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  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,152 Views
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Enhancing Pedestrian Tracking in Autonomous Vehicles by Using Advanced Deep Learning Techniques

  • Majdi Sukkar,
  • Madhu Shukla,
  • Dinesh Kumar,
  • Vassilis C. Gerogiannis and ,
  • Andreas Kanavos and
  • Biswaranjan Acharya
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 February 2024

Effective collision risk reduction in autonomous vehicles relies on robust and straightforward pedestrian tracking. Challenges posed by occlusion and switching scenarios significantly impede the reliability of pedestrian tracking. In the current stud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Information Processing for Sensors and IoT Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,546 Views
16 Pages

Behavior Tracking and Analyses of Group-Housed Pigs Based on Improved ByteTrack

  • Shuqin Tu,
  • Haoxuan Ou,
  • Liang Mao,
  • Jiaying Du and ,
  • Yuefei Cao and
  • Weidian Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 November 2024

Daily behavioral analysis of group-housed pigs provides critical insights into early warning systems for pig health issues and animal welfare in smart pig farming. In this study, our main objective was to develop an automated method for monitoring an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling and Computer Vision in Animal Activity or Behavior: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,625 Views
20 Pages

Evaluation Method for Artificial Reefs Based on Multi-Object Tracking

  • Zuli Wu,
  • Yifan Song,
  • Xuesen Cui,
  • Shengmao Zhang and ,
  • Weimin Quan,
  • Yongchuang Shi,
  • Xinquan Xiong and
  • Penglong Li
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

28 February 2025

Artificial reefs (ARS) are structures placed in the ocean, and their posture and position affect the placement effect of the reef. Quantitative data on the reef posture and position can provide references for the creation of a favorable environment f...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,275 Views
18 Pages

Achieving Adaptive Visual Multi-Object Tracking with Unscented Kalman Filter

  • Guowei Zhang,
  • Jiyao Yin,
  • Peng Deng,
  • Yanlong Sun and ,
  • Lin Zhou and
  • Kuiyuan Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 November 2022

As an essential part of intelligent monitoring, behavior recognition, automatic driving, and others, the challenge of multi-object tracking is still to ensure tracking accuracy and robustness, especially in complex occlusion environments. Aiming at t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Centric Sensing Technology and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,364 Views
15 Pages

21 April 2021

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is an integral part of any autonomous driving pipelines because it produces trajectories of other moving objects in the scene and predicts their future motion. Thanks to the recent advances in 3D object detection enabled b...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sensors and Data Processing in Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,051 Views
18 Pages

17 March 2017

Due to the reasonably acceptable performance of state-of-the-art object detectors, tracking-by-detection is a standard strategy for visual multi-object tracking (MOT). In particular, online MOT is more demanding due to its diverse applications in tim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Video Analysis and Tracking Using State-of-the-Art Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,449 Views
19 Pages

Towards Occlusion-Aware Multi-Pedestrian Tracking

  • Hechuang Wang,
  • Tong Chen and
  • Yifan Wang

11 December 2025

Achieving robust multi-object tracking in complex real-world scenarios remains a challenging task. Existing approaches often struggle to effectively handle occlusion, primarily because occlusion can result in unreliable appearance features, inaccurat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Computer Vision Techniques: AI-Based Object Detection, Tracking, Surveillance and Security Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,554 Views
14 Pages

Multiple Ship Tracking in Remote Sensing Images Using Deep Learning

  • Jin Wu,
  • Changqing Cao,
  • Yuedong Zhou,
  • Xiaodong Zeng and ,
  • Zhejun Feng,
  • Qifan Wu and
  • Ziqiang Huang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 September 2021

In remote sensing images, small target size and diverse background cause difficulty in locating targets accurately and quickly. To address the lack of accuracy and inefficient real-time performance of existing tracking algorithms, a multi-object trac...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,318 Views
20 Pages

13 January 2025

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to detect objects in video sequences and associate them across frames. Currently, the mainstream research direction regarding MOT is the tracking-by-detection (TBD) framework. Tracking results are highly sensitive to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,313 Views
20 Pages

25 November 2020

Currently, intelligent security systems are widely deployed in indoor buildings to ensure the safety of people in shopping malls, banks, train stations, and other indoor buildings. Multi-Object Tracking (MOT), as an important component of intelligent...

