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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

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

In this paper, we present a new method for detecting road users in an urban environment which leads to an improvement in multiple object tracking. Our method takes as an input a foreground image and improves the object detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 David-Alexandre Beaupré , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Nicolas Saunier

The objective of this paper is self-supervised representation learning, with the goal of solving semi-supervised video object segmentation (a.k.a. dense tracking). We make the following contributions: (i) we propose to improve the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Fangrui Zhu , Li Zhang , Yanwei Fu , Guodong Guo , Weidi Xie

Tracking has traditionally been the art of following interest points through space and time. This changed with the rise of powerful deep networks. Nowadays, tracking is dominated by pipelines that perform object detection followed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Xingyi Zhou , Vladlen Koltun , Philipp Krähenbühl

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a challenging vision task that aims to detect individual objects within a single frame and associate them across multiple frames. Recent MOT approaches can be categorized into two-stage tracking-by-detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Run Luo , Zikai Song , Lintao Ma , Jinlin Wei , Wei Yang , Min Yang

3D Multi-object tracking (MOT) ensures consistency during continuous dynamic detection, conducive to subsequent motion planning and navigation tasks in autonomous driving. However, camera-based methods suffer in the case of occlusions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Li Wang , Xinyu Zhang , Wenyuan Qin , Xiaoyu Li , Lei Yang , Zhiwei Li , Lei Zhu , Hong Wang , Jun Li , Huaping Liu

Point tracking aims to localize corresponding points across video frames, serving as a fundamental task for 4D reconstruction, robotics, and video editing. Existing methods commonly rely on shallow convolutional backbones such as ResNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Soowon Son , Honggyu An , Chaehyun Kim , Hyunah Ko , Jisu Nam , Dahyun Chung , Siyoon Jin , Jung Yi , Jaewon Min , Junhwa Hur , Seungryong Kim

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) has rapidly progressed in recent years. Existing works tend to design a single tracking algorithm to perform both detection and association. Though ensemble learning has been exploited in many tasks, i.e,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Yunhao Du , Zihang Liu , Fei Su

Current optical flow and point-tracking methods rely heavily on synthetic datasets. Event cameras are novel vision sensors with advantages in challenging visual conditions, but state-of-the-art frame-based methods cannot be easily adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Friedhelm Hamann , Ziyun Wang , Ioannis Asmanis , Kenneth Chaney , Guillermo Gallego , Kostas Daniilidis

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

We introduce ITTO, a challenging new benchmark suite for evaluating and diagnosing the capabilities and limitations of point tracking methods. Our videos are sourced from existing datasets and egocentric real-world recordings, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ilona Demler , Saumya Chauhan , Georgia Gkioxari

Drone-based crowd tracking faces difficulties in accurately identifying and monitoring objects from an aerial perspective, largely due to their small size and close proximity to each other, which complicates both localization and tracking.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yi Lei , Huilin Zhu , Jingling Yuan , Guangli Xiang , Xian Zhong , Shengfeng He

The task of 3D single object tracking (SOT) with LiDAR point clouds is crucial for various applications, such as autonomous driving and robotics. However, existing approaches have primarily relied on appearance matching or motion modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zhipeng Luo , Gongjie Zhang , Changqing Zhou , Zhonghua Wu , Qingyi Tao , Lewei Lu , Shijian Lu

Optical flow is a useful input for various applications, including 3D reconstruction, pose estimation, tracking, and structure-from-motion. Despite its utility, the field of dense long-term tracking, especially over wide baselines, has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Tomáš Jelínek , Jonáš Šerých , Jiří Matas

3D single object tracking (SOT) is a crucial task in fields of mobile robotics and autonomous driving. Traditional motion-based approaches achieve target tracking by estimating the relative movement of target between two consecutive frames.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Shuo Li , Yubo Cui , Zhiheng Li , Zheng Fang

We present a method to combine markerless motion capture and dense pose feature estimation into a single framework. We demonstrate that dense pose information can help for multiview/single-view motion capture, and multiview motion capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Xiu Li , Yebin Liu , Hanbyul Joo , Qionghai Dai , Yaser Sheikh

Despite recent advances, estimating optical flow remains a challenging problem in the presence of illumination change, large occlusions or fast movement. In this paper, we propose a novel optical flow estimation framework which can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Inchul Choi , Arunava Banerjee

Due to better video quality and higher frame rate, the performance of multiple object tracking issues has been greatly improved in recent years. However, in real application scenarios, camera motion and noisy per frame detection results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Weiqiang Li , Jiatong Mu , Guizhong Liu

The existing approaches for salient motion segmentation are unable to explicitly learn geometric cues and often give false detections on prominent static objects. We exploit multiview geometric constraints to avoid such shortcomings. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Muhammad Faisal , Ijaz Akhter , Mohsen Ali , Richard Hartley