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Person Re-identification is a research area with significant real world applications. Despite recent progress, existing methods face challenges in robust re-identification in the wild, e.g., by focusing only on a particular modality and on…
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While there has been substantial progress in learning suitable distance metrics, these techniques in general lack transparency and decision reasoning, i.e., explaining why the input set of images is similar or dissimilar. In this work, we…
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Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision that requires continuously tracking multiple targets while maintaining consistent identities across frames. However, most existing approaches primarily rely on…
Multiple existing benchmarks involve tracking and segmenting objects in video e.g., Video Object Segmentation (VOS) and Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation (MOTS), but there is little interaction between them due to the use of disparate…
Autonomous-driving perception systems require robust Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) to operate reliably in dynamic environments. MOT maintains consistent object identities across frames while preserving spatial accuracy. Recent foundation…
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Object tracking is a long standing problem in vision. While great efforts have been spent to improve tracking performance, a simple yet reliable prior knowledge is left unexploited: the target object in tracking must be an object other than…
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