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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

Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) aims to track targets specified by language instructions. However, existing RMOT paradigms heavily rely on explicit visual-textual matching and consequently fail to generalize to complex instructions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Sijia Chen , Yanqiu Yu , En Yu , Wenbing Tao

Current approaches in Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) rely on the spatio-temporal coherence between detections combined with object appearance to match objects from consecutive frames. In this work, we explore MOT using object appearances as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Andreu Girbau , Ferran Marqués , Shin'ichi Satoh

We propose a data-driven approach to online multi-object tracking (MOT) that uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) for data association in a tracking-by-detection framework. The problem of multi-target tracking aims to assign noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Erkan Baser , Venkateshwaran Balasubramanian , Prarthana Bhattacharyya , Krzysztof Czarnecki

Vision-language tracking aims to locate the target object in the video sequence using a template patch and a language description provided in the initial frame. To achieve robust tracking, especially in complex long-term scenarios that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 X. Feng , S. Hu , X. Li , D. Zhang , M. Wu , J. Zhang , X. Chen , K. Huang

Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) aims to achieve precise object detection and tracking through natural language instructions, representing a fundamental capability for intelligent robotic systems. However, current RMOT research…

Significant progress has been achieved in multi-object tracking (MOT) through the evolution of detection and re-identification (ReID) techniques. Despite these advancements, accurately tracking objects in scenarios with homogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Changcheng Xiao , Qiong Cao , Yujie Zhong , Long Lan , Xiang Zhang , Zhigang Luo , Dacheng Tao

Multimodal semantic cues, such as textual descriptions, have shown strong potential in enhancing target perception for tracking. However, existing methods rely on static textual descriptions from large language models, which lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Yukuan Zhang , Jiarui Zhao , Shangqing Nie , Jin Kuang , Shengsheng Wang

This paper introduces the task of Auditory Referring Multi-Object Tracking (AR-MOT), which dynamically tracks specific objects in a video sequence based on audio expressions and appears as a challenging problem in autonomous driving. Due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Jiacheng Lin , Jiajun Chen , Kunyu Peng , Xuan He , Zhiyong Li , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Kailun Yang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a core task in computer vision that involves detecting objects in video frames and associating them across time. The rise of deep learning has significantly advanced MOT, particularly within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Momir Adžemović

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

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) aims to find bounding boxes and identities of targeted objects in consecutive video frames. While fully-supervised MOT methods have achieved high accuracy on existing datasets, they cannot generalize well on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Pha Nguyen , Kha Gia Quach , John Gauch , Samee U. Khan , Bhiksha Raj , Khoa Luu

Most existing Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) approaches follow the Tracking-by-Detection paradigm and the data association framework where objects are firstly detected and then associated. Although deep-learning based method can noticeably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Xingyu Wan , Jiakai Cao , Sanping Zhou , Jinjun Wang

A typical pipeline for multi-object tracking (MOT) is to use a detector for object localization, and following re-identification (re-ID) for object association. This pipeline is partially motivated by recent progress in both object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Peize Sun , Jinkun Cao , Yi Jiang , Zehuan Yuan , Song Bai , Kris Kitani , Ping Luo

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a critical and challenging task in computer vision, particularly in situations involving objects with similar appearances but diverse movements, as seen in team sports. Current methods, largely reliant on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Atom Scott , Ikuma Uchida , Ning Ding , Rikuhei Umemoto , Rory Bunker , Ren Kobayashi , Takeshi Koyama , Masaki Onishi , Yoshinari Kameda , Keisuke Fujii

Current multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to predict trajectories of targets (i.e., ''where'') in videos. Yet, knowing merely ''where'' is insufficient in many crucial applications. In comparison, semantic understanding such as fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yunhao Li , Qin Li , Hao Wang , Xue Ma , Jiali Yao , Shaohua Dong , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang

Most existing multi-object tracking methods typically learn visual tracking features via maximizing dis-similarities of different instances and minimizing similarities of the same instance. While such a feature learning scheme achieves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yuhao Li , Jiale Cao , Muzammal Naseer , Yu Zhu , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Temporal modeling of objects is a key challenge in multiple object tracking (MOT). Existing methods track by associating detections through motion-based and appearance-based similarity heuristics. The post-processing nature of association…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Fangao Zeng , Bin Dong , Yuang Zhang , Tiancai Wang , Xiangyu Zhang , Yichen Wei

Multiple object tracking (MOT) is a crucial task in computer vision society. However, most tracking-by-detection MOT methods, with available detected bounding boxes, cannot effectively handle static, slow-moving and fast-moving camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Jiarui Cai , Yizhou Wang , Haotian Zhang , Hung-Min Hsu , Chengqian Ma , Jenq-Neng Hwang

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