(This article belongs to the Collection Multi-Sensor Information Fusion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,179 Views
20 Pages

SORT-YM: An Algorithm of Multi-Object Tracking with YOLOv4-Tiny and Motion Prediction

  • Han Wu,
  • Chenjie Du,
  • Zhongping Ji,
  • Mingyu Gao and
  • Zhiwei He

21 September 2021

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a significant and widespread research field in image processing and computer vision. The goal of the MOT task consists in predicting the complete tracklets of multiple objects in a video sequence. There are usually many...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,151 Views
8 Pages

A Comparison Between Single-Stage and Two-Stage 3D Tracking Algorithms for Greenhouse Robotics

  • David Rapado-Rincon,
  • Akshay K. Burusa,
  • Eldert J. van Henten and
  • Gert Kootstra

17 November 2024

With the current demand for automation in the agro-food industry, accurately detecting and localizing relevant objects in 3D is essential for successful robotic operations. However, this is a challenge due the presence of occlusions. Multi-view perce...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,586 Views
17 Pages

Multi-Object Tracking Algorithm of Fusing Trajectory Compensation

  • Jianhai Jin,
  • Liming Wang,
  • Qi You and
  • Jun Sun

26 July 2022

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is an important research topic in the field of computer vision, including object detection and data association. However, problems such as missed detection and trajectory mismatch often lead to missing target information,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,246 Views
21 Pages

Pig Health Assessment Framework Based on Behavioural Analysis

  • Shuqin Tu,
  • Boyang Tan,
  • Aqing Yang,
  • Hairan Yang and ,
  • Yizhi Luo,
  • Yuan Fang and
  • Zicong Xu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 December 2025

The long-term behavioural analysis and health assessment of Pigs are essential for intelligent management in modern pig farming. Manual tracking and behaviour analysis for constructing health assessment systems are often subjective, inconsistent, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling and Computer Vision in Animal Activity or Behavior: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,489 Views
15 Pages

3D-DIoU: 3D Distance Intersection over Union for Multi-Object Tracking in Point Cloud

  • Sazan Ali Kamal Mohammed,
  • Mohd Zulhakimi Ab Razak and
  • Abdul Hadi Abd Rahman

23 March 2023

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a prominent and important study in point cloud processing and computer vision. The main objective of MOT is to predict full tracklets of several objects in point cloud. Occlusion and similar objects are two common probl...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
15,027 Views
16 Pages

13 October 2023

Multi-object pedestrian tracking plays a crucial role in autonomous driving systems, enabling accurate perception of the surrounding environment. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive approach for pedestrian tracking, combining the improved YOLOv...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,607 Views
17 Pages

CSMOT: Make One-Shot Multi-Object Tracking in Crowded Scenes Great Again

  • Haoxiong Hou,
  • Chao Shen,
  • Ximing Zhang and
  • Wei Gao

6 April 2023

The current popular one-shot multi-object tracking (MOT) algorithms are dominated by the joint detection and embedding paradigm, which have high inference speeds and accuracy, but their tracking performance is unstable in crowded scenes. Not only doe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Target Detection, Tracking and Identification Using Multi-Sensor Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,710 Views
24 Pages

5 May 2025

Multi-object tracking still faces significant challenges in complex conditions such as dense scenes, occlusion environments, and non-linear motion, especially regarding the detection and identity maintenance of small objects. To tackle these issues,...

