arXiv:2606. 14094v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conventional RGB cameras have been widely used in multi-object tracking due to their ability to capture rich appearance and semantic information.
By Shiao Wang, Xiao Wang, Chao Wang, Yitao Li, Menghao Liu, Bo Jiang, Yaowei Wang, Yonghong Tian, Jin Tang
RA‑SOD is a new RGB‑Thermal salient object detection framework that explicitly models the reliability of each modality. It introduces a reliability‑conditioned representation, an uncertainty‑guided dual‑stream refinement, and a pixel‑wise modality competition mechanism to adaptively compensate degraded features and suppress unreliable evidence. Experiments on four benchmarks show that RA‑SOD achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance and remains robust under severe modality degradation.
By Hongbo Gao, Zhengyu Li, Xueru Nie, Dihao Zhu, Lijun Zhao, Yunke Wang, Chang Xu
arXiv:2603. 24016v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) has traditionally focused on a few specific categories, restricting its applicability to real-world scenarios involving diverse objects.
By Zekun Qian, Wei Feng, Ruize Han, Junhui Hou
ESMTrack is a fully end‑to‑end self‑supervised RGB‑T tracking framework that eliminates the need for costly modality‑aligned bounding boxes or offline pseudo‑label generation. It learns discriminative, temporally consistent representations using a grounding triplet loss on the initial annotated frame and a cross‑frame temporal triplet loss on unlabeled search frames, with reliable samples selected via forward‑backward consistency. A three‑branch architecture (fusion, RGB, thermal) and a modality decoupling mechanism mitigate modality dominance bias, enabling competitive state‑of‑the‑art performance, strong cross‑dataset generalization, and real‑time inference on five RGB‑T benchmarks.
By Shenglan Li, Rui Yao, Kunyang Sun, Hong Jia, Yong Zhou, Javen Qinfeng Shi, Xinyu Zhang
arXiv:2609.36929v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent event-based depth estimation methods successfully transfer geometric priors from vision foundation models via cross-modal distillation. However,...
By Thai Duy Nguyen, Addison Lin Wang
Segmentation-based multi-object tracking (MOT) with foundation video models such as SAM2 offers strong localization quality, yet remains fragile in crowded, real-world scenes. In detector-prompted SAM...
arXiv:2609.25803v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: High-rate dense perception in dynamic environments is limited by the low update rate of RGB cameras, as rapid scene changes can occur between frames. E...
By Tao Wan, Xiaoshan Wu, Yifei Yu, Bo Wang, Xiaoyang Lyu, Muxin Liu, Aoxuan Pan, Zhongrui Wang, Xiaojuan Qi
LiAM‑SAM is a lifecycle‑aware memory framework designed to improve segmentation‑based multi‑object tracking (MOT) with the SAM2 foundation video model. It addresses three common failure modes—faulty track initiation, memory drift during close interactions, and unreliable re‑identification after occlusion—by introducing contrastive track initiation, motion‑ and geometry‑grounded memory correction, and adaptive context memory. The system achieves state‑of‑the‑art HOTA and IDF1 scores, with ablations showing significant gains in association metrics and a 96% reduction in identity switches.
By Gr\'egoire Francisco, Alessandro D'Amico, Samuele Costantini, Gianpiero Francesca, Lorenzo Garattoni
arXiv:2602. 14771v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The human visual system tracks objects by integrating current observations with previously observed information, adapting to target and scene changes, and reasoning about occlusion at fine granularity.
By Shih-Fang Chen, Jun-Cheng Chen, I-Hong Jhuo, Yen-Yu Lin
arXiv:2606. 29136v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Event cameras capture sparse brightness changes with high temporal resolution and high dynamic range, compensating for the deficiencies of the conventional RGB frames.
By Yu Li, Yuenan Hou, Yingmei Wei, Jiangming Chen, Yanming Guo
arXiv:2601. 06550v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Semantic Multi-Object Tracking (SMOT) is evolving from purely geometric localization toward comprehensive video understanding.
By Pan Liao, Feng Yang, Di Wu, Jinwen Yu, Wang Zhao, Dingwen Zhang
The paper investigates how knowledge distillation from event cameras to RGB images can alter the inductive biases of convolutional neural networks. By transferring learning from the event domain, the authors find that models gain color invariance, a shape bias, and improved robustness to high‑frequency noise, largely due to reduced reliance on texture and increased emphasis on edge‑based object shape. These changes are evidenced by early‑layer processing differences and a spectral trade‑off between robustness to missing high‑frequency content and vulnerability to its contamination or geometric disruption.
By Soshun Kihara, Shunsuke Yasuki, Masato Taki