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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

UAV tracking can be widely applied in scenarios such as disaster rescue, environmental monitoring, and logistics transportation. However, existing UAV tracking methods predominantly emphasize speed and lack exploration in semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xinyu Zhou , Tongxin Pan , Lingyi Hong , Pinxue Guo , Haijing Guo , Zhaoyu Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Wenqiang Zhang

Visual Language Tracking (VLT) enhances tracking by mitigating the limitations of relying solely on the visual modality, utilizing high-level semantic information through language. This integration of the language enables more advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Xuchen Li , Shiyu Hu , Xiaokun Feng , Dailing Zhang , Meiqi Wu , Jing Zhang , Kaiqi Huang

Designed for tracking user goals in dialogues, a dialogue state tracker is an essential component in a dialogue system. However, the research of dialogue state tracking has largely been limited to unimodality, in which slots and slot values…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Hung Le , Nancy F. Chen , Steven C. H. Hoi

Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) extends conventional multi-object tracking (MOT) by introducing natural language references for multi-modal fusion tracking. RMOT benchmarks only describe the object's appearance, relative positions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Weiyi Lv , Ning Zhang , Hanyang Sun , Haoran Jiang , Kai Zhao , Jing Xiao , Dan Zeng

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) has traditionally focused on a few specific categories, restricting its applicability to real-world scenarios involving diverse objects. Open-Vocabulary Multi-Object Tracking (OVMOT) addresses this by enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zekun Qian , Wei Feng , Ruize Han , Junhui Hou

Single object tracking aims to locate one specific target in video sequences, given its initial state. Classical trackers rely solely on visual cues, restricting their ability to handle challenges such as appearance variations, ambiguity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jiawei Ge , Xiangmei Chen , Jiuxin Cao , Xuelin Zhu , Bo Liu

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is evolving from geometric localization to Semantic MOT (SMOT) to answer complex relational queries, yet progress is hindered by semantic data scarcity and a structural disconnect between tracking architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Pan Liao , Feng Yang , Di Wu , Jinwen Yu , Yuhua Zhu , Wenhui Zhao , Dingwen Zhang

Multimodal Visual Object Tracking (VOT) has recently gained significant attention due to its robustness. Early research focused on fully fine-tuning RGB-based trackers, which was inefficient and lacked generalized representation due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Xiaojun Hou , Jiazheng Xing , Yijie Qian , Yaowei Guo , Shuo Xin , Junhao Chen , Kai Tang , Mengmeng Wang , Zhengkai Jiang , Liang Liu , Yong Liu

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

Vision-Language Tracking (VLT) aims to localize a target in video sequences using a visual template and language description. While textual cues enhance tracking potential, current datasets typically contain much more image data than text,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 X. Feng , D. Zhang , S. Hu , X. Li , M. Wu , J. Zhang , X. Chen , K. Huang

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision, aiming to track targets across video frames. Existing MOT methods perform well in general visual scenes, but face significant challenges and limitations when extended to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sijia Chen , Zihan Zhou , Yanqiu Yu , En Yu , Wenbing Tao

In this paper we address the problem of tracking non-rigid objects whose local appearance and motion changes as a function of time. This class of objects includes dynamic textures such as steam, fire, smoke, water, etc., as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-04-23 Rizwan Chaudhry , Gregory Hager , Rene Vidal

In this paper, we introduce a novel benchmark, dubbed VastTrack, towards facilitating the development of more general visual tracking via encompassing abundant classes and videos. VastTrack possesses several attractive properties: (1) Vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Liang Peng , Junyuan Gao , Xinran Liu , Weihong Li , Shaohua Dong , Zhipeng Zhang , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) has traditionally focused on estimating trajectories of all objects in a video, without selectively reasoning about user-specified targets under semantic instructions. In this work, we introduce a query-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Tajamul Ashraf , Tavaheed Tariq , Sonia Yadav , Abrar Ul Riyaz , Wasif Tak , Moloud Abdar , Janibul Bashir

Multimodal semantic cues, such as textual descriptions, have shown strong potential in enhancing target perception for tracking. However, existing methods rely on static textual descriptions from large language models, which lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Yukuan Zhang , Jiarui Zhao , Shangqing Nie , Jin Kuang , Shengsheng Wang

Recently, template-based trackers have become the leading tracking algorithms with promising performance in terms of efficiency and accuracy. However, the correlation operation between query feature and the given template only exploits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Pengfei Zhu , Hongtao Yu , Kaihua Zhang , Yu Wang , Shuai Zhao , Lei Wang , Tianzhu Zhang , Qinghua Hu

Object modeling has become a core part of recent tracking frameworks. Current popular tackers use Transformer attention to extract the template feature separately or interactively with the search region. However, separate template learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Yidong Cai , Jie Liu , Jie Tang , Gangshan Wu

Online contextual reasoning and association across consecutive video frames are critical to perceive instances in visual tracking. However, most current top-performing trackers persistently lean on sparse temporal relationships between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yaozong Zheng , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Zhiyi Mo , Shengping Zhang , Xianxian Li

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