(This article belongs to the Topic Visual Computing and Understanding: New Developments and Trends)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,018 Views
16 Pages

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision, with significant applications in autonomous systems, surveillance, and intelligent transportation. The Tracking-By-Detection (TBD) paradigm has achieved notable tracking...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,495 Views
20 Pages

Detector–Tracker Integration Framework for Autonomous Vehicles Pedestrian Tracking

  • Huanhuan Wang,
  • Lisheng Jin,
  • Yang He,
  • Zhen Huo and ,
  • Guangqi Wang and
  • Xinyu Sun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 April 2023

Pedestrian tracking is an important aspect of autonomous vehicles environment perception in a vehicle running environment. The performance of the existing pedestrian tracking algorithms is limited by the complex traffic environment, the changeable ap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,873 Views
17 Pages

8 March 2023

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a topic of great interest in the field of computer vision, which is essential in smart behavior-analysis systems for healthcare, such as human-flow monitoring, crime analysis, and behavior warnings. Most MOT methods ach...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
  • Best Paper Award
108 Citations
32,482 Views
18 Pages

26 January 2022

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) techniques have been under continuous research and increasingly applied in a diverse range of tasks. One area in particular concerns its application in navigation tasks of assistive mobile robots, with the aim to increase...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,352 Views
17 Pages

26 December 2024

Multi-object tracking aims to track multiple objects across consecutive frames in a video, assigning a unique classifier to each object. However, issues such as occlusions, directional changes, or shape alterations can cause appearance variations, le...

(This article belongs to the Topic Computer Vision and Image Processing, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,576 Views
22 Pages

OcclusionTrack: Multi-Object Tracking in Dense Scenes

  • Yuzhi Chen,
  • Fanqin Meng and
  • Ziqiu Chen

10 December 2025

This paper presents OcclusionTrack (OCCTrack), a robust multi-object tracker designed to address occlusion challenges in dense scenes. Occlusion remains a critical issue in multi-object tracking; despite significant advancements in current tracking m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,490 Views
27 Pages

30 April 2025

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a key intermediate task in many practical applications and theoretical fields, facing significant challenges due to complex scenarios, particularly in the context of drone-based air-to-ground military operations. During...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,466 Views
18 Pages

3 December 2024

Accurate multi-object tracking (MOT) is essential for autonomous vehicles, enabling them to perceive and interact with dynamic environments effectively. Single-modality 3D MOT algorithms often face limitations due to sensor constraints, resulting in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Mobile Robot Perceptions, Planning, Control and Learning: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
11,485 Views
23 Pages

14 September 2024

This work presents an autonomous vision-based mobile target tracking and following system designed for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) leveraging multi-target information. It explores the research gap in applying the most recent multi-object tracking...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Detection, Security, and Communication for UAV)
  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
9,315 Views
21 Pages

3 January 2023

Effective livestock management is critical for cattle farms in today’s competitive era of smart modern farming. To ensure farm management solutions are efficient, affordable, and scalable, the manual identification and detection of cattle are n...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,977 Views
19 Pages

Occlusion-Robust Multi-Target Tracking and Segmentation Framework with Mask Enhancement

  • Hao Sheng,
  • Defa Zhang,
  • Dazhi Yang,
  • Da Yang and ,
  • Xi Liu and
  • Wei Ke
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 June 2025

Multi-object tracking stands as one of the most prominent domains in Computer Vision and has significant research value and practical importance. However, due to the complexity of scenarios in the real world, especially in crowded environments with f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Image Recognition and Processing Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,636 Views
13 Pages

20 November 2023

As a result of increasing urbanization, traffic monitoring in cities has become a challenging task. The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provides an attractive solution to this problem. Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) for UAVs is a key technology t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Perception, Communications, and Control for Drones)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,333 Views
18 Pages

Multi-Pedestrian Tracking Based on KC-YOLO Detection and Identity Validity Discrimination Module

  • Jingwen Li,
  • Wei Wu,
  • Dan Zhang,
  • Dayong Fan and ,
  • Jianwu Jiang,
  • Yanling Lu,
  • Ertao Gao and
  • Tao Yue
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

