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Accurately distinguishing each object is a fundamental goal of Multi-object tracking (MOT) algorithms. However, achieving this goal still remains challenging, primarily due to: (i) For crowded scenes with occluded objects, the high overlap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Jiapeng Wu , Yichen Liu

Tracking multiple time-varying states based on heterogeneous observations is a key problem in many applications. Here, we develop a statistical model and algorithm for tracking an unknown number of targets based on the probabilistic fusion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-10 Domenico Gaglione , Paolo Braca , Giovanni Soldi , Florian Meyer , Franz Hlawatsch , Moe Z. Win

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims at estimating bounding boxes and identities of objects in videos. Most methods can be roughly classified as tracking-by-detection and joint-detection-association paradigms. Although the latter has elicited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Run Luo , JinLin Wei , Qiao Lin

The challenge of 3D multi-object tracking is achieving robustness in real-world applications, for example under adverse conditions and maintaining consistency as distance increases. To overcome these challenges, sensor fusion approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Bingxue Xu , Emil Hedemalm , Ajinkya Khoche , Patric Jensfelt

Models of discrete-valued outcomes are easily misspecified if the data exhibit zero-inflation, overdispersion or contamination. Without additional knowledge about the existence and nature of this misspecification, model inference and…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-27 Jeremias Knoblauch , Lara Vomfell

Object detection on Lidar point cloud data is a promising technology for autonomous driving and robotics which has seen a significant rise in performance and accuracy during recent years. Particularly uncertainty estimation is a crucial…

Conventional multi-object tracking (MOT) systems are predominantly designed for pedestrian tracking and often exhibit limited generalization to other object categories. This paper presents a generalized tracking framework capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Hamidreza Hashempoor , Yu Dong Hwang

Temporal forward-tracking has been the dominant approach for multi-object segmentation and tracking (MOTS). However, a novel time-symmetric tracking methodology has recently been introduced for the detection, segmentation, and tracking of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Gergely Szabó , Zsófia Molnár , András Horváth

Offline 3D multi-object tracking (MOT) is a critical component of the 4D auto-labeling (4DAL) process. It enhances pseudo-labels generated by high-performance detectors through the incorporation of temporal context. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xiaoyu Li , Yitao Wu , Xian Wu , Haolin Zhuo , Lijun Zhao , Lining Sun

While Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) has made substantial advancements, it is limited by heavy reliance on prior knowledge and limited to predefined categories. In contrast, Generic Multiple Object Tracking (GMOT), tracking multiple objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Duy Le Dinh Anh , Kim Hoang Tran , Ngan Hoang Le

Recent works in multiple object tracking use sequence model to calculate the similarity score between the detections and the previous tracklets. However, the forced exposure to ground-truth in the training stage leads to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Tao Hu , Lichao Huang , Han Shen

Joint Detection and Embedding (JDE) trackers have demonstrated excellent performance in Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) tasks by incorporating the extraction of appearance features as auxiliary tasks through embedding Re-Identification task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Yunfei Zhang , Chao Liang , Jin Gao , Zhipeng Zhang , Weiming Hu , Stephen Maybank , Xue Zhou , Liang Li

Bayesian estimation with an explicit transitional prior is required for a tracking algorithm to be embedded in most multi-target tracking frameworks. This paper describes a novel approach capable of tracking maneuvering spacecraft with an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Enrico M. Zucchelli , Brandon A. Jones

3D multiple object tracking (MOT) plays a crucial role in autonomous driving perception. Recent end-to-end query-based trackers simultaneously detect and track objects, which have shown promising potential for the 3D MOT task. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tao Tang , Lijun Zhou , Pengkun Hao , Zihang He , Kalok Ho , Shuo Gu , Zhihui Hao , Haiyang Sun , Kun Zhan , Peng Jia , XianPeng Lang , Xiaodan Liang

Visual Object Tracking (VOT) is a fundamental task with widespread applications in autonomous navigation, surveillance, and maritime robotics. Despite significant advances in generic object tracking, maritime environments continue to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ahsan Baidar Bakht , Muhayy Ud Din , Sajid Javed , Irfan Hussain

When tracking maneuvering targets, model-driven approaches encounter difficulties in comprehensively delineating complex real-world scenarios and are prone to model mismatch when the targets maneuver. Meanwhile, contemporary data-driven…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Shuyang Zhang , Chang Gao , Qingfu Zhang , Tianyi Jia , Hongwei Liu

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) has emerged as a prominent trend across various domains. However, ensuring the quality of the sensing data submitted by mobile users (MUs) remains a complex and challenging problem. To address this challenge, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Jiajie Li , Bo Gu , Shimin Gong , Zhou Su , Mohsen Guizani

This paper proposes a multi-object tracking (MOT) algorithm for traffic monitoring using a drone equipped with optical and thermal cameras. Object detections on the images are obtained using a neural network for each type of camera. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Ángel F. García-Fernández , Jimin Xiao

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) aims to associate multiple objects across video frames and is a challenging vision task due to inherent complexities in the tracking environment. Most existing approaches train and track within a single domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Run Luo , Zikai Song , Longze Chen , Yunshui Li , Min Yang , Wei Yang

Autonomous vehicles need precise knowledge on dynamic objects in their surroundings. Especially in urban areas with many objects and possible occlusions, an infrastructure system based on a multi-sensor setup can provide the required…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Martin Herrmann , Aldi Piroli , Jan Strohbeck , Johannes Müller , Michael Buchholz