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Multi-animal tracking (MAT), a multi-object tracking (MOT) problem, is crucial for animal motion and behavior analysis and has many crucial applications such as biology, ecology and animal conservation. Despite its importance, MAT is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Libo Zhang , Junyuan Gao , Zhen Xiao , Heng Fan

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

Current motion-based multiple object tracking (MOT) approaches rely heavily on Intersection-over-Union (IoU) for object association. Without using 3D features, they are ineffective in scenarios with occlusions or visually similar objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Milad Khanchi , Maria Amer , Charalambos Poullis

Online Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) from videos is a challenging computer vision task which has been extensively studied for decades. Most of the existing MOT algorithms are based on the Tracking-by-Detection (TBD) paradigm combined with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Zhen He , Jian Li , Daxue Liu , Hangen He , David Barber

The main challenge of Multi-Object Tracking~(MOT) lies in maintaining a continuous trajectory for each target. Existing methods often learn reliable motion patterns to match the same target between adjacent frames and discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Zheng Qin , Sanping Zhou , Le Wang , Jinghai Duan , Gang Hua , Wei Tang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in video sequences remains a challenging task, especially in scenarios with significant camera movements. This is because targets can drift considerably on the image plane, leading to erroneous tracking outcomes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Kefu Yi , Kai Luo , Xiaolei Luo , Jiangui Huang , Hao Wu , Rongdong Hu , Wei Hao

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to associate target objects across video frames in order to obtain entire moving trajectories. With the advancement of deep neural networks and the increasing demand for intelligent video analysis, MOT has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Gaoang Wang , Mingli Song , Jenq-Neng Hwang

The emerging global market for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) services is anticipated to reach USD 58.4 billion by 2026, spurring significant efforts to safely integrate routine UAV operations into the national airspace in a manner that they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jasmin Martin , Jenna Riseley , Jason J. Ford

3D Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) obtains significant performance improvements with the rapid advancements in 3D object detection, particularly in cost-effective multi-camera setups. However, the prevalent end-to-end training approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Xiaoyu Li , Peidong Li , Lijun Zhao , Dedong Liu , Jinghan Gao , Xian Wu , Yitao Wu , Dixiao Cui

Monocular vision-based target motion estimation is a fundamental challenge in numerous applications. This work introduces a novel bearing-box approach that fully leverages modern 3D detection measurements that are widely available nowadays…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yin Zhang , Zian Ning , Shiyu Zhao

Multi-camera full-body pose capture of humans and animals in outdoor environments is a highly challenging problem. Our approach to it involves a team of cooperating micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) with on-board cameras only. The key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Eric Price , Guilherme Lawless , Heinrich H. Bülthoff , Michael Black , Aamir Ahmad

Embodied visual tracking is crucial for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) executing complex real-world tasks. In dynamic urban scenarios with complex semantic requirements, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show great promise due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Qiyao Zhang , Shuhua Zheng , Jianli Sun , Chengxiang Li , Xianke Wu , Zihan Song , Zhiyong Cui , Yisheng Lv , Yonglin Tian

This paper investigates the coordinated trajectory tracking problem of multiple vertical takeooff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The case of unidirectional information flow is considered and the objective is to drive…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Yao Zou , Ziyang Meng

Aerial object tracking has broad applications in public safety, emergency rescue, wildlife monitoring, and related fields. However, existing aerial tracking benchmarks are mainly based on passive 2D video sequences captured from fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Guyue Hu , Haoming Liu , Siyuan Song , Chenglong Li , Feng Chen , Jin Tang

Obstacle avoidance in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as a fundamental capability, has gained increasing attention with the growing focus on spatial intelligence. However, current obstacle-avoidance methods mainly depend on limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiangkai Zhang , Dizhe Zhang , WenZhuo Cao , Zhaoliang Wan , Yingjie Niu , Lu Qi , Xu Yang , Zhiyong Liu

Panoramic imagery, with its 360{\deg} field of view, offers comprehensive information to support Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) in capturing spatial and temporal relationships of surrounding objects. However, most MOT algorithms are tailored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Kai Luo , Hao Shi , Sheng Wu , Fei Teng , Mengfei Duan , Chang Huang , Yuhang Wang , Kaiwei Wang , Kailun Yang

Visual tracking has achieved considerable progress in recent years. However, current research in the field mainly focuses on tracking of opaque objects, while little attention is paid to transparent object tracking. In this paper, we make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Heng Fan , Halady Akhilesha Miththanthaya , Harshit , Siranjiv Ramana Rajan , Xiaoqiong Liu , Zhilin Zou , Yuewei Lin , Haibin Ling

The remarkable growth of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has also sparked concerns about safety measures during their missions. To advance towards safer autonomous aerial robots, this work presents a vision-based solution to ensuring safe…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Phuoc Nguyen Thuan , Tomi Westerlund , Jorge Peña Queralta

In the recent past, the computer vision community has developed centralized benchmarks for the performance evaluation of a variety of tasks, including generic object and pedestrian detection, 3D reconstruction, optical flow, single-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Laura Leal-Taixé , Anton Milan , Ian Reid , Stefan Roth , Konrad Schindler

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