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Multi-object tracking (MOT) is critical in numerous real-world applications, including surveillance, autonomous driving, and robotics. Accurately predicting object motion is fundamental to MOT, but current methods struggle with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Nhat-Tan Do , Le-Huy Tu , Nhi Ngoc-Yen Nguyen , Dieu-Phuong Nguyen , Trong-Hop Do

Without manually annotated identities, unsupervised multi-object trackers are inferior to learning reliable feature embeddings. It causes the similarity-based inter-frame association stage also be error-prone, where an uncertainty problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Kai Liu , Sheng Jin , Zhihang Fu , Ze Chen , Rongxin Jiang , Jieping Ye

In this work, we consider data association problems involving multi-object tracking (MOT). In particular, we address the challenges arising from object occlusions. We propose a framework called approximate dynamic programming track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Pratyusha Musunuru , Yuchao Li , Jamison Weber , Dimitri Bertsekas

Tracking a time-varying indefinite number of objects in a video sequence over time remains a challenge despite recent advances in the field. Most existing approaches are not able to properly handle multi-object tracking challenges such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Tianyu Zhu , Markus Hiller , Mahsa Ehsanpour , Rongkai Ma , Tom Drummond , Ian Reid , Hamid Rezatofighi

The robust association of the same objects across video frames in complex scenes is crucial for many applications, especially Multiple Object Tracking (MOT). Current methods predominantly rely on labeled domain-specific video datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Siyuan Li , Lei Ke , Martin Danelljan , Luigi Piccinelli , Mattia Segu , Luc Van Gool , Fisher Yu

This paper presents enhancements to the SAM2 framework for video object tracking task, addressing challenges such as occlusions, background clutter, and target reappearance. We introduce a hierarchical motion estimation strategy, combining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ruixiang Chen , Guolei Sun , Yawei Li , Jie Qin , Luca Benini

Robust object tracking requires knowledge of tracked objects' appearance, motion and their evolution over time. Although motion provides distinctive and complementary information especially for fast moving objects, most of the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Hasan Saribas , Hakan Cevikalp , Okan Köpüklü , Bedirhan Uzun

Many multi-object tracking (MOT) methods follow the framework of "tracking by detection", which associates the target objects-of-interest based on the detection results. However, due to the separate models for detection and association, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 JiaXu Wan , Hong Zhang , Jin Zhang , Yuan Ding , Yifan Yang , Yan Li , Xuliang Li

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims at estimating bounding boxes and identities of objects in videos. Most methods obtain identities by associating detection boxes whose scores are higher than a threshold. The objects with low detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Yifu Zhang , Peize Sun , Yi Jiang , Dongdong Yu , Fucheng Weng , Zehuan Yuan , Ping Luo , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in human-dominant scenarios, which involves continuously tracking multiple people within video sequences, remains a significant challenge in computer vision due to targets' complex motion and severe occlusions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yingjie Wang , Zhixing Wang , Le Zheng , Tianxiao Liu , Roujing Li , Xueyao Hu

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in videos remains challenging due to complex object motions and crowded scenes. Recent DETR-based frameworks offer end-to-end solutions but typically process detection and tracking queries jointly within a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xu Yang , Gady Agam

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) has demonstrated strong performance in object segmentation tasks and has become the state-of-the-art for visual object tracking. The model stores information from previous frames in a memory bank, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Alen Adamyan , Tomáš Čížek , Matej Straka , Klara Janouskova , Martin Schmid

\noindent Memory has become the central mechanism enabling robust visual object tracking in modern segmentation-based frameworks. Recent methods built upon Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) have demonstrated strong performance by refining how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mohamad Alansari , Muzammal Naseer , Hasan Al Marzouqi , Naoufel Werghi , Sajid Javed

Automated animal behavior analysis relies on long-term, interpretable individual trajectories; however, multi-animal tracking in space science experimental videos remains highly challenging due to weak appearance cues, low-quality imaging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jianing You , Han Wang , Kang Liu , Jiale Ding , Fengjie Chu , Zihan Guo , Shengyang Li

Multiple object tracking (MOT) involves identifying multiple targets and assigning them corresponding IDs within a video sequence, where occlusions are often encountered. Recent methods address occlusions using appearance cues through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Rongzihan Song , Zhenyu Weng , Huiping Zhuang , Jinchang Ren , Yongming Chen , Zhiping Lin

Event-based object detection has recently garnered attention in the computer vision community due to the exceptional properties of event cameras, such as high dynamic range and no motion blur. However, feature asynchronism and sparsity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Ting-Kang Yen , Igor Morawski , Shusil Dangi , Kai He , Chung-Yi Lin , Jia-Fong Yeh , Hung-Ting Su , Winston Hsu

End-to-end multi-object tracking (MOT) methods have recently achieved remarkable progress by unifying detection and association within a single framework. Despite their strong detection performance, these methods suffer from relatively low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yuqing Shao , Yuchen Yang , Rui Yu , Weilong Li , Xu Guo , Huaicheng Yan , Wei Wang , Xiao Sun

Template-matching methods for visual tracking have gained popularity recently due to their good performance and fast speed. However, they lack effective ways to adapt to changes in the target object's appearance, making their tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Tianyu Yang , Antoni B. Chan

Multi-Camera Multi-Object Tracking (MC-MOT) utilizes information from multiple views to better handle problems with occlusion and crowded scenes. Recently, the use of graph-based approaches to solve tracking problems has become very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Cheng-Che Cheng , Min-Xuan Qiu , Chen-Kuo Chiang , Shang-Hong Lai

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