arXiv:2607. 17157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to localize multiple objects in videos while preserving their identities over time.
By Yanrong Qin, Xiaoyan Cao, Yao Yao
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
This paper conducts a systematic empirical study of multi‑object tracking (MOT) algorithms, focusing on how detection and association components affect overall performance. By evaluating state‑of‑the‑art methods on benchmarks such as MOT16/17/20, SportsMOT, DanceTrack, and CrowdTrack, the authors find that detection quality has a far greater impact than association strategies, and that transformer‑based end‑to‑end models are more robust to detection variations but computationally expensive. The study provides a unified pipeline diagram and practical guidance for researchers and practitioners in selecting and designing MOT systems.
By Linh Van Ma, Juhua Hu, Wei Cheng, Unse Fatima, Moongu Jeon
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
arXiv:2606. 07233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LiDAR-based 3D Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) typically relies solely on geometric information, which is often insufficient to distinguish between targets during prolonged occlusions or in crowded human-populated environments.
By Eduardo Borges, Lu\'is Garrote, Urbano J. Nunes
The paper introduces Privileged Appearance Transfer for Tracking (PATT), a teacher‑student framework that leverages exact target crops from past, current, and future frames during training to improve visual tracking. By weighting the teacher’s guidance with its localization advantage and accuracy, PATT transfers privileged appearance information to a deployable tracker that only uses past‑frame templates at inference. Experiments on seven benchmarks show consistent performance gains across both long‑ and short‑term tracking protocols.
By Xin Chen, Jiao Xu, Dong Wang, Huchuan Lu, Kede Ma
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
arXiv:2609.17427v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Real-time multi-object tracking systems remain highly vulnerable to full and long-term occlusion, where targets temporarily or completely disappear f...
By Mais Mohammed, Sharifa Mohammed, Hanan Awadh, Haneen Bamaas, Raghad Bawazeer, Elham Alghamdi
arXiv:2511.17681v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) extends conventional multi-object tracking (MOT) by introducing natural language references for multi-modal...
By Weiyi Lv, Ning Zhang, Hanyang Sun, Haoran Jiang, Kai Zhao, Yixiao Gu, Jing Xiao, Dan Zeng
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. 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
The paper introduces MovingDroneCrowd++, a large-scale video dataset for dense crowd counting and tracking from moving drones, featuring varied flight altitudes, camera angles, and lighting. It presents two new methods: GD3A for Video Individual Counting and GIA-Track for Multi-Object Tracking, both leveraging group-wise density assignment and identity association to handle aerial challenges. Experiments demonstrate significant improvements, reducing counting error by 47.4% and boosting tracking accuracy by 64.6%.
By Yaowu Fan, Jia Wan, Tao Han, Andy J. Ma, Wanli Ouyang, Antoni B. Chan