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Robust feature encoding constitutes the foundation of UAV tracking by enabling the nuanced perception of target appearance and motion, thereby playing a pivotal role in ensuring reliable tracking. However, existing feature encoding methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yiheng Wang , Changhong Fu , Liangliang Yao , Haobo Zuo , Zijie Zhang

Transformer-based visual object tracking has been utilized extensively. However, the Transformer structure is lack of enough inductive bias. In addition, only focusing on encoding the global feature does harm to modeling local details,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Changhong Fu , Weiyu Peng , Sihang Li , Junjie Ye , Ziang Cao

Many current visual object tracking benchmarks such as OTB100, NfS, UAV123, LaSOT, and GOT-10K, predominantly contain day-time scenarios while the challenges posed by the night-time has been less investigated. It is primarily because of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yu Liu , Arif Mahmood , Muhammad Haris Khan

Accurate object tracking in low-light environments is crucial, particularly in surveillance and ethology applications. However, achieving this is significantly challenging due to the poor quality of captured sequences. Factors such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Anqi Yi , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a popular backbone for visual tracking. However, complete ViT architectures are too cumbersome to deploy for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking which extremely emphasizes efficiency. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chaocan Xue , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Yaozong Zheng , Ning Li , Yuanliang Xue , Shuxiang Song

Nighttime UAV tracking under low-illuminated scenarios has achieved great progress by domain adaptation (DA). However, previous DA training-based works are deficient in narrowing the discrepancy of temporal contexts for UAV trackers. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Changhong Fu , Yiheng Wang , Liangliang Yao , Guangze Zheng , Haobo Zuo , Jia Pan

State-of-the-art (SOTA) visual object tracking methods have significantly enhanced the autonomy of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, in low-light conditions, the presence of irregular real noise from the environments severely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yucheng Wang , Changhong Fu , Kunhan Lu , Liangliang Yao , Haobo Zuo

This paper presents a new dataset and general tracker enhancement method for Underwater Visual Object Tracking (UVOT). Despite its significance, underwater tracking has remained unexplored due to data inaccessibility. It poses distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Basit Alawode , Fayaz Ali Dharejo , Mehnaz Ummar , Yuhang Guo , Arif Mahmood , Naoufel Werghi , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Jiri Matas , Sajid Javed

Visual object tracking is essential to intelligent robots. Most existing approaches have ignored the online latency that can cause severe performance degradation during real-world processing. Especially for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Bowen Li , Ziyuan Huang , Junjie Ye , Yiming Li , Sebastian Scherer , Hang Zhao , Changhong Fu

Transformer-based models have improved visual tracking, but most still cannot run in real time on resource-limited devices, especially for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking. To achieve a better balance between performance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 You Wu , Yongxin Li , Mengyuan Liu , Xucheng Wang , Xiangyang Yang , Hengzhou Ye , Dan Zeng , Qijun Zhao , Shuiwang Li

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

Visual object tracking (VOT) plays a pivotal role in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. Addressing the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency, especially under challenging conditions like unpredictable occlusion, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yang Zhou , Derui Ding , Ran Sun , Ying Sun , Haohua Zhang

UAV tracking faces significant challenges in real-world scenarios, such as small-size targets and occlusions, which limit the performance of RGB-based trackers. Multispectral images (MSI), which capture additional spectral information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Haolin Qin , Tingfa Xu , Tianhao Li , Zhenxiang Chen , Tao Feng , Jianan Li

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery presents significant challenges. Issues such as densely packed small objects, scale variations, and occlusion are commonplace. This paper introduces RT-DETR++, which enhances the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yuan Shufang

The design of more complex and powerful neural network models has significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in visual object tracking. These advances can be attributed to deeper networks, or the introduction of new building blocks, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Philippe Blatter , Menelaos Kanakis , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool

Maintaining high efficiency and high precision are two fundamental challenges in UAV tracking due to the constraints of computing resources, battery capacity, and UAV maximum load. Discriminative correlation filters (DCF)-based trackers can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Dan Zeng , Mingliang Zou , Xucheng Wang , Shuiwang Li

Transformer-based trackers have achieved promising success and become the dominant tracking paradigm due to their accuracy and efficiency. Despite the substantial progress, most of the existing approaches tackle object tracking as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Siyuan Yao , Yang Guo , Yanyang Yan , Wenqi Ren , Xiaochun Cao

We propose an object tracking method, SFTrack++, that smoothly learns to preserve the tracked object consistency over space and time dimensions by taking a spectral clustering approach over the graph of pixels from the video, using a fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Elena Burceanu

In recent years, the field of visual tracking has made significant progress with the application of large-scale training datasets. These datasets have supported the development of sophisticated algorithms, enhancing the accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Pengzhi Zhong , Xiaoyu Guo , Defeng Huang , Xiaojun Peng , Yian Li , Qijun Zhao , Shuiwang Li

Multi-object tracking under low-light environments is prevalent in real life. Recent years have seen rapid development in the field of multi-object tracking. However, due to the lack of datasets and the high cost of annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zijing Zhao , Jianlong Yu , Lin Zhang , Shunli Zhang