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This paper addresses the problem of target search and tracking using a fleet of cooperating UAVs evolving in some unknown region of interest containing an a priori unknown number of moving ground targets. Each drone is equipped with an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Maxime Zagar , Luc Meyer , Michel Kieffer , Hélène Piet-Lahanier

Precisely detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) plays a critical role in UAV defense systems. Deep learning is widely adopted for UAV object detection whereas researches on this topic are limited by the amount of dataset and small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Chen Rui , Guo Youwei , Zheng Huafei , Jiang Hongyu

This paper presents a fast and modular framework for Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) based on the Markov descision process (MDP) tracking-by-detection paradigm. It is designed to allow its various functional components to be replaced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Abhineet Singh

Accurate localization of maritime targets by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) remains challenging in GPS-denied environments. UAVs equipped with gimballed electro-optical sensors are typically used to localize targets, however, reliance on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Alfonso Sciacchitano , Liraz Mudrik , Sean Kragelund , Isaac Kaminer

UAV tracking faces significant challenges in real-world scenarios, such as small-size targets and occlusions, which limit the performance of RGB-based trackers. Multispectral images (MSI), which capture additional spectral information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Haolin Qin , Tingfa Xu , Tianhao Li , Zhenxiang Chen , Tao Feng , Jianan Li

Multi-modal object tracking (MMOT) is an emerging field that combines data from various modalities, \eg vision (RGB), depth, thermal infrared, event, language and audio, to estimate the state of an arbitrary object in a video sequence. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Chunhui Zhang , Li Liu , Hao Wen , Xi Zhou , Yanfeng Wang

Multi-Camera Multi-Target Tracking (MCMT) is a computer vision technique that involves tracking multiple targets simultaneously across multiple cameras. MCMT in urban traffic visual analysis faces great challenges due to the complex and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Jincheng Lu , Xipeng Yang , Jin Ye , Yifu Zhang , Zhikang Zou , Wei Zhang , Xiao Tan

Small object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery is challenging, mainly due to scale variation, structural detail degradation, and limited computational resources. In high-altitude scenarios, fine-grained features are further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xuecheng Bai , Yuxiang Wang , Chuanzhi Xu , Boyu Hu , Kang Han , Ruijie Pan , Xiaowei Niu , Xiaotian Guan , Liqiang Fu , Pengfei Ye

To track the 3D locations and trajectories of the other traffic participants at any given time, modern autonomous vehicles are equipped with multiple cameras that cover the vehicle's full surroundings. Yet, camera-based 3D object tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Tobias Fischer , Yung-Hsu Yang , Suryansh Kumar , Min Sun , Fisher Yu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) object detection plays a vital role in applications such as environmental monitoring and urban security. To improve robustness, recent studies have explored multimodal detection by fusing visible (RGB) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Liu Zongzhen , Luo Hui , Wang Zhixing , Wei Yuxing , Zuo Haorui , Zhang Jianlin

The vision of unmanned aerial vehicles is very significant for UAV-related applications such as search and rescue, landing on a moving platform, etc. In this work, we have developed an integrated system for the UAV landing on the moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Kangcheng Liu

Multi-object tracking (MOT) enables mobile robots to perform well-informed motion planning and navigation by localizing surrounding objects in 3D space and time. Existing methods rely on depth sensors (e.g., LiDAR) to detect and track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Aleksandr Kim , Aljoša Ošep , Laura Leal-Taixé

Head detection and tracking are essential for downstream tasks, but current methods often require large computational budgets, which increase latencies and ties up resources (e.g., processors, memory, and bandwidth). To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jisu Kim , Alex Mattingly , Eung-Joo Lee , Benjamin S. Riggan

Accurate perception of the marine environment through robust multi-object tracking (MOT) is essential for ensuring safe vessel navigation and effective maritime surveillance. However, the complicated maritime environment often causes camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shengyu Tang , Zeyuan Lu , Jiazhi Dong , Changdong Yu , Xiaoyu Wang , Yaohui Lyu , Weihao Xia

Multi-object tracking (MOT) methods have seen a significant boost in performance recently, due to strong interest from the research community and steadily improving object detection methods. The majority of tracking methods follow the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Chang Won Lee , Steven L. Waslander

Multiple object tracking (MOT) is a crucial task in computer vision society. However, most tracking-by-detection MOT methods, with available detected bounding boxes, cannot effectively handle static, slow-moving and fast-moving camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Jiarui Cai , Yizhou Wang , Haotian Zhang , Hung-Min Hsu , Chengqian Ma , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) and trajectory prediction are two critical components in modern 3D perception systems that require accurate modeling of multi-agent interaction. We hypothesize that it is beneficial to unify both tasks under one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Xinshuo Weng , Ye Yuan , Kris Kitani

Object detection from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is challenged by severe ego-motion, camera jitter, and large scale variations. While modern detectors perform well on static images, their direct application to UAV video often fails,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Liuyang Wang , Feitian Zhang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) enables autonomous vehicles to continuously perceive dynamic objects, supplying essential temporal cues for prediction, behavior understanding, and safe planning. However, conventional tracking-by-detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yan Gong , Mengjun Chen , Hao Liu , Gao Yongsheng , Lei Yang , Naibang Wang , Ziying Song , Haoqun Ma

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