangshan Wu

Small-sized unmanned surface vehicles (USV) are coastal water devices with a broad range of applications such as environmental control and surveillance. A crucial capability for autonomous operation is obstacle detection for timely reaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Borja Bovcon , Jon Muhovič , Duško Vranac , Dean Mozetič , Janez Perš , Matej Kristan

We present a robust multi-robot convoying approach that relies on visual detection of the leading agent, thus enabling target following in unstructured 3-D environments. Our method is based on the idea of tracking-by-detection, which…

Visual perception is an important component for autonomous navigation of unmanned surface vessels (USV), particularly for the tasks related to autonomous inspection and tracking. These tasks involve vision-based navigation techniques to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Muhayyuddin Ahmed , Ahsan Baidar Bakht , Taimur Hassan , Waseem Akram , Ahmed Humais , Lakmal Seneviratne , Shaoming He , Defu Lin , Irfan Hussain