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Modern multiple object tracking (MOT) systems usually follow the \emph{tracking-by-detection} paradigm. It has 1) a detection model for target localization and 2) an appearance embedding model for data association. Having the two models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Zhongdao Wang , Liang Zheng , Yixuan Liu , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang

Data association-based multiple object tracking (MOT) involves multiple separated modules processed or optimized differently, which results in complex method design and requires non-trivial tuning of parameters. In this paper, we present an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Peng Chu , Haibin Ling

Despite recent progress, Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) continues to face significant challenges, particularly its dependence on prior knowledge and predefined categories, complicating the tracking of unfamiliar objects. Generic Multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Duy Le Dinh Anh , Kim Hoang Tran , Quang-Thuc Nguyen , Ngan Hoang Le

State-of-the-art multi-object tracking~(MOT) methods follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm, where object trajectories are obtained by associating per-frame outputs of object detectors. In crowded scenes, however, detectors often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Weihong Ren , Xinchao Wang , Jiandong Tian , Yandong Tang , Antoni B. Chan

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) focuses on modeling the relationship of detected objects among consecutive frames and merge them into different trajectories. MOT remains a challenging task as noisy and confusing detection results often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Tao Wang , Kean Chen , Weiyao Lin , John See , Zenghui Zhang , Qian Xu , Xia Jia

Evaluating tracking model performance is a complicated task, particularly for non-contiguous, multi-object trackers that are crucial in defense applications. While there are various excellent tracking benchmarks available, this work expands…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Kenneth Rapko , Wanlin Xie , Andrew Walsh

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a challenging practical problem for vision based applications. Most recent approaches for MOT use precomputed detections from models such as Faster RCNN, performing fine-tuning of bounding boxes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Parthesh Soni , Falak Shah , Nisarg Vyas

Visual object tracking, as a fundamental task in computer vision, has drawn much attention in recent years. To extend trackers to a wider range of applications, researchers have introduced information from multiple modalities to handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Pengyu Zhang , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision, aiming to track targets across video frames. Existing MOT methods perform well in general visual scenes, but face significant challenges and limitations when extended to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sijia Chen , Zihan Zhou , Yanqiu Yu , En Yu , Wenbing Tao

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

This study provides a detailed analysis of current advancements in dynamic object tracking (DOT) and trajectory prediction (TP) methodologies, including their applications and challenges. It covers various approaches, such as feature-based,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhongping Dong , Liming Chen , Mohand Tahar Kechadi

How to combine the complementary capabilities of an ensemble of different algorithms has been of central interest in visual object tracking. A significant progress on such a problem has been achieved, but considering short-term tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Matteo Dunnhofer , Christian Micheloni

Cross-view multi-object tracking aims to link objects between frames and camera views with substantial overlaps. Although cross-view multi-object tracking has received increased attention in recent years, existing datasets still have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shenghao Hao , Peiyuan Liu , Yibing Zhan , Kaixun Jin , Zuozhu Liu , Mingli Song , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Gaoang Wang

Cross-modal object tracking is an important research topic in the field of information fusion, and it aims to address imaging limitations in challenging scenarios by integrating switchable visible and near-infrared modalities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Lei Liu , Chenglong Li , Futian Wang , Longfeng Shen , Jin Tang

Due to the varying granularity of target states across different tasks, most existing trackers are tailored to a single task, which specificity limits their generalization, preventing them from effectively utilizing multi-task training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jiaming Zhang , Cheng Liang , Yichun Yang , Chenkai Zeng , Yutao Cui , Xinwen Zhang , Xin Zhou , Kai Ma , Gangshan Wu , Limin Wang

The problem of multi-object tracking is a fundamental computer vision research focus, widely used in public safety, transport, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and other regions involving artificial intelligence. Because of the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Kai Ren , Chuanping Hu

Drone-based multi-object tracking is essential yet highly challenging due to small targets, severe occlusions, and cluttered backgrounds. Existing RGB-based tracking algorithms heavily depend on spatial appearance cues such as color and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Tianhao Li , Tingfa Xu , Ying Wang , Haolin Qin , Xu Lin , Jianan Li

In recent years, algorithms for multiple object tracking tasks have benefited from great progresses in deep models and video quality. However, in challenging scenarios like drone videos, they still suffer from problems, such as small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Yunhao Du , Junfeng Wan , Yanyun Zhao , Binyu Zhang , Zhihang Tong , Junhao Dong

Multi-Object Tracking, also known as Multi-Target Tracking, is a significant area of computer vision that has many uses in a variety of settings. The development of deep learning, which has encouraged researchers to propose more and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Vincenzo Mariano Scarrica , Ciro Panariello , Alessio Ferone , Antonino Staiano

In recent years, the joint detection-and-tracking paradigm has been a very popular way of tackling the multi-object tracking (MOT) task. Many of the methods following this paradigm use the object center keypoint for detection. However, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Jacob Meilleur , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau