Crack length measurement algorithms based on computer vision have shown promising engineering application prospects in the field of aircraft fatigue crack monitoring.However,due to the complexity of the monitoring env...Crack length measurement algorithms based on computer vision have shown promising engineering application prospects in the field of aircraft fatigue crack monitoring.However,due to the complexity of the monitoring environment,the subtle visual features of small fatigue cracks,and the impact of structural elastic deformation,directly applying object segmentation algorithms often results in significant measurement errors.Therefore,this paper proposes a high-precision crack length measurement method based on Bidirectional Target Tracking Model(Bi2TM),which integrates crack tip localization,interference identification,and length compensation.First,a general object segmentation model is used to perform rough crack segmentation.Then,the Bi2TM network,combined with the visual features of the structure in different stress states,is employed to track the bidirectional position of the crack tip in the“open”and“closed”states.This ultimately enables interference identification within the rough segmented crack region,achieving highprecision length measurement.In a high-interference environment of aircraft fatigue testing,the proposed method is used to measure 1000 crack images ranging from 1 mm to 11 mm.For more than 90%of the samples,the measurement error is less than 5 pixels,demonstrating significant advantages over the existing methods.展开更多
Visual object tracking(VOT),aiming to track a target object in a continuous video,is a fundamental and critical task in computer vision.However,the reliance on third-party resources(e.g.,dataset)for training poses con...Visual object tracking(VOT),aiming to track a target object in a continuous video,is a fundamental and critical task in computer vision.However,the reliance on third-party resources(e.g.,dataset)for training poses concealed threats to the security of VOT models.In this paper,we reveal that VOT models are vulnerable to a poison-only and targeted backdoor attack,where the adversary can achieve arbitrary tracking predictions by manipulating only part of the training data.Specifically,we first define and formulate three different variants of the targeted attacks:size-manipulation,trajectory-manipulation,and hybrid attacks.To implement these,we introduce Random Video Poisoning(RVP),a novel poison-only strategy that exploits temporal correlations within video data by poisoning entire video sequences.Extensive experiments demonstrate that RVP effectively injects controllable backdoors,enabling precise manipulation of tracking behavior upon trigger activation,while maintaining high performance on benign data,thus ensuring stealth.Our findings not only expose significant vulnerabilities but also highlight that the underlying principles could be adapted for beneficial uses,such as dataset watermarking for copyright protection.展开更多
Advancements in animal behavior quantification methods have driven the development of computational ethology,enabling fully automated behavior analysis.Existing multianimal pose estimation workflows rely on tracking-b...Advancements in animal behavior quantification methods have driven the development of computational ethology,enabling fully automated behavior analysis.Existing multianimal pose estimation workflows rely on tracking-bydetection frameworks for either bottom-up or top-down approaches,requiring retraining to accommodate diverse animal appearances.This study introduces InteBOMB,an integrated workflow that enhances top-down approaches by incorporating generic object tracking,eliminating the need for prior knowledge of target animals while maintaining broad generalizability.InteBOMB includes two key strategies for tracking and segmentation in laboratory environments and two techniques for pose estimation in natural settings.The“background enhancement”strategy optimizesforeground-backgroundcontrastiveloss,generating more discriminative correlation maps.The“online proofreading”strategy stores human-in-the-loop long-term memory and dynamic short-term memory,enabling adaptive updates to object visual features.The“automated labeling suggestion”technique reuses the visual features saved during tracking to identify representative frames for training set labeling.Additionally,the“joint behavior analysis”technique integrates these features with multimodal data,expanding the latent space for behavior classification and clustering.To evaluate the framework,six datasets of mice and six datasets of nonhuman primates were compiled,covering laboratory and natural scenes.Benchmarking results demonstrated a24%improvement in zero-shot generic tracking and a 21%enhancement in joint latent space performance across datasets,highlighting the effectiveness of this approach in robust,generalizable behavior analysis.展开更多
