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State-of-the-art multi-object tracking~(MOT) methods follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm, where object trajectories are obtained by associating per-frame outputs of object detectors. In crowded scenes, however, detectors often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Weihong Ren , Xinchao Wang , Jiandong Tian , Yandong Tang , Antoni B. Chan

Visual object tracking, which is primarily based on visible light image sequences, encounters numerous challenges in complicated scenarios, such as low light conditions, high dynamic ranges, and background clutter. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Hongze Sun , Rui Liu , Wuque Cai , Jun Wang , Yue Wang , Huajin Tang , Yan Cui , Dezhong Yao , Daqing Guo

Inspired by Segment Anything 2, which generalizes segmentation from images to videos, we propose SAM2MOT--a novel segmentation-driven paradigm for multi-object tracking that breaks away from the conventional detection-association framework.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Junjie Jiang , Zelin Wang , Manqi Zhao , Yin Li , DongSheng Jiang

The most common paradigm for vision-based multi-object tracking is tracking-by-detection, due to the availability of reliable detectors for several important object categories such as cars and pedestrians. However, future mobile systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Aljoša Ošep , Wolfgang Mehner , Paul Voigtlaender , Bastian Leibe

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) focuses on modeling the relationship of detected objects among consecutive frames and merge them into different trajectories. MOT remains a challenging task as noisy and confusing detection results often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Tao Wang , Kean Chen , Weiyao Lin , John See , Zenghui Zhang , Qian Xu , Xia Jia

3D Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is an important part of the unmanned vehicle perception module. Most methods optimize object detection and data association independently. These methods make the network structure complicated and limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Yueling Shen , Guangming Wang , Hesheng Wang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) methods often rely on Intersection-over-Union (IoU) for association. However, this becomes unreliable when objects are similar or occluded. Also, computing IoU for segmentation masks is computationally expensive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Milad Khanchi , Maria Amer , Charalambos Poullis

Multi-object tracking (MOT) with camera-LiDAR fusion demands accurate results of object detection, affinity computation and data association in real time. This paper presents an efficient multi-modal MOT framework with online joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Kemiao Huang , Qi Hao

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

3D multi-object tracking (MOT) is vital for many applications including autonomous driving vehicles and service robots. With the commonly used tracking-by-detection paradigm, 3D MOT has made important progress in recent years. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Xuesong Chen , Shaoshuai Shi , Chao Zhang , Benjin Zhu , Qiang Wang , Ka Chun Cheung , Simon See , Hongsheng Li

Multi-object tracking (MOT) has important applications in monitoring, logistics, and other fields. This paper develops a real-time multi-object tracking and prediction system in rugged environments. A 3D object detection algorithm based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Shixing Huang , Zhihao Wang , Junyuan Ouyang , Haoyao Chen

The growing proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) poses major challenges for reliable airspace surveillance, as drones are typically small, have low radar cross-sections, and often move slowly in cluttered environments. These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Anders Malthe Westerkam , Jakob Möderl , Erik Leitinger , Troels Pedersen

Multiple object tracking (MOT) in urban traffic aims to produce the trajectories of the different road users that move across the field of view with different directions and speeds and that can have varying appearances and sizes. Occlusions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Hui-Lee Ooi , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Nicolas Saunier , David-Alexandre Beaupré

Multi-object tracking is an important ability for an autonomous vehicle to safely navigate a traffic scene. Current state-of-the-art follows the tracking-by-detection paradigm where existing tracks are associated with detected objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Hsu-kuang Chiu , Jie Li , Rares Ambrus , Jeannette Bohg

Multi-object tracking (MOT) endeavors to precisely estimate the positions and identities of multiple objects over time. The prevailing approach, tracking-by-detection (TbD), first detects objects and then links detections, resulting in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Lorenzo Vaquero , Yihong Xu , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Victor M. Brea , Manuel Mucientes

Multiple object tracking (MOT) is an important technology in the field of computer vision, which is widely used in automatic driving, intelligent monitoring, behavior recognition and other directions. Among the current popular MOT methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Feng Yang , Xingle Zhang , Bo Liu

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is critical in numerous real-world applications, including surveillance, autonomous driving, and robotics. Accurately predicting object motion is fundamental to MOT, but current methods struggle with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Nhat-Tan Do , Le-Huy Tu , Nhi Ngoc-Yen Nguyen , Dieu-Phuong Nguyen , Trong-Hop Do

Many multi-object tracking (MOT) methods follow the framework of "tracking by detection", which associates the target objects-of-interest based on the detection results. However, due to the separate models for detection and association, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 JiaXu Wan , Hong Zhang , Jin Zhang , Yuan Ding , Yifan Yang , Yan Li , Xuliang Li

Significant progress has been achieved in multi-object tracking (MOT) through the evolution of detection and re-identification (ReID) techniques. Despite these advancements, accurately tracking objects in scenarios with homogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Changcheng Xiao , Qiong Cao , Yujie Zhong , Long Lan , Xiang Zhang , Zhigang Luo , Dacheng Tao

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a vital component of intelligent video analytics applications such as surveillance and autonomous driving. The time and storage complexity required to execute deep learning models for visual object tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Keivan Nalaie , Rong Zheng