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Vision-Language MOT is a crucial tracking problem and has drawn increasing attention recently. It aims to track objects based on human language commands, replacing the traditional use of templates or pre-set information from training sets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yunhao Li , Xiaoqiong Liu , Luke Liu , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang

Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) aims to achieve precise object detection and tracking through natural language instructions, representing a fundamental capability for intelligent robotic systems. However, current RMOT research…

Multi-object Tracking (MOT) generally can be split into two sub-tasks, i.e., detection and association. Many previous methods follow the tracking by detection paradigm, which first obtain detections at each frame and then associate them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Mingfei Chen , Yue Liao , Si Liu , Fei Wang , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Multiple-object tracking (MOT) is a challenging task that requires simultaneous reasoning about location, appearance, and identity of the objects in the scene over time. Our aim in this paper is to move beyond tracking-by-detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Bruno Korbar , Andrew Zisserman

One of the recent trends in vision problems is to use natural language captions to describe the objects of interest. This approach can overcome some limitations of traditional methods that rely on bounding boxes or category annotations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Pha Nguyen , Kha Gia Quach , Kris Kitani , Khoa Luu

This paper proposes a large-scale multi-modal dataset for referring motion expression video segmentation, focusing on segmenting and tracking target objects in videos based on language description of objects' motions. Existing referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-13 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Kaining Ying , Xudong Jiang , Chen Change Loy , Yu-Gang Jiang

This paper extends the popular task of multi-object tracking to multi-object tracking and segmentation (MOTS). Towards this goal, we create dense pixel-level annotations for two existing tracking datasets using a semi-automatic annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Paul Voigtlaender , Michael Krause , Aljosa Osep , Jonathon Luiten , Berin Balachandar Gnana Sekar , Andreas Geiger , Bastian Leibe

The advancement of computer vision has pushed visual analysis tasks from still images to the video domain. In recent years, video instance segmentation, which aims to track and segment multiple objects in video frames, has drawn much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yiming Cui , Cheng Han , Dongfang Liu

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

Domestic service robots offer a solution to the increasing demand for daily care and support. A human-in-the-loop approach that combines automation and operator intervention is considered to be a realistic approach to their use in society.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Kanta Kaneda , Shunya Nagashima , Ryosuke Korekata , Motonari Kambara , Komei Sugiura

Multimodal referring segmentation aims to segment target objects in visual scenes, such as images, videos, and 3D scenes, based on referring expressions in text or audio format. This task plays a crucial role in practical applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Henghui Ding , Song Tang , Shuting He , Chang Liu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

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

The referring video object segmentation task (RVOS) involves segmentation of a text-referred object instance in the frames of a given video. Due to the complex nature of this multimodal task, which combines text reasoning, video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Adam Botach , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Chaim Baskin

Advances in perception modeling have significantly improved the performance of object tracking. However, the current methods for specifying the target object in the initial frame are either by 1) using a box or mask template, or by 2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Jiawen Zhu , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Jun-Yan He , Chenyang Li , Bin Luo , Huchuan Lu , Yifeng Geng , Xuansong Xie

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) requires models to localize objects in images based on natural language descriptions. Research on the area remains predominantly English-centric, despite increasing global deployment demands. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Francisco Nogueira , Alexandre Bernardino , Bruno Martins

Referring video object segmentation aims to segment the object referred by a given language expression. Existing works typically require compressed video bitstream to be decoded to RGB frames before being segmented, which increases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Weidong Chen , Dexiang Hong , Yuankai Qi , Zhenjun Han , Shuhui Wang , Laiyun Qing , Qingming Huang , Guorong Li

We study the understanding of embodied reference: One agent uses both language and gesture to refer to an object to another agent in a shared physical environment. Of note, this new visual task requires understanding multimodal cues with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Yixin Chen , Qing Li , Deqian Kong , Yik Lun Kei , Song-Chun Zhu , Tao Gao , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Cross-view Referring Multi-Object Tracking (CRMOT) aims to track multiple objects specified by natural language across multiple camera views, with globally consistent identities. Despite recent progress, existing methods rely heavily on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jiawei Ge , Xintian Zhang , Jiuxin Cao , Bo Liu , Fabian Deuser , Chang Liu , Gong Wenkang , Siyou Li , Juexi Shao , Wenqing Wu , Chen Feng , Ioannis Patras

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) has witnessed remarkable advances in recent years. However, existing studies dominantly request prior knowledge of the tracking target, and hence may not generalize well to unseen categories. In contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Hexin Bai , Wensheng Cheng , Peng Chu , Juehuan Liu , Kai Zhang , Haibin Ling

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to identify, track and segment the objects in a video based on language descriptions, which has received great attention in recent years. However, existing datasets remain focus on short video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Tianming Liang , Haichao Jiang , Yuting Yang , Chaolei Tan , Shuai Li , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu