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Multi-object tracking (MOT) has traditionally focused on estimating trajectories of all objects in a video, without selectively reasoning about user-specified targets under semantic instructions. In this work, we introduce a query-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Tajamul Ashraf , Tavaheed Tariq , Sonia Yadav , Abrar Ul Riyaz , Wasif Tak , Moloud Abdar , Janibul Bashir

In recent years, deep-learning-based visual object trackers have been studied thoroughly, but handling occlusions and/or rapid motion of the target remains challenging. In this work, we argue that conditioning on the natural language (NL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Qi Feng , Vitaly Ablavsky , Qinxun Bai , Guorong Li , Stan Sclaroff

Open-vocabulary multi-object tracking (OVMOT) represents a critical new challenge involving the detection and tracking of diverse object categories in videos, encompassing both seen categories (base classes) and unseen categories (novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zekun Qian , Ruize Han , Junhui Hou , Linqi Song , Wei Feng

Vision-Language MOT is a crucial tracking problem and has drawn increasing attention recently. It aims to track objects based on human language commands, replacing the traditional use of templates or pre-set information from training sets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yunhao Li , Xiaoqiong Liu , Luke Liu , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang

Existing visual tracking methods typically take an image patch as the reference of the target to perform tracking. However, a single image patch cannot provide a complete and precise concept of the target object as images are limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Xin Li , Yuqing Huang , Zhenyu He , Yaowei Wang , Huchuan Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Visual tracking has made significant improvements in the past few decades. Most existing state-of-the-art trackers 1) merely aim for performance in ideal conditions while overlooking the real-world conditions; 2) adopt the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ziang Cao , Ziyuan Huang , Liang Pan , Shiwei Zhang , Ziwei Liu , Changhong Fu

Refining visual representations by eliminating their internal feature-level redundancy is crucial for simultaneously optimizing the performance and computational cost of models in visual tracking. To enhance their performance, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Weijing Wu , Qihua Liang , Bineng Zhong , Haiying Xia , Zhiyi Mo , Shuxiang Song

Recently, several studies have shown that utilizing contextual information to perceive target states is crucial for object tracking. They typically capture context by incorporating multiple video frames. However, these naive frame-context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Chenlong Xu , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Yaozong Zheng , Guorong Li , Shuxiang Song

Open-vocabulary Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) aims to generalize trackers to novel categories not in the training set. Currently, the best-performing methods are mainly based on pure appearance matching. Due to the complexity of motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Siyuan Li , Lei Ke , Yung-Hsu Yang , Luigi Piccinelli , Mattia Segù , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool

Text tracking is to track multiple texts in a video,and construct a trajectory for each text. Existing methodstackle this task by utilizing the tracking-by-detection frame-work, i.e., detecting the text instances in each frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Yuzhe Gao , Xing Li , Jiajian Zhang , Yu Zhou , Dian Jin , Jing Wang , Shenggao Zhu , Xiang Bai

Visual Language Tracking (VLT) enhances single object tracking (SOT) by integrating natural language descriptions from a video, for the precise tracking of a specified object. By leveraging high-level semantic information, VLT guides object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xuchen Li , Xiaokun Feng , Shiyu Hu , Meiqi Wu , Dailing Zhang , Jing Zhang , Kaiqi Huang

Single object tracking aims to locate the target object in a video sequence according to the state specified by different modal references, including the initial bounding box (BBOX), natural language (NL), or both (NL+BBOX). Due to the gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yinchao Ma , Yuyang Tang , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Jinpeng Zhang , Mengxue Kang

Contextual reasoning with constraints is crucial for enhancing temporal consistency in cross-frame modeling for visual tracking. However, mainstream tracking algorithms typically associate context by merely stacking historical information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Fansheng Zeng , Bineng Zhong , Haiying Xia , Yufei Tan , Xiantao Hu , Liangtao Shi , Shuxiang Song

Online contextual reasoning and association across consecutive video frames are critical to perceive instances in visual tracking. However, most current top-performing trackers persistently lean on sparse temporal relationships between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yaozong Zheng , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Zhiyi Mo , Shengping Zhang , Xianxian Li

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

Multimodal vision-language (VL) learning has noticeably pushed the tendency toward generic intelligence owing to emerging large foundation models. However, tracking, as a fundamental vision problem, surprisingly enjoys less bonus from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Mingzhe Guo , Zhipeng Zhang , Liping Jing , Haibin Ling , Heng Fan

The explosive growth of textual data over time presents a significant challenge in uncovering evolving themes and trends. Existing dynamic topic modeling techniques, while powerful, often exist in fragmented pipelines that lack robust…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Suman Adhya , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal

Accurate point tracking in surgical environments remains challenging due to complex visual conditions, including smoke occlusion, specular reflections, and tissue deformation. While existing surgical tracking datasets provide coordinate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rulin Zhou , Wenlong He , An Wang , Jianhang Zhang , Xuanhui Zeng , Xi Zhang , Chaowei Zhu , Haijun Hu , Hongliang Ren

Tracking many vehicles in wide coverage aerial imagery is crucial for understanding events in a large field of view. Most approaches aim to associate detections from frame differencing into tracks. However, slow or stopped vehicles result…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Bor-Jeng Chen , Gerard Medioni

Video temporal grounding is an emerging topic aiming to identify specific clips within videos. In addition to pre-trained video models, contemporary methods utilize pre-trained vision-language models (VLM) to capture detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Yubin Wang , Xinyang Jiang , De Cheng , Dongsheng Li , Cairong Zhao