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Object tracking is divided into single-object tracking (SOT) and multi-object tracking (MOT). MOT aims to maintain the identities of multiple objects across a series of continuous video sequences. In recent years, MOT has made rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Yukuan Zhang , Yunhua Jia , Housheng Xie , Mengzhen Li , Limin Zhao , Yang Yang , Shan Zhao

We propose a method for multi-object tracking and segmentation based on a novel memory-based mechanism to associate tracklets. The proposed tracker, MeNToS, addresses particularly the long-term data association problem, when objects are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Mehdi Miah , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Nicolas Saunier

Recent progresses in model-free single object tracking (SOT) algorithms have largely inspired applying SOT to \emph{multi-object tracking} (MOT) to improve the robustness as well as relieving dependency on external detector. However, SOT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Peng Chu , Heng Fan , Chiu C Tan , Haibin Ling

Detection of small-sized targets is of paramount importance in many aerial vision-based applications. The commonly deployed low cost unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for aerial scene analysis are highly resource constrained in nature. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Murari Mandal , Manal Shah , Prashant Meena , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

Autonomous-driving perception systems require robust Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) to operate reliably in dynamic environments. MOT maintains consistent object identities across frames while preserving spatial accuracy. Recent foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Diogo Mendonça , Tiago Barros , Cristiano Premebida , Urbano J. Nunes

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking is critical for applications like surveillance, search-and-rescue, and autonomous navigation. However, the high-speed movement of UAVs and targets introduces unique challenges, including real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 You Wu , Xucheng Wang , Dan Zeng , Hengzhou Ye , Xiaolan Xie , Qijun Zhao , Shuiwang Li

We propose a metadata-aware self-supervised learning~(SSL)~framework useful for fine-grained classification and ecological mapping of bird species around the world. Our framework unifies two SSL strategies: Contrastive Learning~(CL) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Srikumar Sastry , Subash Khanal , Aayush Dhakal , Di Huang , Nathan Jacobs

The increasing deployment of small drones as tools of conflict and disruption has amplified their threat, highlighting the urgent need for effective anti-drone measures. However, the compact size of most drones presents a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Hanfang Liang , Jinming Hu , Xiaohuan Ling , Bing Wang

The growing proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) poses major challenges for reliable airspace surveillance, as drones are typically small, have low radar cross-sections, and often move slowly in cluttered environments. These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Anders Malthe Westerkam , Jakob Möderl , Erik Leitinger , Troels Pedersen

Classically, visual object tracking involves following a target object throughout a given video, and it provides us the motion trajectory of the object. However, for many practical applications, this output is often insufficient since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Maximilian Filtenborg , Efstratios Gavves , Deepak Gupta

Without manually annotated identities, unsupervised multi-object trackers are inferior to learning reliable feature embeddings. It causes the similarity-based inter-frame association stage also be error-prone, where an uncertainty problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Kai Liu , Sheng Jin , Zhihang Fu , Ze Chen , Rongxin Jiang , Jieping Ye

The high temporal variation of the point clouds is the key challenge of 3D single-object tracking (3D SOT). Existing approaches rely on the assumption that the shape variation of the point clouds and the motion of the objects across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Qiao Wu , Kun Sun , Pei An , Mathieu Salzmann , Yanning Zhang , Jiaqi Yang

Despite recent progress in Multiple Object Tracking (MOT), several obstacles such as occlusions, similar objects, and complex scenes remain an open challenge. Meanwhile, a systematic study of the cost-performance tradeoff for the popular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yu-Hsiang Wang , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Ping-Yang Chen , Ming-Ching Chang , Hung Hin So , Xin Li

In the context of multi-object tracking using video synthetic aperture radar (Video SAR), Doppler shifts induced by target motion result in artifacts that are easily mistaken for shadows caused by static occlusions. Moreover, appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Haoxiang Chen , Wei Zhao , Rufei Zhang , Nannan Li , Dongjin Li

This paper presents a new algorithm for autonomous multitarget tracking of resident space objects using optical angles-only measurements from a spaceborne observer. To enable autonomous angles-only navigation of spacecraft swarms, an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Justin Kruger , Simone D'Amico

Recently, Siamese network based trackers have received tremendous interest for their fast tracking speed and high performance. Despite the great success, this tracking framework still suffers from several limitations. First, it cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Anfeng He , Chong Luo , Xinmei Tian , Wenjun Zeng

Multiple object tracking (MOT) from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms requires efficient motion modeling. This is because UAV-MOT faces both local object motion and global camera motion. Motion blur also increases the difficulty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Mufeng Yao , Jinlong Peng , Qingdong He , Bo Peng , Hao Chen , Mingmin Chi , Chao Liu , Jon Atli Benediktsson

Multi-object tracking is a classic field in computer vision. Among them, pedestrian tracking has extremely high application value and has become the most popular research category. Existing methods mainly use motion or appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Teng Fu , Yuwen Chen , Zhuofan Chen , Mengyang Zhao , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

In the recent past, the computer vision community has developed centralized benchmarks for the performance evaluation of a variety of tasks, including generic object and pedestrian detection, 3D reconstruction, optical flow, single-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Laura Leal-Taixé , Anton Milan , Ian Reid , Stefan Roth , Konrad Schindler

Camera traps have become a common tool for wildlife monitoring efforts in ecological research and biodiversity conservation. Wildlife classification models have benefited from the increase in wildlife visual data. These models reach high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mufhumudzi Muthivhi , Jiahao Huo , Fredrik Gustafsson , Terence L. van Zyl