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This paper introduces a new approach to the long-term tracking of an object in a challenging environment. The object is a cow and the environment is an enclosure in a cowshed. Some of the key challenges in this domain are a cluttered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Aram Ter-Sarkisov , Robert Ross , John Kelleher

The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) has demonstrated strong performance in object segmentation tasks but faces challenges in visual object tracking, particularly when managing crowded scenes with fast-moving or self-occluding objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Cheng-Yen Yang , Hsiang-Wei Huang , Wenhao Chai , Zhongyu Jiang , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Tracking individuals is a vital part of many experiments conducted to understand collective behaviour. Ants are the paradigmatic model system for such experiments but their lack of individually distinguishing visual features and their high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Chamath Abeysinghe , Chris Reid , Hamid Rezatofighi , Bernd Meyer

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has established itself as a powerful zero-shot image segmentation model, enabled by efficient point-centric annotation and prompt-based models. While click and brush interactions are both well explored in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Frano Rajič , Lei Ke , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu

Camera traps generate millions of wildlife images, yet many datasets contain species that are absent from existing classifiers. This work evaluates zero-shot approaches for organizing unlabeled wildlife imagery using self-supervised vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Hugo Markoff , Jevgenijs Galaktionovs

Traditional visual object tracking (VOT) methods typically rely on task-specific supervised training, limiting their generalization to unseen objects and challenging scenarios with distractors, occlusion, and nonlinear motion. Recent vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Deyi Zhu , Yuji Wang , Yong Liu , Yansong Tang , Bingyao Yu , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Animal habitat surveys play a critical role in preserving the biodiversity of the land. One of the effective ways to gain insights into animal habitats involves identifying animal footprints, which offers valuable information about species…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Risa Shinoda , Kaede Shiohara

Recently, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) gains lots of attention rapidly due to its impressive segmentation performance on images. Regarding its strong ability on image segmentation and high interactivity with different prompts, we found…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Jinyu Yang , Mingqi Gao , Zhe Li , Shang Gao , Fangjing Wang , Feng Zheng

Segmentation is an essential step for remote sensing image processing. This study aims to advance the application of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), an innovative image segmentation model by Meta AI, in the field of remote sensing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Lucas Prado Osco , Qiusheng Wu , Eduardo Lopes de Lemos , Wesley Nunes Gonçalves , Ana Paula Marques Ramos , Jonathan Li , José Marcato Junior

We introduce a new graphical model for tracking radio-tagged animals and learning their movement patterns. The model provides a principled way to combine radio telemetry data with an arbitrary set of userdefined, spatial features. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Berk Kapicioglu , Robert E. Schapire , Martin Wikelski , Tamara Broderick

With the development of large language models, many remarkable linguistic systems like ChatGPT have thrived and achieved astonishing success on many tasks, showing the incredible power of foundation models. In the spirit of unleashing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Dingyuan Zhang , Dingkang Liang , Hongcheng Yang , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Zhe Liu , Xiang Bai

The robust association of the same objects across video frames in complex scenes is crucial for many applications, especially Multiple Object Tracking (MOT). Current methods predominantly rely on labeled domain-specific video datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Siyuan Li , Lei Ke , Martin Danelljan , Luigi Piccinelli , Mattia Segu , Luc Van Gool , Fisher Yu

Unsupervised multimodal change detection is pivotal for time-sensitive tasks and comprehensive multi-temporal Earth monitoring. In this study, we explore unsupervised multimodal change detection between two key remote sensing data sources:…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Hongruixuan Chen , Jian Song , Naoto Yokoya

The recent widespread adoption of drones for studying marine animals provides opportunities for deriving biological information from aerial imagery. The large scale of imagery data acquired from drones is well suited for machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Chinmay K Lalgudi , Mark E Leone , Jaden V Clark , Sergio Madrigal-Mora , Mario Espinoza

Advancements in tracking algorithms have empowered nascent applications across various domains, from steering autonomous vehicles to guiding robots to enhancing augmented reality experiences for users. However, these algorithms are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yasra Chandio , Khotso Selialia , Joseph DeGol , Luis Garcia , Fatima M. Anwar

Object tracking, especially animal tracking, is one of the key topics that attract a lot of attention due to its benefits of animal behavior understanding and monitoring. Recent state-of-the-art tracking methods are founded on deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Thinh Phan , Isaac Phillips , Andrew Lockett , Michael T. Kidd , Ngan Le

Activity and behaviour correlate with dairy cow health and welfare, making continual and accurate monitoring crucial for disease identification and farm productivity. Manual observation and frequent assessments are laborious and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Kumail Abbas , Zeeshan Afzal , Aqeel Raza , Taha Mansouri , Andrew W. Dowsey , Chaidate Inchaisri , Ali Alameer

Collaborative perception plays a crucial role in enhancing environmental understanding by expanding the perceptual range and improving robustness against sensor failures, which primarily involves collaborative 3D detection and tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xunjie He , Christina Dao Wen Lee , Meiling Wang , Chengran Yuan , Zefan Huang , Yufeng Yue , Marcelo H. Ang

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

Wildlife field operations demand efficient parallel deployment methods to identify and interact with specific individuals, enabling simultaneous collective behavioral analysis, and health and safety interventions. Previous robotics…