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Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is a critical problem in computer vision, essential for understanding how objects move and interact in videos. This field faces significant challenges such as occlusions and complex environmental dynamics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Luiz C. S. de Araujo , Carlos M. S. Figueiredo

Multi-object tracking (MOT) has profound applications in a variety of fields, including surveillance, sports analytics, self-driving, and cooperative robotics. Despite considerable advancements, existing MOT methodologies tend to falter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Hamza Mukhtar , Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan

Temporal modeling of objects is a key challenge in multiple object tracking (MOT). Existing methods track by associating detections through motion-based and appearance-based similarity heuristics. The post-processing nature of association…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Fangao Zeng , Bin Dong , Yuang Zhang , Tiancai Wang , Xiangyu Zhang , Yichen Wei

Tracking specific targets, such as pedestrians and vehicles, has been the focus of recent vision-based multitarget tracking studies. However, in some real-world scenarios, unseen categories often challenge existing methods due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Zewei Wu , Longhao Wang , Cui Wang , César Teixeira , Wei Ke , Zhang Xiong

Recently, many multi-modal trackers prioritize RGB as the dominant modality, treating other modalities as auxiliary, and fine-tuning separately various multi-modal tasks. This imbalance in modality dependence limits the ability of methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xiantao Hu , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Zhiyi Mo , Liangtao Shi , Ying Tai , Jian Yang

Cross-modal object tracking (CMOT) is an emerging task that maintains target consistency while the video stream switches between different modalities, with only one modality available in each frame, mostly focusing on RGB-Near Infrared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Boyue Xu , Ruichao Hou , Tongwei Ren , Dongming Zhou , Gangshan Wu , Jinde Cao

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

Sparse representation has been widely studied in visual tracking, which has shown promising tracking performance. Despite a lot of progress, the visual tracking problem is still a challenging task due to appearance variations over time. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Xue Yang , Fei Han , Hua Wang , Hao Zhang

Multiple object tracking and segmentation requires detecting, tracking, and segmenting objects belonging to a set of given classes. Most approaches only exploit the temporal dimension to address the association problem, while relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Lei Ke , Xia Li , Martin Danelljan , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Fisher Yu

Visual tracking often faces challenges such as invalid targets and decreased performance in low-light conditions when relying solely on RGB image sequences. While incorporating additional modalities like depth and infrared data has proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Lei Liu , Mengya Zhang , Cheng Li , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang

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

Occlusion is a long-standing problem that causes many modern tracking methods to be erroneous. In this paper, we address the occlusion problem by exploiting the current and future possible locations of the target object from its past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yuan Liu , Ruoteng Li , Robby T. Tan , Yu Cheng , Xiubao Sui

Tracking a time-varying indefinite number of objects in a video sequence over time remains a challenge despite recent advances in the field. Most existing approaches are not able to properly handle multi-object tracking challenges such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Tianyu Zhu , Markus Hiller , Mahsa Ehsanpour , Rongkai Ma , Tom Drummond , Ian Reid , Hamid Rezatofighi

Recent advances in Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) have demonstrated significant success in short-term association within the separated tracking-by-detection online paradigm. However, long-term tracking remains challenging. While graph-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Chongwei Liu , Haojie Li , Zhihui Wang , Rui Xu

Visual object tracking is a significant computer vision task which can be applied to many domains such as visual surveillance, human computer interaction, and video compression. In the literature, researchers have proposed a variety of 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Xi Li , Weiming Hu , Chunhua Shen , Zhongfei Zhang , Anthony Dick , Anton van den Hengel

As an important area in computer vision, object tracking has formed two separate communities that respectively study Single Object Tracking (SOT) and Multiple Object Tracking (MOT). However, current methods in one tracking scenario are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Fan Ma , Mike Zheng Shou , Linchao Zhu , Haoqi Fan , Yilei Xu , Yi Yang , Zhicheng Yan

The purpose of multi-object tracking (MOT) is to continuously track and identify objects detected in videos. Currently, most methods for multi-object tracking model the motion information and combine it with appearance information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Junchao Huang , Xiaoqi He Yebo Wu , Sheng Zhao

Tracking-by-detection approaches are some of the most successful object trackers in recent years. Their success is largely determined by the detector model they learn initially and then update over time. However, under challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Yang Hua , Karteek Alahari , Cordelia Schmid

Conventional multi-object tracking (MOT) systems are predominantly designed for pedestrian tracking and often exhibit limited generalization to other object categories. This paper presents a generalized tracking framework capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Hamidreza Hashempoor , Yu Dong Hwang

Visual tracking is typically solved as a discriminative learning problem that usually requires high-quality samples for online model adaptation. It is a critical and challenging problem to evaluate the training samples collected from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Weichao Li , Xi Li , Omar Elfarouk Bourahla , Fuxian Huang , Fei Wu , Wei Liu , Zhiheng Wang , Hongmin Liu