MAETrack introduces a lightweight framework to adapt pretrained masked autoencoder (MAE) representations for 3D single object tracking (SOT). It uses Layer‑Selective Initialization (LSI) to keep shallow geometric layers from the pre‑training while re‑initializing deeper layers, and Geometric Residual Gating (GRG) to emphasize salient regions in BEV features before template‑search fusion. Experiments on standard 3D SOT benchmarks show consistent improvements over vanilla fine‑tuning with minimal computational cost.
By Sifan Zhou, Qiwei Wang, Linyue Tan, Ziyu Liu, Ziyu Zhao, Xiaobo Lu
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
UniMergeTrack introduces a hierarchical model merging strategy for RGB-X visual object tracking, combining independently trained modality-specific trackers into a unified framework. The method merges transferable backbones using high‑pass‑filtered merging, aligns tracking heads with optimal transport‑guided channel alignment, and fine‑tunes with distribution alignment to integrate cross‑task knowledge while preserving modality cues. Experiments on multiple benchmarks show state‑of‑the‑art or competitive performance across RGB‑Thermal, RGB‑Event, and RGB‑Depth tracking tasks, with strong generalization to unseen datasets.
By Shiao Wang, Xiao Wang, Yuhe Ding, Jiarui Xu, Zikang Yan, Bo Jiang, Yonghong Tian, Jin Tang
arXiv:2610.34939v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: RGB-X tracking complements RGB appearance with thermal, depth, or event observations, but centralized training requires collecting multimodal videos at...
By Xiangyu Liu, Yijie Shen, Yue Yin, Zhitong Yin, Yongqi Pan, Wentao Fan
arXiv:2609.12261v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-object tracking (MOT) is dominated by the tracking-by-detection paradigm, whose methods typically rely on a small set of hyperparameters that are...
By Momir Ad\v{z}emovi\'c
arXiv:2606. 26455v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RGB-Event tracking improves localization robustness by fusing RGB appearance textures and dense temporal motion cues from event sensors.
By Xiao Wang, Xufeng Lou, Zikang Yan, Lan Chen, Sibao Chen, Yaowei Wang, Yonghong Tian, Jin Tang
The paper introduces TSDA-Track, a Template-Search Domain Adaptation framework designed to reduce modality gaps in cross‑modal visual object tracking. Two variants are explored: Pre‑AFA TSDA‑Track uses adversarial alignment before transformer interaction, while Enc‑CFA TSDA‑Track applies contrastive alignment after interaction to strengthen cross‑modal correspondence. Experiments on datasets such as LasHeR, RGBT234, GTOT, and Anti‑UAV‑024 show that both variants outperform state‑of‑the‑art trackers, with Pre‑AFA achieving an SR/PR of 43.2/56.0 on RGBT234 under the modality‑switch protocol.
By Fereshteh Aghaee Meibodi, Amir Mehdi Soufi Enayati, Shadi Alijani, Homayoun Najjaran
arXiv:2605. 16366v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video MLLMs face a persistent tension between spatial fidelity and temporal coverage: preserving fine-grained visual details requires many spatial tokens, while capturing short-lived events requires dense temporal sampling.
By Yigui Feng (The College of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China), Qinglin Wang (The College of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China), Yang Liu (The Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China), Jie Liu (The College of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China)
arXiv:2610.23125v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent RGB-infrared multi-object tracking (MOT) methods have substantially improved cross-modal representation learning and multimodal information inte...
By Bingyang Wang, Jiazuo Yu, Lu Zhang, Lihe Zhang, Huchuan Lu, You He
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
Conditioning a video generator on multiple images requires preserving appearance while associating each reference with its intended role. We present MSR (Multiple Subject Reference), a slot-aware cond...
arXiv:2511.11286v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Out-of-domain (OOD) robustness is challenging to achieve in real-world computer vision, especially in unsupervised domain adaptation scenario...
By Ruoqi Wang, Haitao Wang, Shaojie Guo, Qiong Luo