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Modality gap between RGB and thermal infrared (TIR) images is a crucial issue but often overlooked in existing RGBT tracking methods. It can be observed that modality gap mainly lies in the image style difference. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Andong Lu , Jiacong Zhao , Chenglong Li , Yun Xiao , Bin Luo

In many visual systems, visual tracking often bases on RGB image sequences, in which some targets are invalid in low-light conditions, and tracking performance is thus affected significantly. Introducing other modalities such as depth and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Chenglong Li , Tianhao Zhu , Lei Liu , Xiaonan Si , Zilin Fan , Sulan Zhai

Tracking objects can be a difficult task in computer vision, especially when faced with challenges such as occlusion, changes in lighting, and motion blur. Recent advances in deep learning have shown promise in challenging these conditions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Abbas Türkoğlu , Erdem Akagündüz

RGB-Thermal (RGBT) tracking aims to achieve robust object localization across diverse environmental conditions by fusing visible and thermal infrared modalities. However, existing RGBT trackers rely solely on initial-frame visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Hao Li , Yuhao Wang , Wenning Hao , Pingping Zhang , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

RGB-Thermal (RGB-T) pedestrian detection aims to locate the pedestrians in RGB-T image pairs to exploit the complementation between the two modalities for improving detection robustness in extreme conditions. Most existing algorithms assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Chao Tian , Zikun Zhou , Yuqing Huang , Gaojun Li , Zhenyu He

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

In recent years, object detection utilizing both visible (RGB) and thermal infrared (IR) imagery has garnered extensive attention and has been widely implemented across a diverse array of fields. By leveraging the complementary properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Tianyi Zhao , Maoxun Yuan , Feng Jiang , Nan Wang , Xingxing Wei

This paper investigates how to perform robust visual tracking in adverse and challenging conditions using complementary visual and thermal infrared data (RGBT tracking). We propose a novel deep network architecture called qualityaware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Yabin Zhu , Chenglong Li , Bin Luo , Jin Tang

Multispectral object detection, utilizing RGB and TIR (thermal infrared) modalities, is widely recognized as a challenging task. It requires not only the effective extraction of features from both modalities and robust fusion strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Chen Zhou , Peng Cheng , Junfeng Fang , Yifan Zhang , Yibo Yan , Xiaojun Jia , Yanyan Xu , Kun Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Multispectral pedestrian detection has gained significant attention in recent years, particularly in autonomous driving applications. To address the challenges posed by adversarial illumination conditions, the combination of thermal and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Arunkumar Rathinam , Leo Pauly , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Wassim Rharbaoui , Anis Kacem , Vincent Gaudillière , Djamila Aouada

RGBT tracking draws increasing attention because its robustness in multi-modal warranting (MMW) scenarios, such as nighttime and adverse weather conditions, where relying on a single sensing modality fails to ensure stable tracking results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zhangyong Tang , Tianyang Xu , Zhenhua Feng , Xuefeng Zhu , Chunyang Cheng , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

The target representation learned by convolutional neural networks plays an important role in Thermal Infrared (TIR) tracking. Currently, most of the top-performing TIR trackers are still employing representations learned by the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jingxian Sun , Lichao Zhang , Yufei Zha , Abel Gonzalez-Garcia , Peng Zhang , Wei Huang , Yanning Zhang

Deep learning-based detection networks have made remarkable progress in autonomous driving systems (ADS). ADS should have reliable performance across a variety of ambient lighting and adverse weather conditions. However, luminance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Shruthi Gowda , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

A common practice in deep learning involves training large neural networks on massive datasets to achieve high accuracy across various domains and tasks. While this approach works well in many application areas, it often fails drastically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Heitor Rapela Medeiros , Masih Aminbeidokhti , Fidel Guerrero Pena , David Latortue , Eric Granger , Marco Pedersoli

RGB-Thermal (RGBT) tracking aims to exploit visible and thermal infrared modalities for robust all-weather object tracking. However, existing RGBT trackers struggle to resolve modality discrepancies, which poses great challenges for robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hao Li , Yuhao Wang , Xiantao Hu , Wenning Hao , Pingping Zhang , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

In real-world scenarios, using multiple modalities like visible (RGB) and infrared (IR) can greatly improve the performance of a predictive task such as object detection (OD). Multimodal learning is a common way to leverage these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Heitor R. Medeiros , David Latortue , Eric Granger , Marco Pedersoli

Thermal infrared (TIR) image has proven effectiveness in providing temperature cues to the RGB features for multispectral pedestrian detection. Most existing methods directly inject the TIR modality into the RGB-based framework or simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Xiaoxiao Yang , Yeqian Qiang , Huijie Zhu , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Low-quality modalities contain not only a lot of noisy information but also some discriminative features in RGBT tracking. However, the potentials of low-quality modalities are not well explored in existing RGBT tracking algorithms. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Andong Lu , Cun Qian , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang , Liang Wang

Multimodal sensing has proven valuable for visual tracking, as different sensor types offer unique strengths in handling one specific challenging scene where object appearance varies. While a generalist model capable of leveraging all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yuedong Tan , Zongwei Wu , Yuqian Fu , Zhuyun Zhou , Guolei Sun , Eduard Zamfi , Chao Ma , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Multispectral pedestrian detection is capable of adapting to insufficient illumination conditions by leveraging color-thermal modalities. On the other hand, it is still lacking of in-depth insights on how to fuse the two modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Kailai Zhou , Linsen Chen , Xun Cao