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Contextual information at the video level has become increasingly crucial for visual object tracking. However, existing methods typically use only a few tokens to convey this information, which can lead to information loss and limit their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ben Kang , Xin Chen , Simiao Lai , Yang Liu , Yi Liu , Dong Wang

3D multi-object tracking aims to uniquely and consistently identify all mobile entities through time. Despite the rich spatiotemporal information available in this setting, current 3D tracking methods primarily rely on abstracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Colton Stearns , Davis Rempe , Jie Li , Rares Ambrus , Sergey Zakharov , Vitor Guizilini , Yanchao Yang , Leonidas J Guibas

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in UAV-based video is challenging due to variations in viewpoint, low resolution, and the presence of small objects. While other research on MOT dedicated to aerial videos primarily focuses on the academic aspect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Nhat-Tan Do , Nhi Ngoc-Yen Nguyen , Dieu-Phuong Nguyen , Trong-Hop Do

This paper addresses the trajectory tracking control problem for underactuated VTOL UAVs. According to the different actuation mechanisms, the most common UAV platforms can achieve only a partial decoupling of attitude and position tasks.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-11 Davide Invernizzi , Marco Lovera , Luca Zaccarian

In the field of sensor fusion and state estimation for object detection and localization, ensuring accurate tracking in dynamic environments poses significant challenges. Traditional methods like the Kalman Filter (KF) often fail when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Khaled Gabr , Mohamed Abdelkader , Imen Jarraya , Abdullah AlMusalami , Anis Koubaa

Micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) are becoming ubiquitous across multiple industries and application domains. Lightweight MAVs with only an onboard flight controller and a minimal sensor suite (e.g., IMU, vision, and vertical ranging sensors)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Li Qingqing , Yu Xianjia , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

With the advent of Transformer-based one-stream trackers that possess strong capability in inter-frame relation modeling, recent research has increasingly focused on how to introduce spatio-temporal context. However, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Wenrui Cai , Zhenyi Lu , Yuzhe Li , Yongchao Feng , Jinqing Zhang , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are commonly used in search and rescue scenarios to gather information in the search area. The automatic identification of the person searched for in aerial footage could increase the autonomy of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yannik Blei , Michael Krawez , Nisarga Nilavadi , Tanja Katharina Kaiser , Wolfram Burgard

The vision-language tracking task aims to perform object tracking based on various modality references. Existing Transformer-based vision-language tracking methods have made remarkable progress by leveraging the global modeling ability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xinqi Liu , Li Zhou , Zikun Zhou , Jianqiu Chen , Zhenyu He

A framework is introduced for planning unmanned aerial vehicle flight paths for visual surveillance of ground targets, each having particular viewing requirements. Specifically, each target is associated with a set of imaging parameters,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-16 Jeffrey R. Peters , Amit Surana , Grant S. Taylor , Terry S. Turpin , Francesco Bullo

Text tracking is to track multiple texts in a video,and construct a trajectory for each text. Existing methodstackle this task by utilizing the tracking-by-detection frame-work, i.e., detecting the text instances in each frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Yuzhe Gao , Xing Li , Jiajian Zhang , Yu Zhou , Dian Jin , Jing Wang , Shenggao Zhu , Xiang Bai

Motion planning is an essential process for the navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) where they need to adapt to obstacles and different structures of their operating environment to reach the goal. This paper presents an optimal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Duy-Nam Bui , Thu Hang Khuat , Manh Duong Phung , Thuan-Hoang Tran , Dong LT Tran

Siamese network based trackers develop rapidly in the field of visual object tracking in recent years. The majority of siamese network based trackers now in use treat each channel in the feature maps generated by the backbone network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Jiahao Bao , Kaiqiang Chen , Xian Sun , Liangjin Zhao , Wenhui Diao , Menglong Yan

The growing proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) poses major challenges for reliable airspace surveillance, as drones are typically small, have low radar cross-sections, and often move slowly in cluttered environments. These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Anders Malthe Westerkam , Jakob Möderl , Erik Leitinger , Troels Pedersen

In this paper, a novel multi-modal intelligent channel model for sixth-generation (6G) multiple-unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV)-to-multi-vehicle communications is proposed. To thoroughly explore the mapping relationship between the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Lu Bai , Mengyuan Lu , Ziwei Huang , Xiang Cheng

Being intensively studied, visual object tracking has witnessed great advances in either speed (e.g., with correlation filters) or accuracy (e.g., with deep features). Real-time and high accuracy tracking algorithms, however, remain scarce.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Heng Fan , Haibin Ling

Vision-based target tracking is crucial for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to perform tasks such as inspection, monitoring, and surveillance. However, real-time tracking in complex maritime environments is challenging due to dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Muhayy Ud Din , Ahsan B. Bakht , Waseem Akram , Yihao Dong , Lakmal Seneviratne , Irfan Hussain

We address the problem of reactive motion planning for quadrotors operating in unknown environments with dynamic obstacles. Our approach leverages a 4-dimensional spatio-temporal planner, integrated with vision-based Safe Flight Corridor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Astik Srivastava , Thomas J Chackenkulam , Bitla Bhanu Teja , Antony Thomas , Madhava Krishna

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can offer timely and cost-effective delivery of high-quality sensing data. How- ever, deciding when and where to take measurements in complex environments remains an open challenge. To address this issue, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Marija Popovic , Teresa Vidal-Calleja , Gregory Hitz , Inkyu Sa , Roland Siegwart , Juan Nieto

Object tracking from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is challenged by platform dynamics, camera motion, and limited onboard resources. Existing visual trackers either lack robustness in complex scenarios or are too computationally demanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Augustin Borne , Pierre Notin , Christophe Hennequin , Sebastien Changey , Stephane Bazeille , Christophe Cudel , Franz Quint