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Multi-modal object tracking (MMOT) is an emerging field that combines data from various modalities, \eg vision (RGB), depth, thermal infrared, event, language and audio, to estimate the state of an arbitrary object in a video sequence. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Chunhui Zhang , Li Liu , Hao Wen , Xi Zhou , Yanfeng Wang

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

Multispectral image pairs can provide the combined information, making object detection applications more reliable and robust in the open world. To fully exploit the different modalities, we present a simple yet effective cross-modality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Fang Qingyun , Han Dapeng , Wang Zhaokui

Current RGBT tracking research relies on the complete multi-modal input, but modal information might miss due to some factors such as thermal sensor self-calibration and data transmission error, called modality-missing challenge in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Andong Lu , Jiacong Zhao , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

Vision-language retrieval is an important multi-modal learning topic, where the goal is to retrieve the most relevant visual candidate for a given text query. Recently, pre-trained models, e.g., CLIP, show great potential on retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Haojun Jiang , Jianke Zhang , Rui Huang , Chunjiang Ge , Zanlin Ni , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

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

Inspired by the complementarity between conventional frame-based and bio-inspired event-based cameras, we propose a multi-modal based approach to fuse visual cues from the frame- and event-domain to enhance the single object tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jiqing Zhang , Xin Yang , Yingkai Fu , Xiaopeng Wei , Baocai Yin , Bo Dong

Due to the complementary nature of visible light and thermal infrared modalities, object tracking based on the fusion of visible light images and thermal images (referred to as RGB-T tracking) has received increasing attention from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yang Luo , Xiqing Guo , Hao Li

Multi-sensor perception is crucial to ensure the reliability and accuracy in autonomous driving system, while multi-object tracking (MOT) improves that by tracing sequential movement of dynamic objects. Most current approaches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Wenwei Zhang , Hui Zhou , Shuyang Sun , Zhe Wang , Jianping Shi , Chen Change Loy

Multi-modal tracking is essential in single-object tracking (SOT), as different sensor types contribute unique capabilities to overcome challenges caused by variations in object appearance. However, existing unified RGB-X trackers (X…

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

Multi-modal affect recognition models leverage complementary information in different modalities to outperform their uni-modal counterparts. However, due to the unavailability of modality-specific sensors or data, multi-modal models may not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Vandana Rajan , Alessio Brutti , Andrea Cavallaro

Multimodal remote sensing object detection aims to achieve more accurate and robust perception under challenging conditions by fusing complementary information from different modalities. However, existing approaches that rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jianhong Han , Yupei Wang , Yuan Zhang , Liang Chen

Recently, visual prompt tuning is introduced to RGB-Thermal (RGB-T) tracking as a parameter-efficient finetuning (PEFT) method. However, these PEFT-based RGB-T tracking methods typically rely solely on spatial domain information as prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Hongtao Yang , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Zhiruo Zhu , Yaozong Zheng , Ning Li

We propose a universal video-level modality-awareness tracking model with online dense temporal token learning (called {\modaltracker}). It is designed to support various tracking tasks, including RGB, RGB+Thermal, RGB+Depth, and RGB+Event,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Yaozong Zheng , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Shengping Zhang , Guorong Li , Xianxian Li , Rongrong Ji

Existing multi-modal object tracking approaches primarily focus on dual-modal paradigms, such as RGB-Depth or RGB-Thermal, yet remain challenged in complex scenarios due to limited input modalities. To address this gap, this work introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xue-Feng Zhu , Tianyang Xu , Yifan Pan , Jinjie Gu , Xi Li , Jiwen Lu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

Traditional systems typically require different models for processing different modalities, such as one model for RGB images and another for depth images. Recent research has demonstrated that a single model for one modality can be adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Xiaoke Shen , Ioannis Stamos

Multi-modal object tracking has attracted considerable attention by integrating multiple complementary inputs (e.g., thermal, depth, and event data) to achieve outstanding performance. Although current general-purpose multi-modal trackers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Qihua Liang , Liang Chen , Yaozong Zheng , Jian Nong , Zhiyi Mo , Bineng Zhong

Most existing multimodal trackers adopt uniform fusion strategies, overlooking the inherent differences between modalities. Moreover, they propagate temporal information through mixed tokens, leading to entangled and less discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Shilei Wang , Pujian Lai , Dong Gao , Jifeng Ning , Gong Cheng

Multimodal visual object tracking can be divided into to several kinds of tasks (e.g. RGB and RGB+X tracking), based on the input modality. Existing methods often train separate models for each modality or rely on pretrained models to adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lingyi Hong , Jinglun Li , Xinyu Zhou , Kaixun Jiang , Pinxue Guo , Zhaoyu Chen , Runze Li , Xingdong Sheng , Wenqiang Zhang

Multi-modal Video Object Segmentation (VOS), including RGB-Thermal, RGB-Depth, and RGB-Event, has garnered attention due to its capability to address challenging scenarios where traditional VOS methods struggle, such as extreme…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Pinxue Guo , Wanyun Li , Hao Huang , Lingyi Hong , Xinyu Zhou , Zhaoyu Chen , Jinglun Li , Kaixun Jiang , Wei Zhang , Wenqiang Zhang