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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…

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RGBT tracking has attracted increasing attention since RGB and thermal infrared data have strong complementary advantages, which could make trackers all-day and all-weather work. However, how to effectively represent RGBT data for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Andong Lu , Chenglong Li , Yuqing Yan , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

RGB-Thermal object tracking attempt to locate target object using complementary visual and thermal infrared data. Existing RGB-T trackers fuse different modalities by robust feature representation learning or adaptive modal weighting.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Rui Yang , Yabin Zhu , Xiao Wang , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang

Tracking multiple tiny objects is highly challenging due to their weak appearance and limited features. Existing multi-object tracking algorithms generally focus on single-modality scenes, and overlook the complementary characteristics of…

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Visible-modal object tracking gives rise to a series of downstream multi-modal tracking tributaries. To inherit the powerful representations of the foundation model, a natural modus operandi for multi-modal tracking is full fine-tuning on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jiawen Zhu , Simiao Lai , Xin Chen , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

Visual object tracking, as a fundamental task in computer vision, has drawn much attention in recent years. To extend trackers to a wider range of applications, researchers have introduced information from multiple modalities to handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Pengyu Zhang , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

Single object tracking aims to localize target object with specific reference modalities (bounding box, natural language or both) in a sequence of specific video modalities (RGB, RGB+Depth, RGB+Thermal or RGB+Event.). Different reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yinchao Ma , Yuyang Tang , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Xu Zhou , Feng Wu

The complementary benefits from visible and thermal infrared data are widely utilized in various computer vision task, such as visual tracking, semantic segmentation and object detection, but rarely explored in Multiple Object Tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Yabin Zhu , Qianwu Wang , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang , Zhixiang Huang

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…

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With the popularity of multi-modal sensors, visible-thermal (RGB-T) object tracking is to achieve robust performance and wider application scenarios with the guidance of objects' temperature information. However, the lack of paired training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Pengyu Zhang , Jie Zhao , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Xiang Ruan

RGBT tracking draws increasing attention because its robustness in multi-modal warranting (MMW) scenarios, such as nighttime and adverse weather conditions, where relying on a single sensing modality fails to ensure stable tracking results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zhangyong Tang , Tianyang Xu , Zhenhua Feng , Xuefeng Zhu , Chunyang Cheng , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

Visual object tracking with RGB and thermal infrared (TIR) spectra available, shorted in RGBT tracking, is a novel and challenging research topic which draws increasing attention nowadays. In this paper, we propose an RGBT tracker which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zhangyong Tang , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu

Existing open-vocabulary detectors focus on RGB images and fail to generalize to thermal imagery, where low texture and emissivity variations challenge RGB-based semantics. We present Thermal-Det, the first large language model (LLM)…

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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

RGB-T tracking involves the use of images from both visible and thermal modalities. The primary objective is to adaptively leverage the relatively dominant modality in varying conditions to achieve more robust tracking compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Yang Luo , Xiqing Guo , Mingtao Dong , Jin Yu

In robot vision, thermal cameras hold great potential for recognizing humans even in complete darkness. However, their application to multi-person tracking (MPT) has been limited due to data scarcity and the inherent difficulty of…

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

Multispectral object detection, utilizing both visible (RGB) and thermal infrared (T) modals, has garnered significant attention for its robust performance across diverse weather and lighting conditions. However, effectively exploiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Jinzhong Wang , Xuetao Tian , Shun Dai , Tao Zhuo , Haorui Zeng , Hongjuan Liu , Jiaqi Liu , Xiuwei Zhang , Yanning Zhang

Vision-language tracking has received increasing attention in recent years, as textual information can effectively address the inflexibility and inaccuracy associated with specifying the target object to be tracked. Existing works either…

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