10 November 2023

Multiple-object tracking (MOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision and is widely applied across various domains. However, its algorithms remain somewhat immature in practical applications. To address the challenges presented by complex scenarios...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Image Processing: Advanced Technologies and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,067 Views
26 Pages

16 November 2021

The human brain can effortlessly perform vision processes using the visual system, which helps solve multi-object tracking (MOT) problems. However, few algorithms simulate human strategies for solving MOT. Therefore, devising a method that simulates...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Aided Diagnosis Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,433 Views
20 Pages

18 November 2025

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a critical task in computer vision, with widespread applications in intelligent surveillance, behavior analysis, autonomous navigation, and marine ecological monitoring. In particular, accurate tracking of underwater fi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technology for Fish and Fishery Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,485 Views
16 Pages

23 August 2023

During the Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) process, the effectiveness of Re-Identification (Re-ID) is typically contingent upon the performance of detection. In particular, detection errors may result in the blurring of Re-ID features, thereby diminishin...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,558 Views
29 Pages

22 October 2020

Recognizing the identity of a query individual in a surveillance sequence is the core of Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) and Re-Identification (Re-Id) algorithms. Both tasks can be addressed by measuring the appearance affinity between people observation...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,612 Views
28 Pages

On-Satellite Implementation of Real-Time Multi-Object Moving Vehicle Tracking with Complex Moving Backgrounds

  • Jingyi Yu,
  • Siyuan Wei,
  • Yuxiao Wen,
  • Danshu Zhou and ,
  • Runjiang Dou,
  • Xiuyu Wang,
  • Jiangtao Xu,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Nanjian Wu and
  • Liyuan Liu
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

26 January 2025

On-satellite information processing enables all-weather target tracking. The background of videos from satellite sensors exhibits an affine transformation due to their motion relative to the Earth. In complex moving backgrounds, moving vehicles have...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Target Object Detection and Identification (Third Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,796 Views
18 Pages

14 May 2024

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) technology is dedicated to continuously tracking multiple targets of interest in a sequence of images and accurately identifying their specific positions at different times. This technology is crucial in key application ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,089 Views
22 Pages

27 August 2025

Multi-object tracking (MOT) algorithms are a key research direction in the field of computer vision. Among them, the joint detection and embedding (JDE) method, with its excellent speed and accuracy performance, has become the current mainstream solu...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,434 Views
15 Pages

Online Multiple Object Tracking Using a Novel Discriminative Module for Autonomous Driving

  • Jia Chen,
  • Fan Wang,
  • Chunjiang Li,
  • Yingjie Zhang and ,
  • Yibo Ai and
  • Weidong Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 October 2021

Multi object tracking (MOT) is a key research technology in the environment sensing system of automatic driving, which is very important to driving safety. Online multi object tracking needs to accurately extend the trajectory of multiple objects wit...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,251 Views
20 Pages

10 October 2025

The integration of semantic simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with 3D object detection in indoor scenes is a significant challenge in the field of robot perception. Existing methods typically rely on expensive sensors and lack robustness a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,650 Views
18 Pages

Real-Time Multiobject Tracking Based on Multiway Concurrency

  • Xuan Gong,
  • Zichun Le,
  • Yukun Wu and
  • Hui Wang

20 January 2021

This paper explored a pragmatic approach to research the real-time performance of a multiway concurrent multiobject tracking (MOT) system. At present, most research has focused on the tracking of single-image sequences, but in practical applications,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Object Tracking and Motion Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
849 Views
20 Pages

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a key technology for enabling autonomous navigation of unmanned surface vehicle (USV) as it provides continuous perception of surrounding maritime targets and supports navigation decision-making. However, videos acquire...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Technologies in Autonomous Ship Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,203 Views
10 Pages

26 June 2024

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims at estimating locations and identities of objects in videos. Many modern multiple-object tracking systems follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm, consisting of a detector followed by a method for associating detect...

