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Object motion and object appearance are commonly used information in multiple object tracking (MOT) applications, either for associating detections across frames in tracking-by-detection methods or direct track predictions for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Xiaotong Chen , Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Kuo-Chin Lien

Temporal modeling of objects is a key challenge in multiple object tracking (MOT). Existing methods track by associating detections through motion-based and appearance-based similarity heuristics. The post-processing nature of association…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Fangao Zeng , Bin Dong , Yuang Zhang , Tiancai Wang , Xiangyu Zhang , Yichen Wei

The main challenge of Multi-Object Tracking~(MOT) lies in maintaining a continuous trajectory for each target. Existing methods often learn reliable motion patterns to match the same target between adjacent frames and discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Zheng Qin , Sanping Zhou , Le Wang , Jinghai Duan , Gang Hua , Wei Tang

In this paper, we present a novel distributed expectation propagation algorithm for multiple sensors, multiple objects tracking in cluttered environments. The proposed framework enables each sensor to operate locally while collaboratively…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Qing Li , Runze Gan , James R. Hopgood , Michael E. Davies , Simon J. Godsill

In this paper we address the multi-agent collaborative object transportation problem in a partially known environment with obstacles under a specified goal condition. We propose a leader follower approach for two mobile manipulators…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Sumanta Ghosh , Subhajit Nath , Sarvesh Sortee , Lokesh Kumar , Titas Bera

In this paper, we present an algorithm which lies in the domain of task allocation for a set of static autonomous radars with rotating antennas. It allows a set of radars to allocate in a fully decentralized way a set of active tracking…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Pierre Larrenie , Cédric Buron , Frédéric Barbaresco

This paper presents a coordination algorithm for mobile autonomous robots. Relying upon distributed sensing the robots achieve rendezvous, that is, they move to a common location. Each robot is a point mass moving in a nonconvex environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Anurag Ganguli , Jorge Cortes , Francesco Bullo

Autonomous robots enjoy a wide popularity nowadays and have been applied in many applications, such as home security, entertainment, delivery, navigation and guidance. It is vital to robots to track objects accurately in these applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Mengmeng Wang , Yong Liu

This paper develops a novel COllaborative-Online-Learning (COOL)-enabled motion control framework for multi-robot systems to avoid collision amid randomly moving obstacles whose motion distributions are partially observable through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Chao Ning , Han Wang , Longyan Li , Yang Shi

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) is an important task in computer vision. MOT is still challenging due to the occlusion problem, especially in dense scenes. Following the tracking-by-detection framework, we propose the Box-Plane Matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Jinlong Peng , Yueyang Gu , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision that requires continuously tracking multiple targets while maintaining consistent identities across frames. However, most existing approaches primarily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanchao Wang , Dawei Zhang , Chengzhuan Yang , Wei Liu , Minglu Li , Hua Wang , Zhonglong Zheng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

This paper is concerned with the problem of distributed extended object tracking, which aims to collaboratively estimate the state and extension of an object by a network of nodes. In traditional tracking applications, most approaches…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Junhao Hua , Chunguang Li

The aim of the present dissertation is to address distributed tracking over a network of heterogeneous and geographically dispersed nodes (or agents) with sensing, communication and processing capabilities. Tracking is carried out in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-08-19 Claudio Fantacci

This paper presents a cooperative multi-robot multi-target tracking framework aimed at enhancing the efficiency of the heterogeneous sensor network and, consequently, improving overall target tracking accuracy. The concept of normalized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Jun Chen , Mohammed Abugurain , Philip Dames , Shinkyu Park

Multi-object tracking (MOT) has profound applications in a variety of fields, including surveillance, sports analytics, self-driving, and cooperative robotics. Despite considerable advancements, existing MOT methodologies tend to falter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Hamza Mukhtar , Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan

This paper addresses distributed multi-object tracking over a network of heterogeneous and geographically dispersed nodes with sensing, communication and processing capabilities. The main contribution is an approach to distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-10 C. Fantacci , B. -N. Vo , B. -T. Vo , G. Battistelli , L. Chisci

This paper studies the problem of having mobile robots in a multi-robot system maintain an estimate of the relative position and relative orientation of near-by robots in the environment. This problem is studied in the context of large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-12-09 Alejandro Cornejo , Radhika Nagpal

Multi-object tracking (MOT) enables mobile robots to perform well-informed motion planning and navigation by localizing surrounding objects in 3D space and time. Existing methods rely on depth sensors (e.g., LiDAR) to detect and track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Aleksandr Kim , Aljoša Ošep , Laura Leal-Taixé

We introduce the framework of cooperative simultaneous localization and tracking (CoSLAT), which provides a consistent combination of cooperative self-localization (CSL) and distributed target tracking (DTT) in sensor networks without a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-11-30 Florian Meyer , Erwin Riegler , Ondrej Hlinka , Franz Hlawatsch

It is an important task to reliably detect and track multiple moving objects for video surveillance and monitoring. However, when occlusion occurs in nonlinear motion scenarios, many existing methods often fail to continuously track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Xi Chen , Xiao Wang , Jianhua Xuan