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Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) is a core capability in modern computer vision, essential to autonomous driving, surveillance, sports analytics, robotics, and biomedical imaging. Persistent identity assignment across frames remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Mk Bashar , Samia Islam , Kashifa Kawaakib Hussain , Md. Bakhtiar Hasan , A. B. M. Ashikur Rahman , Md. Hasanul Kabir

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

3D multi-object tracking is a critical and challenging task in the field of autonomous driving. A common paradigm relies on modeling individual object motion, e.g., Kalman filters, to predict trajectories. While effective in simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Haonan Zhang , Xinyao Wang , Boxi Wu , Tu Zheng , Wang Yunhua , Zheng Yang

Recent machine learning-based multi-object tracking (MOT) frameworks are becoming popular for 3-D point clouds. Most traditional tracking approaches use filters (e.g., Kalman filter or particle filter) to predict object locations in a time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Sukai Wang , Yuxiang Sun , Chengju Liu , Ming Liu

3D single object tracking in LiDAR point clouds (LiDAR SOT) plays a crucial role in autonomous driving. Current approaches all follow the Siamese paradigm based on appearance matching. However, LiDAR point clouds are usually textureless and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Chaoda Zheng , Xu Yan , Haiming Zhang , Baoyuan Wang , Shenghui Cheng , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

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

Existing end-to-end Multi-Object Tracking (e2e-MOT) methods have not surpassed non-end-to-end tracking-by-detection methods. One potential reason is its label assignment strategy during training that consistently binds the tracked objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Feng Yan , Weixin Luo , Yujie Zhong , Yiyang Gan , Lin Ma

Online multi-object tracking (MOT) is extremely important for high-level spatial reasoning and path planning for autonomous and highly-automated vehicles. In this paper, we present a modular framework for tracking multiple objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Akshay Rangesh , Mohan M. Trivedi

Most modern multiple object tracking (MOT) systems follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm, consisting of a detector followed by a method for associating detections into tracks. There is a long history in tracking of combining motion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Mohamed Chaabane , Peter Zhang , J. Ross Beveridge , Stephen O'Hara

Multiobject tracking (MOT) is an important task in applications including autonomous driving, ocean sciences, and aerospace surveillance. Traditional MOT methods are model-based and combine sequential Bayesian estimation with data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Shaoxiu Wei , Mingchao Liang , Florian Meyer

3D multi-object tracking in LiDAR point clouds is a key ingredient for self-driving vehicles. Existing methods are predominantly based on the tracking-by-detection pipeline and inevitably require a heuristic matching step for the detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Chenxu Luo , Xiaodong Yang , Alan Yuille

Robust multi-object tracking (MOT) is a prerequisite fora safe deployment of self-driving cars. Tracking objects, however, remains a highly challenging problem, especially in cluttered autonomous driving scenes in which objects tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Wei-Chih Hung , Henrik Kretzschmar , Tsung-Yi Lin , Yuning Chai , Ruichi Yu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Dragomir Anguelov

Tracking 3D objects accurately and consistently is crucial for autonomous vehicles, enabling more reliable downstream tasks such as trajectory prediction and motion planning. Based on the substantial progress in object detection in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shuxiao Ding , Eike Rehder , Lukas Schneider , Marius Cordts , Juergen Gall

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

3D Multi-Object Tracking (MOT), a fundamental component of environmental perception, is essential for intelligent systems like autonomous driving and robotic sensing. Although Tracking-by-Detection frameworks have demonstrated excellent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Xiaoxiang Wang , Jiaxin Liu , Miaojie Feng , Zhaoxing Zhang , Xin Yang

Multiple object tracking (MOT) is a crucial task in computer vision society. However, most tracking-by-detection MOT methods, with available detected bounding boxes, cannot effectively handle static, slow-moving and fast-moving camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Jiarui Cai , Yizhou Wang , Haotian Zhang , Hung-Min Hsu , Chengqian Ma , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a critical technology in computer vision, designed to detect multiple targets in video sequences and assign each target a unique ID per frame. Existed MOT methods excel at accurately tracking multiple objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Lifan Jiang , Zhihui Wang , Siqi Yin , Guangxiao Ma , Peng Zhang , Boxi Wu

Multi-object tracking (MOT) enables mobile robots to perform well-informed motion planning and navigation by localizing surrounding objects in 3D space and time. Existing methods rely on depth sensors (e.g., LiDAR) to detect and track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Aleksandr Kim , Aljoša Ošep , Laura Leal-Taixé

Tracking has traditionally been the art of following interest points through space and time. This changed with the rise of powerful deep networks. Nowadays, tracking is dominated by pipelines that perform object detection followed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Xingyi Zhou , Vladlen Koltun , Philipp Krähenbühl

3D multi-object tracking (MOT) and trajectory forecasting are two critical components in modern 3D perception systems. We hypothesize that it is beneficial to unify both tasks under one framework to learn a shared feature representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Xinshuo Weng , Ye Yuan , Kris Kitani