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Autonomous tracking of flying aerial objects has important civilian and defense applications, ranging from search and rescue to counter-unmanned aerial systems (counter-UAS). Ground based tracking requires setting up infrastructure, could…

Single visual object tracking from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) poses fundamental challenges such as object occlusion, small-scale objects, background clutter, and abrupt camera motion. To tackle these difficulties, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Stéphane Vujasinović , Stefan Becker , Timo Breuer , Sebastian Bullinger , Norbert Scherer-Negenborn , Michael Arens

Real-time tracking of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on edge devices faces a fundamental resolution-speed conflict. Downsampling high-resolution imagery to standard detector input sizes causes small target features to collapse below…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiawen Wen , Yu Hu , Suixuan Qiu , Jinshan Huang , Xiaowen Chu

The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) is increasingly central to the development of intelligent autonomous systems for applications such as search and rescue, environmental monitoring, and…

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking is crucial for autonomous navigation and has broad applications in robotic automation fields. However, reliable UAV tracking remains a challenging task due to various difficulties like frequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Changhong Fu , Mutian Cai , Sihang Li , Kunhan Lu , Haobo Zuo , Chongjun Liu

Vehicle tracking is an essential task in the multi-object tracking (MOT) field. A distinct characteristic in vehicle tracking is that the trajectories of vehicles are fairly smooth in both the world coordinate and the image coordinate.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Gaoang Wang , Renshu Gu , Zuozhu Liu , Weijie Hu , Mingli Song , Jenq-Neng Hwang

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

Compact UAV systems, while advancing delivery and surveillance, pose significant security challenges due to their small size, which hinders detection by traditional methods. This paper presents a cost-effective, unsupervised UAV detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hanfang Liang , Yizhuo Yang , Jinming Hu , Jianfei Yang , Fen Liu , Shenghai Yuan

This paper introduces a novel multi-object tracking (MOT) method, dubbed GenTrack, whose main contributions include: a hybrid tracking approach employing both stochastic and deterministic manners to robustly handle unknown and time-varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Toan Van Nguyen , Rasmus G. K. Christiansen , Dirk Kraft , Leon Bodenhagen

3D single object tracking plays an essential role in many applications, such as autonomous driving. It remains a challenging problem due to the large appearance variation and the sparsity of points caused by occlusion and limited sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Tian-Xing Xu , Yuan-Chen Guo , Yu-Kun Lai , Song-Hai Zhang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents unique challenges due to unpredictable object motion, frequent occlusions, and limited appearance cues inherent to aerial viewpoints. These issues are further…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Zenghuang Fu , Xiaofeng Han , Mingda Jia , Jin ming Yang , Qi Zeng , Muyang Zahng , Changwei Wang , Weiliang Meng , Xiaopeng Zhang

Most previous progress in object tracking is realized in daytime scenes with favorable illumination. State-of-the-arts can hardly carry on their superiority at night so far, thereby considerably blocking the broadening of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Junjie Ye , Changhong Fu , Ziang Cao , Shan An , Guangze Zheng , Bowen Li

Multi-object tracking (MOT) with camera-LiDAR fusion demands accurate results of object detection, affinity computation and data association in real time. This paper presents an efficient multi-modal MOT framework with online joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Kemiao Huang , Qi Hao

LiDAR-based 3D single object tracking (3D SOT) is a critical task in robotics and autonomous systems. Existing methods typically follow frame-wise motion estimation or a sequence-based paradigm. However, the two-frame methods are efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 BaiChen Fan , Yuanxi Cui , Jian Li , Qin Wang , Shibo Zhao , Muqing Cao , Sifan Zhou

Vision-based target tracking is crucial for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to perform tasks such as inspection, monitoring, and surveillance. However, real-time tracking in complex maritime environments is challenging due to dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Muhayy Ud Din , Ahsan B. Bakht , Waseem Akram , Yihao Dong , Lakmal Seneviratne , Irfan Hussain

This paper introduces MCTrack, a new 3D multi-object tracking method that achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance across KITTI, nuScenes, and Waymo datasets. Addressing the gap in existing tracking paradigms, which often perform well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xiyang Wang , Shouzheng Qi , Jieyou Zhao , Hangning Zhou , Siyu Zhang , Guoan Wang , Kai Tu , Songlin Guo , Jianbo Zhao , Jian Li , Mu Yang

As an important area in computer vision, object tracking has formed two separate communities that respectively study Single Object Tracking (SOT) and Multiple Object Tracking (MOT). However, current methods in one tracking scenario are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Fan Ma , Mike Zheng Shou , Linchao Zhu , Haoqi Fan , Yilei Xu , Yi Yang , Zhicheng Yan

Multi-object tracking plays a crucial role in various applications, such as autonomous driving and security surveillance. This study introduces Deep LG-Track, a novel multi-object tracker that incorporates three key enhancements to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Ting Meng , Chunyun Fu , Xiangyan Yan , Zheng Liang , Pan Ji , Jianwen Wang , Tao Huang

UAV has been widely used in various fields. However, most of the existing object detectors used in drones are not end-to-end and require the design of various complex components and careful fine-tuning. Most of the existing end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zifa Chen

Maintaining high efficiency and high precision are two fundamental challenges in UAV tracking due to the constraints of computing resources, battery capacity, and UAV maximum load. Discriminative correlation filters (DCF)-based trackers can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Dan Zeng , Mingliang Zou , Xucheng Wang , Shuiwang Li