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Multiple object tracking (MOT) has been successfully investigated in computer vision. However, MOT for the videos captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is still challenging due to small object size, blurred object appearance, and very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Mufeng Yao , Jiaqi Wang , Jinlong Peng , Mingmin Chi , Chao Liu

Tracking small, agile multi-objects (SMOT), such as birds, from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) perspective is a highly challenging computer vision task. The difficulty stems from three main sources: the extreme scarcity of target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xiang Yu , Xinyao Liu , Guang Liang

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

With the proliferation of low altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), visual multi-object tracking is becoming a critical security technology, demanding significant robustness even in complex environmental conditions. However, tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Tianyang Xu , Jinjie Gu , Xuefeng Zhu , XiaoJun Wu , Josef Kittler

Although recent Siamese network-based trackers have achieved impressive perceptual accuracy for single object tracking in LiDAR point clouds, they usually utilized heavy correlation operations to capture category-level characteristics only,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Xiantong Zhao , Yinan Han , Shengjing Tian , Jian Liu , Xiuping Liu

Underwater imaging is fundamentally challenging due to wavelength-dependent light attenuation, strong scattering from suspended particles, turbidity-induced blur, and non-uniform illumination. These effects impair standard cameras and make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Nick Truong , Pritam P. Karmokar , William J. Beksi

Accurate 3D volumetric mapping is critical for autonomous underwater vehicles operating in obstacle-rich environments. Vision-based perception provides high-resolution data but fails in turbid conditions, while sonar is robust to lighting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ivana Collado-Gonzalez , John McConnell , Brendan Englot

Most of Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) approaches compute individual target features for two subtasks: estimating target-wise motions and conducting pair-wise Re-Identification (Re-ID). Because of the indefinite number of targets among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Jimuyang Zhang , Sanping Zhou , Xin Chang , Fangbin Wan , Jinjun Wang , Yang Wu , Dong Huang

Standardized benchmarks have been crucial in pushing the performance of computer vision algorithms, especially since the advent of deep learning. Although leaderboards should not be over-claimed, they often provide the most objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Patrick Dendorfer , Aljoša Ošep , Anton Milan , Konrad Schindler , Daniel Cremers , Ian Reid , Stefan Roth , Laura Leal-Taixé

In 3D point cloud object tracking, the motion-centric methods have emerged as a promising avenue due to its superior performance in modeling inter-frame motion. However, existing two-stage motion-based approaches suffer from fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sifan Zhou , Jiahao Nie , Ziyu Zhao , Yichao Cao , Xiaobo Lu

We present the Caltech Fish Counting Dataset (CFC), a large-scale dataset for detecting, tracking, and counting fish in sonar videos. We identify sonar videos as a rich source of data for advancing low signal-to-noise computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Justin Kay , Peter Kulits , Suzanne Stathatos , Siqi Deng , Erik Young , Sara Beery , Grant Van Horn , Pietro Perona

Underwater target localization uses real-time sensory measurements to estimate the position of underwater objects of interest, providing critical feedback information for underwater robots. While acoustic sensing is the most acknowledged…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Mingyang Yang , Zeyu Sha , Feitian Zhang

Recent research efforts in the Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) community have focused on developing sonar systems that adapt to their acoustic environment, referred to as "cognitive" sonars. Cognitive active sonar systems utilize principles of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 David A. Hague

Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) aims to achieve precise object detection and tracking through natural language instructions, representing a fundamental capability for intelligent robotic systems. However, current RMOT research…

In this paper, we present LaSOT, a high-quality benchmark for Large-scale Single Object Tracking. LaSOT consists of 1,400 sequences with more than 3.5M frames in total. Each frame in these sequences is carefully and manually annotated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Heng Fan , Liting Lin , Fan Yang , Peng Chu , Ge Deng , Sijia Yu , Hexin Bai , Yong Xu , Chunyuan Liao , Haibin Ling

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in computer vision has made significant advancements, yet tracking small fish in underwater environments presents unique challenges due to complex 3D motions and data noise. Traditional single-view MOT models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Chaim Chai Elchik , Fatemeh Karimi Nejadasl , Seyed Sahand Mohammadi Ziabari , Ali Mohammed Mansoor Alsahag

The widespread application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has raised serious public safety and privacy concerns, making UAV perception crucial for anti-UAV tasks. However, existing UAV tracking datasets predominantly feature conspicuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Bin Xie , Congxuan Zhang , Fagan Wang , Peng Liu , Feng Lu , Zhen Chen , Weiming Hu

Cost-effective localization methods for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) navigation are key for ocean monitoring and data collection at high resolution in time and space. Algorithmic solutions suitable for real-time processing that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Ellen Davenport , Khoa Nguyen , Junsu Jang , Clair Ma , Sean Fish , Luc Lenain , Florian Meyer

Visual object tracking, which is representing a major interest in image processing field, has facilitated numerous real world applications. Among them, equipping unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with real time robust visual trackers for all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Bowen Li , Changhong Fu , Fangqiang Ding , Junjie Ye , Fuling Lin

This article concerns the challenge of reliable broadband passive sonar target detection and tracking in complex acoustic environments. Addressing this challenge is becoming increasingly crucial for safeguarding underwater infrastructure,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Daniel Bossér , Magnus Lundberg Nordenvaad , Gustaf Hendeby , Isaac Skog