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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

The insufficient number of annotated thermal infrared (TIR) image datasets not only hinders TIR image-based deep learning networks to have comparable performances to that of RGB but it also limits the supervised learning of TIR image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Dong-Guw Lee , Myung-Hwan Jeon , Younggun Cho , Ayoung Kim

Thermal infrared imaging exhibits considerable potentials for robotic perception tasks, especially in environments with poor visibility or challenging lighting conditions. However, TIR images typically suffer from heavy non-uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Tai Hyoung Rhee , Dong-guw Lee , Ayoung Kim

Image inpainting has achieved fundamental advances with deep learning. However, almost all existing inpainting methods aim to process natural images, while few target Thermal Infrared (TIR) images, which have widespread applications. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Zeyu Wang , Haibin Shen , Changyou Men , Quan Sun , Kejie Huang

Infrared dim and small target detection presents a significant challenge due to dynamic multi-frame scenarios and weak target signatures in the infrared modality. Traditional low-rank plus sparse models often fail to capture dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Pei Liu , Yisi Luo , Wenzhen Wang , Xiangyong Cao

Object tracking based on the fusion of visible and thermal im-ages, known as RGB-T tracking, has gained increasing atten-tion from researchers in recent years. How to achieve a more comprehensive fusion of information from the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Yang Luo , Xiqing Guo , Hui Feng , Lei Ao

Thermal Infrared (TIR) imaging provides robust perception for navigating in challenging outdoor environments but faces issues with poor texture and low image contrast due to its 14/16-bit format. Conventional methods utilize various…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Dong-Guw Lee , Jeongyun Kim , Younggun Cho , Ayoung Kim

RGB-T tracking leverages the complementary strengths of RGB and thermal infrared (TIR) modalities to address challenging scenarios such as low illumination and adverse weather. However, existing methods often fail to effectively integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zhongxuan Zhang , Bi Zeng , Xinyu Ni , Yimin Du

Thermal infrared (TIR) pedestrian tracking is one of the important components among numerous applications of computer vision, which has a major advantage: it can track pedestrians in total darkness. The ability to evaluate the TIR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Qiao Liu , Zhenyu He , Xin Li , Yuan Zheng

Thermal infrared (TIR) target tracking methods often adopt the correlation filter (CF) framework due to its computational efficiency. However, the low resolution of TIR images, along with tracking interference, significantly limits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shang Zhang , Xiaobo Ding , Huanbin Zhang , Ruoyan Xiong , Yue Zhang

Tracking objects can be a difficult task in computer vision, especially when faced with challenges such as occlusion, changes in lighting, and motion blur. Recent advances in deep learning have shown promise in challenging these conditions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Abbas Türkoğlu , Erdem Akagündüz

Nowadays, infrared target tracking has been a critical technology in the field of computer vision and has many applications, such as motion analysis, pedestrian surveillance, intelligent detection, and so forth. Unfortunately, due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Wei-Jie Yan , Yun-Kai Xu , Qian Chen , Xiao-Fang Kong , Guo-Hua Gu , A-Jun Shao , Min-Jie Wan

Robust perception at night remains challenging for thermal-infrared detection: low contrast and weak high-frequency cues lead to duplicate, overlapping boxes, missed small objects, and class confusion. Prior remedies either translate TIR to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 SiWoo Kim , JhongHyun An

In many visual systems, visual tracking often bases on RGB image sequences, in which some targets are invalid in low-light conditions, and tracking performance is thus affected significantly. Introducing other modalities such as depth and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Chenglong Li , Tianhao Zhu , Lei Liu , Xiaonan Si , Zilin Fan , Sulan Zhai

Multispectral object detection, utilizing RGB and TIR (thermal infrared) modalities, is widely recognized as a challenging task. It requires not only the effective extraction of features from both modalities and robust fusion strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Chen Zhou , Peng Cheng , Junfeng Fang , Yifan Zhang , Yibo Yan , Xiaojun Jia , Yanyan Xu , Kun Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Thermal infrared (TIR) images typically lack detailed features and have low contrast, making it challenging for conventional feature extraction models to capture discriminative target characteristics. As a result, trackers are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ruoyan Xiong , Huanbin Zhang , Shentao Wang , Hui He , Yuke Hou , Yue Zhang , Yujie Cui , Huipan Guan , Shang Zhang

Deep learning-based methods monopolize the latest research in the field of thermal infrared (TIR) object tracking. However, relying solely on deep learning models to obtain better tracking results requires carefully selecting feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Peng Gao , Shi-Min Li , Feng Gao , Fei Wang , Ru-Yue Yuan , Hamido Fujita

In recent years, deep-learning-based visual object trackers have been studied thoroughly, but handling occlusions and/or rapid motion of the target remains challenging. In this work, we argue that conditioning on the natural language (NL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Qi Feng , Vitaly Ablavsky , Qinxun Bai , Guorong Li , Stan Sclaroff

Thermal infrared (TIR) object tracking often suffers from challenges such as target occlusion, motion blur, and background clutter, which significantly degrade the performance of trackers. To address these issues, this paper pro-poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Shang Zhang , Huanbin Zhang , Dali Feng , Yujie Cui , Ruoyan Xiong , Cen He

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) retrieves target images using a multi-modal query that combines a reference image with text describing desired modifications. The primary challenge is effectively fusing this visual and textual information.…

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