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Mainstream visual object tracking frameworks predominantly rely on template matching paradigms. Their performance heavily depends on the quality of template features, which becomes increasingly challenging to maintain in complex scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Meng Zhou , Jiadong Xie , Mingsheng Xu

Tracking a point through a video can be a challenging task due to uncertainty arising from visual obfuscations, such as appearance changes and occlusions. Although current state-of-the-art discriminative models excel in regressing long-term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mattie Tesfaldet , Adam W. Harley , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Christopher Pal

This report introduces an improved method for the Tracking Any Point~(TAP), focusing on monitoring physical surfaces in video footage. Despite their success with short-sequence scenarios, TAP methods still face performance degradation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yuxuan Zhang , Pengsong Niu , Kun Yu , Qingguo Chen , Yang Yang

Compared to regular cameras, Dynamic Vision Sensors or Event Cameras can output compact visual data based on a change in the intensity in each pixel location asynchronously. In this paper, we study the application of current image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Masoud Dayani Najafabadi , Mohammad Reza Ahmadzadeh

Simultaneous Localization & Mapping (SLAM) is the process of building a mutual relationship between localization and mapping of the subject in its surrounding environment. With the help of different sensors, various types of SLAM systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Rushmian Annoy Wadud , Wei Sun

Tracking any point (TAP) is a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision, requiring high precision and long-term motion reasoning. Recent attempts to combine RGB frames and event streams have shown promise, yet they typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jiaxiong Liu , Zhen Tan , Jinpu Zhang , Yi Zhou , Hui Shen , Xieyuanli Chen , Dewen Hu

In dynamic environments, performance of visual SLAM techniques can be impaired by visual features taken from moving objects. One solution is to identify those objects so that their visual features can be removed for localization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Jonathan Vincent , Mathieu Labbé , Jean-Samuel Lauzon , François Grondin , Pier-Marc Comtois-Rivet , François Michaud

We propose ProTracker, a novel framework for accurate and robust long-term dense tracking of arbitrary points in videos. Previous methods relying on global cost volumes effectively handle large occlusions and scene changes but lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tingyang Zhang , Chen Wang , Zhiyang Dou , Qingzhe Gao , Jiahui Lei , Baoquan Chen , Lingjie Liu

We propose a new method to estimate the 6-dof trajectory of a flying object such as a quadrotor UAV within a 3D airspace monitored using multiple fixed ground cameras. It is based on a new structure from motion formulation for the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Artem Rozantsev , Sudipta N. Sinha , Debadeepta Dey , Pascal Fua

Estimating camera pose in dynamic environments is a critical challenge, as most visual SLAM and SfM methods assume static scenes. While recent dynamic-aware methods exist, they are often not unified: semantic-based approaches are brittle,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jianhao Zheng , Liyuan Zhu , Zihan Zhu , Iro Armeni

We consider the problem of simultaneously estimating a dense depth map and camera pose for a large set of images of an indoor scene. While classical SfM pipelines rely on a two-step approach where cameras are first estimated using a bundle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Benjamin Graham , David Novotny

Recent studies on motion estimation have advocated an optimized motion representation that is globally consistent across the entire video, preferably for every pixel. This is challenging as a uniform representation may not account for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Rui Li , Dong Liu

In dynamic scenes, both localization and mapping in visual SLAM face significant challenges. In recent years, numerous outstanding research works have proposed effective solutions for the localization problem. However, there has been a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Xinggang Hu

In this paper we present DOT (Dynamic Object Tracking), a front-end that added to existing SLAM systems can significantly improve their robustness and accuracy in highly dynamic environments. DOT combines instance segmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Irene Ballester , Alejandro Fontan , Javier Civera , Klaus H. Strobl , Rudolph Triebel

Video segmentation is essential for advancing robotics and autonomous driving, particularly in open-world settings where continuous perception and object association across video frames are critical. While the Segment Anything Model (SAM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Pinxue Guo , Zixu Zhao , Jianxiong Gao , Chongruo Wu , Tong He , Zheng Zhang , Tianjun Xiao , Wenqiang Zhang

Structure-from-motion (SfM) largely relies on feature tracking. In image sequences, if disjointed tracks caused by objects moving in and out of the field of view, occasional occlusion, or image noise, are not handled well, corresponding SfM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Guofeng Zhang , Haomin Liu , Zilong Dong , Jiaya Jia , Tien-Tsin Wong , Hujun Bao

Point-pixel registration between LiDAR point clouds and camera images is a fundamental yet challenging task in autonomous driving and robotic perception. A key difficulty lies in the modality gap between unstructured point clouds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yu Han , Zhiwei Huang , Yanting Zhang , Fangjun Ding , Shen Cai , Rui Fan

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (V-SLAM) methods achieve remarkable performance in static environments, but face challenges in dynamic scenes where moving objects severely affect their core modules. To avoid this, dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Chenghao Xu , Elia Bonetto , Aamir Ahmad

Estimating full-body human motion via sparse tracking signals from head-mounted displays and hand controllers in 3D scenes is crucial to applications in AR/VR. One of the biggest challenges to this task is the one-to-many mapping from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Jiangnan Tang , Jingya Wang , Kaiyang Ji , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu , Ye Shi

Depth estimation aims to predict dense depth maps. In autonomous driving scenes, sparsity of annotations makes the task challenging. Supervised models produce concave objects due to insufficient structural information. They overfit to valid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Jiaqi Li , Yiran Wang , Zihao Huang , Jinghong Zheng , Ke Xian , Zhiguo Cao , Jianming Zhang