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Multi-modal object tracking (MMOT) is an emerging field that combines data from various modalities, \eg vision (RGB), depth, thermal infrared, event, language and audio, to estimate the state of an arbitrary object in a video sequence. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Chunhui Zhang , Li Liu , Hao Wen , Xi Zhou , Yanfeng Wang

Tracking by natural language specification aims to locate the referred target in a sequence based on the natural language description. Existing algorithms solve this issue in two steps, visual grounding and tracking, and accordingly deploy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Li Zhou , Zikun Zhou , Kaige Mao , Zhenyu He

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have demonstrated significant potential as generalists in vision-language (VL) tasks. However, adoption of LMMs in real-world tasks is hindered by their poor performance in tasks that require a combination of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zhoutong Ye , Mingze Sun , Huan-ang Gao , Xutong Wang , Xiangyang Wang , Yu Mei , Chang Liu , Qinwei Li , Chengwen Zhang , Qinghuan Lan , Chun Yu , Yuanchun Shi

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) has witnessed remarkable advances in recent years. However, existing studies dominantly request prior knowledge of the tracking target, and hence may not generalize well to unseen categories. In contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Hexin Bai , Wensheng Cheng , Peng Chu , Juehuan Liu , Kai Zhang , Haibin Ling

Referring multi-object tracking (RMOT) is an emerging cross-modal task that aims to localize an arbitrary number of targets based on a language expression and continuously track them in a video. This intricate task involves reasoning on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Wenjun Huang , Yang Ni , Hanning Chen , Yirui He , Ian Bryant , Yezi Liu , Mohsen Imani

Open-vocabulary multi-object tracking (OVMOT) represents a critical new challenge involving the detection and tracking of diverse object categories in videos, encompassing both seen categories (base classes) and unseen categories (novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zekun Qian , Ruize Han , Junhui Hou , Linqi Song , Wei Feng

This study investigates the use of large language models (LLMs) for human behavior understanding by jointly leveraging motion and video data. We argue that integrating these complementary modalities is essential for capturing both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Rajan Das Gupta , Lei Wei , Md Yeasin Rahat , Nafiz Fahad , Abir Ahmed , Liew Tze Hui

Vision-Language Tracking aims to continuously localize objects described by a visual template and a language description. Existing methods, however, are typically limited to local search, making them prone to failures under viewpoint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jingchao Wang , Kaiwen Zhou , Zhijian Wu , Kunhua Ji , Dingjiang Huang , Yefeng Zheng

Object detection has long been a topic of high interest in computer vision literature. Motivated by the fact that annotating data for the multi-object tracking (MOT) problem is immensely expensive, recent studies have turned their attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Son Tran , Cong Tran , Anh Tran , Cuong Pham

Visual Object Tracking (VOT) aims to estimate the positions of target objects in a video sequence, which is an important vision task with various real-world applications. Depending on whether the initial states of target objects are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Junke Wang , Zuxuan Wu , Dongdong Chen , Chong Luo , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Yu-Gang Jiang

While Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) has made substantial advancements, it is limited by heavy reliance on prior knowledge and limited to predefined categories. In contrast, Generic Multiple Object Tracking (GMOT), tracking multiple objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Duy Le Dinh Anh , Kim Hoang Tran , Ngan Hoang Le

Visual Language Tracking (VLT) enhances single object tracking (SOT) by integrating natural language descriptions from a video, for the precise tracking of a specified object. By leveraging high-level semantic information, VLT guides object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xuchen Li , Xiaokun Feng , Shiyu Hu , Meiqi Wu , Dailing Zhang , Jing Zhang , Kaiqi Huang

Existing referring understanding tasks tend to involve the detection of a single text-referred object. In this paper, we propose a new and general referring understanding task, termed referring multi-object tracking (RMOT). Its core idea is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Dongming Wu , Wencheng Han , Tiancai Wang , Xingping Dong , Xiangyu Zhang , Jianbing Shen

Current multi-object tracking (MOT) algorithms typically overlook issues inherent in low-quality videos, leading to significant degradation in tracking performance when confronted with real-world image deterioration. Therefore, advancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jun Du , Weiwei Xing , Ming Li , Fei Richard Yu

Open-vocabulary Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) aims to generalize trackers to novel categories not in the training set. Currently, the best-performing methods are mainly based on pure appearance matching. Due to the complexity of motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Siyuan Li , Lei Ke , Yung-Hsu Yang , Luigi Piccinelli , Mattia Segù , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool

Vision-language tracking aims to locate the target object in the video sequence using a template patch and a language description provided in the initial frame. To achieve robust tracking, especially in complex long-term scenarios that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 X. Feng , S. Hu , X. Li , D. Zhang , M. Wu , J. Zhang , X. Chen , K. Huang

Referring understanding is a fundamental task that bridges natural language and visual content by localizing objects described in free-form expressions. However, existing works are constrained by limited language expressiveness, lacking the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yani Zhang , Dongming Wu , Wencheng Han , Xingping Dong

Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) aims to achieve precise object detection and tracking through natural language instructions, representing a fundamental capability for intelligent robotic systems. However, current RMOT research…

Vision-language tracking (VLT) extends traditional single object tracking by incorporating textual information, providing semantic guidance to enhance tracking performance under challenging conditions like fast motion and deformations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xuchen Li , Shiyu Hu , Xiaokun Feng , Dailing Zhang , Meiqi Wu , Jing Zhang , Kaiqi Huang

Tracking by natural language specification (TNL) aims to consistently localize a target in a video sequence given a linguistic description in the initial frame. Existing methodologies perform language-based and template-based matching for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Yanyan Shao , Shuting He , Qi Ye , Yuchao Feng , Wenhan Luo , Jiming Chen