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Siamese network-based trackers have shown remarkable success in aerial tracking. Most previous works, however, usually perform template matching only between the initial template and the search region and thus fail to deal with rapidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xincong Liu , Tingfa Xu , Ying Wang , Zhinong Yu , Xiaoying Yuan , Haolin Qin , Jianan Li

Recent advancements in visual object tracking have markedly improved the capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking, which is a critical component in real-world robotics applications. While the integration of hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Weihong Li , Xiaoqiong Liu , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang

Domain adaptation is an inspiring solution to the misalignment issue of day/night image features for nighttime UAV tracking. However, the one-step adaptation paradigm is inadequate in addressing the prevalent difficulties posed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Haobo Zuo , Changhong Fu , Guangze Zheng , Liangliang Yao , Kunhan Lu , Jia Pan

Micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) are becoming ubiquitous across multiple industries and application domains. Lightweight MAVs with only an onboard flight controller and a minimal sensor suite (e.g., IMU, vision, and vertical ranging sensors)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Li Qingqing , Yu Xianjia , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Research in Anti-UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) tracking has explored various modalities, including RGB, TIR, and RGB-T fusion. However, a unified framework for cross-modal collaboration is still lacking. Existing approaches have primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Qionglin Ren , Dawei Zhang , Chunxu Tian , Dan Zhang

In the realm of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking, Siamese-based approaches have gained traction due to their optimal balance between efficiency and precision. However, UAV scenarios often present challenges such as insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Xiaoying Yuan , Tingfa Xu , Xincong Liu , Ying Wang , Haolin Qin , Yuqiang Fang , Jianan Li

Modern multi-object tracking (MOT) systems usually model the trajectories by associating per-frame detections. However, when camera motion, fast motion, and occlusion challenges occur, it is difficult to ensure long-range tracking or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Shoudong Han , Piao Huang , Hongwei Wang , En Yu , Donghaisheng Liu , Xiaofeng Pan , Jun Zhao

Object tracking has been broadly applied in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tasks in recent years. However, existing algorithms still face difficulties such as partial occlusion, clutter background, and other challenging visual factors.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Yujie He , Changhong Fu , Fuling Lin , Yiming Li , Peng Lu

Existing nighttime aerial trackers based on prompt learning rely solely on spatial localization supervision, which fails to provide fine-grained cues that point to target features and inevitably produces vague prompts. This limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Zhiqiang Zhu , Xinbo Gao , Wen Lu , Jie Li , Zhaoyang Wang , Mingqian Ge

Low-light scenes are prevalent in real-world applications (e.g. autonomous driving and surveillance at night). Recently, multi-object tracking in various practical use cases have received much attention, but multi-object tracking in dark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Xinzhe Wang , Kang Ma , Qiankun Liu , Yunhao Zou , Ying Fu

Harnessing low-light enhancement and domain adaptation, nighttime UAV tracking has made substantial strides. However, over-reliance on image enhancement, limited high-quality nighttime data, and a lack of integration between daytime and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 You Wu , Xiangyang Yang , Xucheng Wang , Hengzhou Ye , Dan Zeng , Shuiwang Li

Recently, many multi-modal trackers prioritize RGB as the dominant modality, treating other modalities as auxiliary, and fine-tuning separately various multi-modal tasks. This imbalance in modality dependence limits the ability of methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xiantao Hu , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Zhiyi Mo , Liangtao Shi , Ying Tai , Jian Yang

With growing real-world demands, efficient tracking has received increasing attention. However, most existing methods are limited to RGB inputs and struggle in multi-modal scenarios. Moreover, current multi-modal tracking approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Ben Kang , Jie Zhao , Xin Chen , Wanting Geng , Bin Zhang , Lu Zhang , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

Drone-based multi-object tracking is essential yet highly challenging due to small targets, severe occlusions, and cluttered backgrounds. Existing RGB-based tracking algorithms heavily depend on spatial appearance cues such as color and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Tianhao Li , Tingfa Xu , Ying Wang , Haolin Qin , Xu Lin , Jianan Li

The extensive application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, and related domains has created an urgent need for accurate and efficient multi-object tracking (MOT) technologies, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Juanqin Liu , Leonardo Plotegher , Eloy Roura , Shaoming He

A tracking controller for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is developed to track moving targets undergoing unknown translational and rotational motions. The main challenges are to control both the relative positions and angles between the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Hsin-Ai Hung , Hao-Huan Hsu , Teng-Hu Cheng

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

With the increasing use of drones across various industries, the navigation and tracking of these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in challenging environments (such as GNSS-denied environments) have become critical issues. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Iacopo Catalano , Ha Sier , Xianjia Yu , Tomi Westerlund , Jorge Pena Queralta

Anti-UAV tracking poses significant challenges, including small target sizes, abrupt camera motion, and cluttered infrared backgrounds. Existing tracking paradigms can be broadly categorized into global- and local-based methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Ying Wang , Tingfa Xu , Jianan Li

Vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a popular backbone for visual tracking. However, complete ViT architectures are too cumbersome to deploy for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking which extremely emphasizes efficiency. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chaocan Xue , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Yaozong Zheng , Ning Li , Yuanliang Xue , Shuxiang Song