English
Related papers

Related papers: Unified Single-Stage Transformer Network for Effic…

200 papers

Object tracking based on the fusion of visible and thermal im-ages, known as RGB-T tracking, has gained increasing atten-tion from researchers in recent years. How to achieve a more comprehensive fusion of information from the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Yang Luo , Xiqing Guo , Hui Feng , Lei Ao

RGB-Thermal (RGBT) tracking aims to achieve robust object localization across diverse environmental conditions by fusing visible and thermal infrared modalities. However, existing RGBT trackers rely solely on initial-frame visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Hao Li , Yuhao Wang , Wenning Hao , Pingping Zhang , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

To reduce the reliance on large-scale annotations, self-supervised RGB-T tracking approaches have garnered significant attention. However, the omission of the object region by erroneous pseudo-label or the introduction of background noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Shenglan Li , Rui Yao , Yong Zhou , Hancheng Zhu , Kunyang Sun , Bing Liu , Zhiwen Shao , Jiaqi Zhao

Multi-modal tracking gains attention due to its ability to be more accurate and robust in complex scenarios compared to traditional RGB-based tracking. Its key lies in how to fuse multi-modal data and reduce the gap between modalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jinyu Yang , Zhe Li , Feng Zheng , Aleš Leonardis , Jingkuan Song

We address the problem of multi-modal object tracking in video and explore various options of fusing the complementary information conveyed by the visible (RGB) and thermal infrared (TIR) modalities including pixel-level, feature-level and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Zhangyong Tang , Tianyang Xu , Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Xuefeng Zhu , Josef Kittler

The current popular two-stream, two-stage tracking framework extracts the template and the search region features separately and then performs relation modeling, thus the extracted features lack the awareness of the target and have limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Botao Ye , Hong Chang , Bingpeng Ma , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Developing robust multi-modal feature representations is crucial for enhancing object tracking performance. In pursuit of this objective, a novel X Modality Assisting Network (X-Net) is introduced, which explores the impact of the fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zhaisheng Ding , Haiyan Li , Ruichao Hou , Yanyu Liu , Shidong Xie

With the advent of Transformer-based one-stream trackers that possess strong capability in inter-frame relation modeling, recent research has increasingly focused on how to introduce spatio-temporal context. However, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Wenrui Cai , Zhenyi Lu , Yuzhe Li , Yongchao Feng , Jinqing Zhang , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Due to the limited availability of paired multi-modal data, multi-modal trackers are typically built by adopting pre-trained RGB models with parameter-efficient fine-tuning modules. However, these fine-tuning methods overlook advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 He Wang , Tianyang Xu , Zhangyong Tang , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

In this study, we propose a novel RGB-T tracking framework by jointly modeling both appearance and motion cues. First, to obtain a robust appearance model, we develop a novel late fusion method to infer the fusion weight maps of both RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Pengyu Zhang , Jie Zhao , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Xiaoyun Yang

Visual object tracking with RGB and thermal infrared (TIR) spectra available, shorted in RGBT tracking, is a novel and challenging research topic which draws increasing attention nowadays. In this paper, we propose an RGBT tracker which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zhangyong Tang , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu

RGB and thermal source data suffer from both shared and specific challenges, and how to explore and exploit them plays a critical role to represent the target appearance in RGBT tracking. In this paper, we propose a novel challenge-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Chenglong Li , Lei Liu , Andong Lu , Qing Ji , Jin Tang

RGBT tracking has attracted increasing attention since RGB and thermal infrared data have strong complementary advantages, which could make trackers all-day and all-weather work. However, how to effectively represent RGBT data for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Andong Lu , Chenglong Li , Yuqing Yan , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

Single-modality tracking (RGB-only) struggles under low illumination, weather, and occlusion. Multimodal tracking addresses this by combining complementary cues. While Vision Transformer-based trackers achieve strong accuracy, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Mahdi Falaki , Maria A. Amer

Tracking multiple tiny objects is highly challenging due to their weak appearance and limited features. Existing multi-object tracking algorithms generally focus on single-modality scenes, and overlook the complementary characteristics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Qingyu Xu , Longguang Wang , Weidong Sheng , Yingqian Wang , Chao Xiao , Chao Ma , Wei An

Effectively modeling and utilizing spatiotemporal features from RGB and other modalities (\eg, depth, thermal, and event data, denoted as X) is the core of RGB-X tracker design. Existing methods often employ two parallel branches to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 X. Feng , D. Zhang , S. Hu , X. Li , M. Wu , J. Zhang , X. Chen , K. Huang

With the development of depth sensors in recent years, RGBD object tracking has received significant attention. Compared with the traditional RGB object tracking, the addition of the depth modality can effectively solve the target and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Shang Gao , Jinyu Yang , Zhe Li , Feng Zheng , Aleš Leonardis , Jingkuan Song

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 high performance of RGB-D based road segmentation methods contrasts with their rare application in commercial autonomous driving, which is owing to two reasons: 1) the prior methods cannot achieve high inference speed and high accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Yicong Chang , Feng Xue , Fei Sheng , Wenteng Liang , Anlong Ming

Single object tracking aims to localize target object with specific reference modalities (bounding box, natural language or both) in a sequence of specific video modalities (RGB, RGB+Depth, RGB+Thermal or RGB+Event.). Different reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yinchao Ma , Yuyang Tang , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Xu Zhou , Feng Wu