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The extraction of a clean background image by removing foreground occlusion holds immense practical significance, but it also presents several challenges. Presently, the majority of de-occlusion research focuses on addressing this issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Jiyuan Zhang , Shiyan Chen , Yajing Zheng , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Accurate data association is crucial in reducing confusion, such as ID switches and assignment errors, in multi-object tracking (MOT). However, existing advanced methods often overlook the diversity among trajectories and the ambiguity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Cheng Huang , Shoudong Han , Mengyu He , Wenbo Zheng , Yuhao Wei

Multi-person articulated pose tracking in unconstrained videos is an important while challenging problem. In this paper, going along the road of top-down approaches, we propose a decent and efficient pose tracker based on pose flows. First,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Yuliang Xiu , Jiefeng Li , Haoyu Wang , Yinghong Fang , Cewu Lu

Multiple object tracking (MOT) is a task in computer vision that aims to detect the position of various objects in videos and to associate them to a unique identity. We propose an approach based on Constraint Programming (CP) whose goal is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Rémi Nahon , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Gilles Pesant

Dense self-supervised learning has shown great promise for learning pixel- and patch-level representations, but extending it to videos remains challenging due to the complexity of motion dynamics. Existing approaches struggle as they rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Mohammadreza Salehi , Shashanka Venkataramanan , Ioana Simion , Efstratios Gavves , Cees G. M. Snoek , Yuki M Asano

This paper extends the popular task of multi-object tracking to multi-object tracking and segmentation (MOTS). Towards this goal, we create dense pixel-level annotations for two existing tracking datasets using a semi-automatic annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Paul Voigtlaender , Michael Krause , Aljosa Osep , Jonathon Luiten , Berin Balachandar Gnana Sekar , Andreas Geiger , Bastian Leibe

In [1], we proposed a graph-based formulation that links and clusters person hypotheses over time by solving a minimum cost subgraph multicut problem. In this paper, we modify and extend [1] in three ways: 1) We introduce a novel local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Siyu Tang , Bjoern Andres , Mykhaylo Andriluka , Bernt Schiele

Multiple object tracking (MOT) involves identifying multiple targets and assigning them corresponding IDs within a video sequence, where occlusions are often encountered. Recent methods address occlusions using appearance cues through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Rongzihan Song , Zhenyu Weng , Huiping Zhuang , Jinchang Ren , Yongming Chen , Zhiping Lin

We propose a method for learning from streaming visual data using a compact, constant size representation of all the data that was seen until a given moment. Specifically, we construct a 'coreset' representation of streaming data using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Abhimanyu Dubey , Nikhil Naik , Dan Raviv , Rahul Sukthankar , Ramesh Raskar

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in monocular videos is fundamentally challenged by occlusions and depth ambiguity, issues that conventional tracking-by-detection (TBD) methods struggle to resolve owing to a lack of geometric awareness. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xudong Han , Pengcheng Fang , Yueying Tian , Jianhui Yu , Xiaohao Cai , Daniel Roggen , Philip Birch

Event cameras such as DAVIS can simultaneously output high temporal resolution events and low frame-rate intensity images, which own great potential in capturing scene motion, such as optical flow estimation. Most of the existing optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Zhexiong Wan , Yuchao Dai , Yuxin Mao

This paper deals with the scarcity of data for training optical flow networks, highlighting the limitations of existing sources such as labeled synthetic datasets or unlabeled real videos. Specifically, we introduce a framework to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Filippo Aleotti , Matteo Poggi , Stefano Mattoccia

Tracking the position and orientation of objects in space (i.e., in 6-DoF) in real time is a fundamental problem in robotics for environment interaction. It becomes more challenging when objects move at high-speed due to frame rate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zhichao Li , Arren Glover , Chiara Bartolozzi , Lorenzo Natale

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision, aiming to track targets across video frames. Existing MOT methods perform well in general visual scenes, but face significant challenges and limitations when extended to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sijia Chen , Zihan Zhou , Yanqiu Yu , En Yu , Wenbing Tao

Multi-object tracking (MOT) on static platforms, such as by surveillance cameras, has achieved significant progress, with various paradigms providing attractive performances. However, the effectiveness of traditional MOT methods is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Peng Wang , Yongcai Wang , Deying Li

For robots to be useful outside labs and specialized factories we need a way to teach them new useful behaviors quickly. Current approaches lack either the generality to onboard new tasks without task-specific engineering, or else lack the…

Handling all together large displacements, motion details and occlusions remains an open issue for reliable computation of optical flow in a video sequence. We propose a two-step aggregation paradigm to address this problem. The idea is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Denis Fortun , Patrick Bouthemy , Charles Kervrann

We present a new object representation, called Dense RepPoints, that utilizes a large set of points to describe an object at multiple levels, including both box level and pixel level. Techniques are proposed to efficiently process these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ze Yang , Yinghao Xu , Han Xue , Zheng Zhang , Raquel Urtasun , Liwei Wang , Stephen Lin , Han Hu

We present a pedestrian tracking algorithm, DensePeds, that tracks individuals in highly dense crowds (greater than 2 pedestrians per square meter). Our approach is designed for videos captured from front-facing or elevated cameras. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Rohan Chandra , Uttaran Bhattacharya , Aniket Bera , Dinesh Manocha

Detecting and tracking vehicles in urban scenes is a crucial step in many traffic-related applications as it helps to improve road user safety among other benefits. Various challenges remain unresolved in multi-object tracking (MOT)…