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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

Research in Anti-UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) tracking has explored various modalities, including RGB, TIR, and RGB-T fusion. However, a unified framework for cross-modal collaboration is still lacking. Existing approaches have primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Qionglin Ren , Dawei Zhang , Chunxu Tian , Dan Zhang

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) plays an important role in solving many fundamental problems in video analysis in computer vision. Most MOT methods employ two steps: Object Detection and Data Association. The first step detects objects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 ShiJie Sun , Naveed Akhtar , HuanSheng Song , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah

Real-time tracking of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on edge devices faces a fundamental resolution-speed conflict. Downsampling high-resolution imagery to standard detector input sizes causes small target features to collapse below…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiawen Wen , Yu Hu , Suixuan Qiu , Jinshan Huang , Xiaowen Chu

Detecting objects from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is often hindered by a large number of small objects, resulting in low detection accuracy. To address this issue, mainstream approaches typically utilize multi-stage inferences. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Fan Liu , Liang Yao , Chuanyi Zhang , Ting Wu , Xinlei Zhang , Xiruo Jiang , Jun Zhou

This paper proposes a systematic solution that uses an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to aggressively and safely track an agile target. The solution properly handles the challenging situations where the intent of the target and the dense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Zhichao Han , Ruibin Zhang , Neng Pan , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) are becoming ubiquitous across multiple industries and application domains. Lightweight MAVs with only an onboard flight controller and a minimal sensor suite (e.g., IMU, vision, and vertical ranging sensors)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Li Qingqing , Yu Xianjia , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Multi-Object Tracking is one of the most important technologies in maritime computer vision. Our solution tries to explore Multi-Object Tracking in maritime Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) usage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Kaer Huang , Weitu Chong

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is one of the most challenging tasks in computer vision, where it is important to correctly detect objects and associate these detections across frames. Current approaches mainly focus on tracking objects in each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Matvei Shelukhan , Timur Mamedov , Karina Kvanchiani

Multi-object tracking (MOT) on static platforms, such as by surveillance cameras, has achieved significant progress, with various paradigms providing attractive performances. However, the effectiveness of traditional MOT methods is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Peng Wang , Yongcai Wang , Deying Li

We propose an approach to detect flying objects such as UAVs and aircrafts when they occupy a small portion of the field of view, possibly moving against complex backgrounds, and are filmed by a camera that itself moves. Solving such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Artem Rozantsev , Vincent Lepetit , Pascal Fua

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a crucial component of situational awareness in military defense applications. With the growing use of unmanned aerial systems (UASs), MOT methods for aerial surveillance is in high demand. Application of MOT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Wanlin Xie , Jaime Ide , Daniel Izadi , Sean Banger , Thayne Walker , Ryan Ceresani , Dylan Spagnuolo , Christopher Guagliano , Henry Diaz , Jason Twedt

Small Multi-Object Tracking (SMOT) is particularly challenging when targets occupy only a few dozen pixels, rendering detection and appearance-based association unreliable. Building on the success of the MVA2023 SOD4SB challenge, this paper…

Object detection from images captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is becoming increasingly useful. Despite the great success of the generic object detection methods trained on ground-to-ground images, a huge performance drop is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zhenyu Wu , Karthik Suresh , Priya Narayanan , Hongyu Xu , Heesung Kwon , Zhangyang Wang

The vision of unmanned aerial vehicles is very significant for UAV-related applications such as search and rescue, landing on a moving platform, etc. In this work, we have developed an integrated system for the UAV landing on the moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Kangcheng Liu

Multi-view multi-object tracking (MVMOT) has found widespread applications in intelligent transportation, surveillance systems, and urban management. However, existing studies rarely address genuinely free-viewpoint MVMOT systems, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xiaohe Li , Pengfei Li , Zide Fan , Ying Geng , Fangli Mou , Haohua Wu , Yunping Ge

Detection of small-sized targets is of paramount importance in many aerial vision-based applications. The commonly deployed low cost unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for aerial scene analysis are highly resource constrained in nature. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Murari Mandal , Manal Shah , Prashant Meena , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are crucial in Search and Rescue (SAR) missions due to their ability to monitor vast maritime areas. However, small objects often remain difficult to detect from high altitudes due to low object-to-background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sakib Ahmed , Oscar Pizarro

3D Single Object Tracking (SOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision and plays a critical role in applications like autonomous driving. However, existing algorithms often involve complex designs and multiple loss functions, making model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yuxiang Yang , Yingqi Deng , Mian Pan , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jing Zhang

The ability to detect and track objects in the visual world is a crucial skill for any intelligent agent, as it is a necessary precursor to any object-level reasoning process. Moreover, it is important that agents learn to track objects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Eric Crawford , Joelle Pineau