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Multi-modal object tracking integrates auxiliary modalities such as depth, thermal infrared, event flow, and language to provide additional information beyond RGB images, showing great potential in improving tracking stabilization in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shiyu Xuan , Zechao Li , Jinhui Tang

Leveraging multiple sensors is crucial for robust semantic perception in autonomous driving, as each sensor type has complementary strengths and weaknesses. However, existing sensor fusion methods often treat sensors uniformly across all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Tim Broedermann , Christos Sakaridis , Yuqian Fu , Luc Van Gool

Single-modality tracking (RGB-only) struggles under low illumination, weather, and occlusion. Multimodal tracking addresses this by combining complementary cues. While Vision Transformer-based trackers achieve strong accuracy, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Mahdi Falaki , Maria A. Amer

Existing RGB-T tracking algorithms have made remarkable progress by leveraging the global interaction capability and extensive pre-trained models of the Transformer architecture. Nonetheless, these methods mainly adopt imagepair appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Simiao Lai , Chang Liu , Jiawen Zhu , Ben Kang , Yang Liu , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

Effective monitoring of manufacturing processes is crucial for maintaining product quality and operational efficiency. Modern manufacturing environments generate vast amounts of multimodal data, including visual imagery from various…

We propose a universal video-level modality-awareness tracking model with online dense temporal token learning (called {\modaltracker}). It is designed to support various tracking tasks, including RGB, RGB+Thermal, RGB+Depth, and RGB+Event,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Yaozong Zheng , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Shengping Zhang , Guorong Li , Xianxian Li , Rongrong Ji

The task of RGBT tracking aims to take the complementary advantages from visible spectrum and thermal infrared data to achieve robust visual tracking, and receives more and more attention in recent years. Existing works focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Chenglong Li , Andong Lu , Aihua Zheng , Zhengzheng Tu , Jin Tang

Visual object tracking, which is primarily based on visible light image sequences, encounters numerous challenges in complicated scenarios, such as low light conditions, high dynamic ranges, and background clutter. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Hongze Sun , Rui Liu , Wuque Cai , Jun Wang , Yue Wang , Huajin Tang , Yan Cui , Dezhong Yao , Daqing Guo

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

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision with critical applications in autonomous driving and robotics. Multimodal MOT that integrates visible light and thermal infrared information is particularly essential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Weiran Li , Yeqiang Liu , Yijie Wei , Mina Han , Qiannan Guo , Zhenbo Li

Graph machine learning has made significant strides in recent years, yet the integration of visual information with graph structure and its potential for improving performance in downstream tasks remains an underexplored area. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jing Zhu , Yuhang Zhou , Shengyi Qian , Zhongmou He , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Danai Koutra

The exponential growth of video content necessitates effective video summarization to efficiently extract key information from long videos. However, current approaches struggle to fully comprehend complex videos, primarily because they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sumin Kim , Hyemin Jeong , Mingu Kang , Yejin Kim , Yoori Oh , Joonseok Lee

Image matching for both cross-view and cross-modality plays a critical role in multimodal perception. In practice, the modality gap caused by different imaging systems/styles poses great challenges to the matching task. Existing works try…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jiangwei Ren , Xingyu Jiang , Zizhuo Li , Dingkang Liang , Xin Zhou , Xiang Bai

Due to the challenges of processing temporal information, most trackers depend solely on visual discriminability and overlook the unique temporal coherence of video data. In this paper, we propose a lightweight and plug-and-play motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jie Zhao , Xin Chen , Yongsheng Yuan , Michael Felsberg , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

Autonomous driving holds great promise in addressing traffic safety concerns by leveraging artificial intelligence and sensor technology. Multi-Object Tracking plays a critical role in ensuring safer and more efficient navigation through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Lei Cheng , Arindam Sengupta , Siyang Cao

Pre-trained video large language models excel at visual reasoning. However, they struggle when videos arrive with auxiliary streams, such as audio, depth map, or dense temporal evidence. In such a scenario, uniform fusion induces modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Bonan Ding , Umair Nawaz , Ufaq Khan , Abdelrahman M. Shaker , Muhammad Haris Khan , Jiale Cao , Jin Xie , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Learning multimodal representations involves integrating information from multiple heterogeneous sources of data. It is a challenging yet crucial area with numerous real-world applications in multimedia, affective computing, robotics,…

In this study, we propose a novel RGB-T tracking framework by jointly modeling both appearance and motion cues. First, to obtain a robust appearance model, we develop a novel late fusion method to infer the fusion weight maps of both RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Pengyu Zhang , Jie Zhao , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Xiaoyun Yang

Many state-of-the-art RGB-T trackers have achieved remarkable results through modality fusion. However, these trackers often either overlook temporal information or fail to fully utilize it, resulting in an ineffective balance between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Zhirong Zeng , Xiaotao Liu , Meng Sun , Hongyu Wang , Jing Liu

Current optical flow methods exploit the stable appearance of frame (or RGB) data to establish robust correspondences across time. Event cameras, on the other hand, provide high-temporal-resolution motion cues and excel in challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Qianang Zhou , Junhui Hou , Meiyi Yang , Yongjian Deng , Youfu Li , Junlin Xiong