arXiv Machine Learning

Beyond Direct Sensing: Harnessing Indirect Observations from Third-Party Sensors in Vehicle Tracking

The paper introduces GrayTrack, a vehicle‑tracking system that fuses weak, indirect observations from third‑party sensors with sparse direct sensor data using a road‑constrained particle filter. Experiments on a CARLA‑Mininet‑WiFi pipeline show that the system achieves an F1 score of 0.989 for anonymous vehicle passages and reduces trajectory RMSE by 60.1% while cutting catastrophic track loss from 35.8% to 0.3%. These results demonstrate that incorporating indirect third‑party observations can substantially extend tracking capabilities when direct sensor access is limited.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 14

MPT: Missing Prototype Tracking via Barycentric Reconstruction in Vehicular Federated Learning

arXiv:2609.12771v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-vehicle federated learning enables vehicles to collaboratively improve perception models while keeping locally collected driving data private....

By Hanju Jang (Yonsei University), Gyeongmin Han (Yonsei University), Sungmin Lee (Yonsei University), Kichang Lee (Yonsei University), Chunghan Lee (Toyota Motor Corporation), JeongGil Ko (Yonsei University)
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

When the City Teaches the Car: Label-Free 3D Perception from Infrastructure

The paper proposes a label‑free 3D perception framework where roadside units (RSUs) act as unsupervised teachers for self‑driving cars. RSUs learn local 3D detectors from unlabeled data and broadcast predictions to passing vehicles, which use these as pseudo‑labels to train an ego‑centric detector. In a CARLA simulation, the method achieves 82.3% AP for vehicle detection, approaching a fully supervised upper bound of 94.4%, and demonstrates scalability and complementarity with existing ego‑centric approaches.

By Zhen Xu, Jinsu Yoo, Cristian Bautista, Zanming Huang, Tai-Yu Pan, Zhenzhen Liu, Katie Z Luo, Mark Campbell, Bharath Hariharan, Wei-Lun Chao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 17

RadioVIL: Anomaly-Aware Diffusion Models for Radio Map Inpainting and Zero-Shot Vehicle Localization

High-precision radio map construction is essential for emerging 6G Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) applications, including digital twins and intelligent transportation. However, existing deep learning methods predominantly treat this as a pure image completion task, resulting in over-smoothed reconstructions that fundamentally erase high-frequency scattering signatures of dynamic physical entities such as hidden vehicles.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

GRACE: Geometry- and Ray-Aware Camera-Efficient Multi-View Pedestrian Tracking

GRACE is a camera‑efficient multi‑view pedestrian tracker that reduces the number of required cameras while maintaining high tracking accuracy. It combines volumetric‑guided fusion of homography‑based BEV features with 3D‑lifted features, uses ray conditioning to incorporate each camera’s viewing direction, and employs BEV Track Recovery to continue existing tracks with low‑confidence detections. On the WildTrack dataset, GRACE raises MOTA from 83.54 to 91.07 compared to the baseline TrackTacular.

By Taigo Sakai, Kazuhiro Hotta, Hiroki Kouno, Naoki Kato
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 2

Beyond Leaderboard Scores: A Deployment-Focused Protocol for Interpretable Tracking Evaluation in Pedestrian-Centric Environments

The paper introduces a deployment‑focused evaluation protocol for pedestrian tracking that isolates tracker performance by using shared detections, assessing initialization, gap continuation, identity recovery, close‑neighbor association, and runtime under load, while still reporting HOTA as an aggregate metric. Applied to the JackRabbot Dataset, the protocol reveals that trackers vary widely in capability, with none maintaining spatially correct, same‑identity output after 1 s of missing detector support, and that runtime on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin often falls below the 10 Hz target in crowded scenes. The authors provide open‑source code and scripts to enable reproducible assessment of tracker suitability for real‑world pedestrian‑centric robotics. whyItMatters":"The protocol offers a practical, tracker‑only framework that directly informs the design and deployment of mobile robots operating among pedestrians by highlighting specific failure modes and computational constraints that aggregate scores overlook."

By Dominik Wojcikiewicz, Diego Paez-Granados
arXiv AI
Aug 11

ATLASFusion: Aggregation Tracking with Location-Aware Sparse Fusion for Robust Spatio-Temporal Multi-View Pedestrian Tracking

arXiv:2509. 08421v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: For multimedia spatial intelligence through time, multi-view multi-object tracking (MVMOT) suffers from persistent challenges in maintaining consistent object identities across different camera views, leading to tracking inaccuracies.

By Keisuke Toida, Taigo Sakai, Takeshi Nakamura, Hiroshi Shimizu, Kazuhiro Hotta