(This article belongs to the Section AI in Autonomous Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,996 Views
22 Pages

Intra-Frame Graph Structure and Inter-Frame Bipartite Graph Matching with ReID-Based Occlusion Resilience for Point Cloud Multi-Object Tracking

  • Shaoyu Sun,
  • Chunhao Shi,
  • Chunyang Wang,
  • Qing Zhou and ,
  • Rongliang Sun,
  • Bo Xiao,
  • Yueyang Ding and
  • Guan Xi
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Three-dimensional multi-object tracking (MOT) using lidar point cloud data is crucial for applications in autonomous driving, smart cities, and robotic navigation. It involves identifying objects in point cloud sequence data and consistently assignin...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
748 Views
28 Pages

DeepSORT-OCR: Design and Application Research of a Maritime Ship Target Tracking Algorithm Incorporating Hull Number Features

  • Jing Ma,
  • Xihang Su,
  • Kehui Xu,
  • Hongliang Yin and ,
  • Zhihong Xiao,
  • Jiale Wang and
  • Peng Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 March 2026

Maritime ship target tracking plays an important role in applications such as maritime patrol and maritime surveillance. However, complex sea conditions, similar target appearances, and long-distance imaging often lead to target identity confusion an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control Theory for Multi-Agent Systems: Recent Advances and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,267 Views
20 Pages

eNightTrack: Restraint-Free Depth-Camera-Based Surveillance and Alarm System for Fall Prevention Using Deep Learning Tracking

  • Ye-Jiao Mao,
  • Andy Yiu-Chau Tam,
  • Queenie Tsung-Kwan Shea,
  • Yong-Ping Zheng and
  • James Chung-Wai Cheung

12 October 2023

Falls are a major problem in hospitals, and physical or chemical restraints are commonly used to “protect” patients in hospitals and service users in hostels, especially elderly patients with dementia. However, physical and chemical restr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Healthcare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,925 Views
18 Pages

Tracking and Behavior Analysis of Group-Housed Pigs Based on a Multi-Object Tracking Approach

  • Shuqin Tu,
  • Jiaying Du,
  • Yun Liang,
  • Yuefei Cao and ,
  • Weidian Chen,
  • Deqin Xiao and
  • Qiong Huang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 September 2024

Smart farming technologies to track and analyze pig behaviors in natural environments are critical for monitoring the health status and welfare of pigs. This study aimed to develop a robust multi-object tracking (MOT) approach named YOLOv8 + OC-SORT(...

(This article belongs to the Section Pigs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,337 Views
22 Pages

12 February 2024

Models based on joint detection and re-identification (ReID), which significantly increase the efficiency of online multi-object tracking (MOT) systems, are an evolution from separate detection and ReID models in the tracking-by-detection (TBD) parad...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Object Tracking and Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,146 Views
19 Pages

An Improved End-to-End Multi-Target Tracking Method Based on Transformer Self-Attention

  • Yong Hong,
  • Deren Li,
  • Shupei Luo,
  • Xin Chen and ,
  • Yi Yang and
  • Mi Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 December 2022

Current multi-target multi-camera tracking algorithms demand increased requirements for re-identification accuracy and tracking reliability. This study proposed an improved end-to-end multi-target tracking algorithm that adapts to multi-view multi-sc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies for Position and Navigation under GNSS Signal Challenging or Denied Environments II)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,698 Views
18 Pages

SDGTrack: A Multi-Target Tracking Method for Pigs in Multiple Farming Scenarios

  • Tao Liu,
  • Dengfei Jie,
  • Junwei Zhuang,
  • Dehui Zhang and
  • Jincheng He

24 May 2025

In pig farming, multi-object tracking (MOT) algorithms are effective tools for identifying individual pigs and monitoring their health, which enhances management efficiency and intelligence. However, due to the considerable variation in breeding envi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling and Computer Vision in Animal Activity or Behavior: 2nd Edition)

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