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Motion-based association for Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) has recently re-achieved prominence with the rise of powerful object detectors. Despite this, little work has been done to incorporate appearance cues beyond simple heuristic models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Gerard Maggiolino , Adnan Ahmad , Jinkun Cao , Kris Kitani

Visual Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is a crucial component of robotic perception, yet existing Tracking-By-Detection (TBD) methods often rely on 2D cues, such as bounding boxes and motion modeling, which struggle under occlusions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Buyin Deng , Lingxin Huang , Kai Luo , Fei Teng , Kailun Yang

In this work, we propose TransTrack, a simple but efficient scheme to solve the multiple object tracking problems. TransTrack leverages the transformer architecture, which is an attention-based query-key mechanism. It applies object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Peize Sun , Jinkun Cao , Yi Jiang , Rufeng Zhang , Enze Xie , Zehuan Yuan , Changhu Wang , Ping Luo

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

We consider the problem of tracking multiple, unknown, and time-varying numbers of objects using a distributed network of heterogeneous sensors. In an effort to derive a formulation for practical settings, we consider limited and unknown…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Fei Chen , Hoa Van Nguyen , Alex S. Leong , Sabita Panicker , Robin Baker , Damith C. Ranasinghe

3D multi-object tracking (MOT) has witnessed numerous novel benchmarks and approaches in recent years, especially those under the "tracking-by-detection" paradigm. Despite their progress and usefulness, an in-depth analysis of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Ziqi Pang , Zhichao Li , Naiyan Wang

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

Multi-object tracking (MOT) methods have seen a significant boost in performance recently, due to strong interest from the research community and steadily improving object detection methods. The majority of tracking methods follow the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Chang Won Lee , Steven L. Waslander

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

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) remains a vital component of intelligent video analysis, which aims to locate targets and maintain a consistent identity for each target throughout a video sequence. Existing works usually learn a discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Yizhe Li , Sanping Zhou , Zheng Qin , Le Wang , Jinjun Wang , Nanning Zheng

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) plays a crucial role in autonomous driving systems, as it lays the foundations for advanced perception and precise path planning modules. Nonetheless, single agent based MOT lacks in sensing surroundings due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Maria Damanaki , Nikos Piperigkos , Alexandros Gkillas , Aris S. Lalos

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is essential for sports analytics, enabling performance evaluation and tactical insights. However, tracking in sports is challenging due to fast movements, occlusions, and camera shifts. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tomasz Stanczyk , Seongro Yoon , Francois Bremond

End-to-end multi-object tracking (MOT) methods have recently achieved remarkable progress by unifying detection and association within a single framework. Despite their strong detection performance, these methods suffer from relatively low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yuqing Shao , Yuchen Yang , Rui Yu , Weilong Li , Xu Guo , Huaicheng Yan , Wei Wang , Xiao Sun

The ability for an autonomous agent or robot to track and identify potentially multiple objects in a dynamic environment is essential for many applications, such as automated surveillance, traffic monitoring, human-robot interaction, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Aijun Bai

Object detection and data association are critical components in multi-object tracking (MOT) systems. Despite the fact that the two components are dependent on each other, prior works often design detection and data association modules…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yongxin Wang , Kris Kitani , Xinshuo Weng

Multi-object tracking (MOT) has been dominated by the use of track by detection approaches due to the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on detection in the last decade. As the datasets and bench-marking sites are published,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Fatih Emre Simsek , Cevahir Cigla , Koray Kayabol

The recent trend in multiple object tracking (MOT) is heading towards leveraging deep learning to boost the tracking performance. In this paper, we propose a novel solution named TransSTAM, which leverages Transformer to effectively model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Peng Dai , Yiqiang Feng , Renliang Weng , Changshui Zhang

Target detection and tracking provides crucial information for motion planning and decision making in autonomous driving. This paper proposes an online multi-object tracking (MOT) framework with tracking-by-detection for maneuvering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Zehui Meng , Qi Heng Ho , Zefan Huang , Hongliang Guo , Marcelo H. Ang , Daniela Rus

Different from existing MOT (Multi-Object Tracking) techniques that usually aim at improving tracking accuracy and average FPS, real-time systems such as autonomous vehicles necessitate new requirements of MOT under limited computing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-24 Donghwa Kang , Seunghoon Lee , Hoon Sung Chwa , Seung-Hwan Bae , Chang Mook Kang , Jinkyu Lee , Hyeongboo Baek

Multi-object tracking (MOT) at low frame rates can reduce computational, storage and power overhead to better meet the constraints of edge devices. Many existing MOT methods suffer from significant performance degradation in low-frame-rate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yiheng Liu , Junta Wu , Yi Fu