To improve small object detection and trajectory estimation from an aerial moving perspective,we propose the Aerial View Attention-PRB(AVA-PRB)model.AVA-PRB integrates two attention mechanisms—Coordinate Attention(CA...To improve small object detection and trajectory estimation from an aerial moving perspective,we propose the Aerial View Attention-PRB(AVA-PRB)model.AVA-PRB integrates two attention mechanisms—Coordinate Attention(CA)and the Convolutional Block Attention Module(CBAM)—to enhance detection accuracy.Additionally,Shape-IoU is employed as the loss function to refine localization precision.Our model further incorporates an adaptive feature fusion mechanism,which optimizes multi-scale object representation,ensuring robust tracking in complex aerial environments.We evaluate the performance of AVA-PRB on two benchmark datasets:Aerial Person Detection and VisDrone2019-Det.The model achieves 60.9%mAP@0.5 on the Aerial Person Detection dataset,and 51.2%mAP@0.5 on VisDrone2019-Det,demonstrating its effectiveness in aerial object detection.Beyond detection,we propose a novel trajectory estimation method that improves movement path prediction under aerial motion.Experimental results indicate that our approach reduces path deviation by up to 64%,effectively mitigating errors caused by rapid camera movements and background variations.By optimizing feature extraction and enhancing spatialtemporal coherence,our method significantly improves object tracking under aerial moving perspectives.This research addresses the limitations of fixed-camera tracking,enhancing flexibility and accuracy in aerial tracking applications.The proposed approach has broad potential for real-world applications,including surveillance,traffic monitoring,and environmental observation.展开更多
An object model-based tracking method is useful for tracking multiple objects, but the main difficulties are modeling objects reliably and tracking objects via models in successive frames. An effective tracking method...An object model-based tracking method is useful for tracking multiple objects, but the main difficulties are modeling objects reliably and tracking objects via models in successive frames. An effective tracking method using the object models is proposed to track multiple objects in a real-time visual surveillance system. Firstly, for detecting objects, an adaptive kernel density estimation method is utilized, which uses an adaptive bandwidth and features combining colour and gradient. Secondly, some models of objects are built for describing motion, shape and colour features. Then, a matching matrix is formed to analyze tracking situations. If objects are tracked under occlusions, the optimal ＂visual＂ object is found to represent the occluded object, and the posterior probability of pixel is used to determine which pixel is utilized for updating object models. Extensive experiments show that this method improves the accuracy and validity of tracking objects even under occlusions and is used in real-time visual surveillance systems.展开更多
A literature analysis has shown that object search,recognition,and tracking systems are becoming increasingly popular.However,such systems do not achieve high practical results in analyzing small moving living objects...A literature analysis has shown that object search,recognition,and tracking systems are becoming increasingly popular.However,such systems do not achieve high practical results in analyzing small moving living objects ranging from 8 to 14 mm.This article examines methods and tools for recognizing and tracking the class of small moving objects,such as ants.To fulfill those aims,a customized You Only Look Once Ants Recognition(YOLO_AR)Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)has been trained to recognize Messor Structor ants in the laboratory using the LabelImg object marker tool.The proposed model is an extension of the You Only Look Once v4(Yolov4)512×512 model with an additional Self Regularized Non–Monotonic(Mish)activation function.Additionally,the scalable solution for continuous object recognizing and tracking was implemented.This solution is based on the OpenDatacam system,with extended Object Tracking modules that allow for tracking and counting objects that have crossed the custom boundary line.During the study,the methods of the alignment algorithm for finding the trajectory of moving objects were modified.I discovered that the Hungarian algorithm showed better results in tracking small objects than the K–D dimensional tree(k-d tree)matching algorithm used in OpenDataCam.Remarkably,such an algorithm showed better results with the implemented YOLO_AR model due to the lack of False Positives(FP).Therefore,I provided a new tracker module with a Hungarian matching algorithm verified on the Multiple Object Tracking(MOT)benchmark.Furthermore,additional customization parameters for object recognition and tracking results parsing and filtering were added,like boundary angle threshold(BAT)and past frames trajectory prediction(PFTP).Experimental tests confirmed the results of the study on a mobile device.During the experiment,parameters such as the quality of recognition and tracking of moving objects,the PFTP and BAT,and the configuration parameters of the neural network and boundary line model were analyzed.The results showed an increased tracking accuracy with the proposed methods by 50%.The study results confirmed the relevance of the topic and the effectiveness of the implemented methods and tools.展开更多
MGAC (Motion Geometric Active Contours), a new variational framework of geometric active contours to track multiple nonrigid moving objects in the clutter background in image sequences is presented. This framework, in...MGAC (Motion Geometric Active Contours), a new variational framework of geometric active contours to track multiple nonrigid moving objects in the clutter background in image sequences is presented. This framework, incorporating with the motion edge information, consists of motion detection and tracking stages. At the motion detection stage, the motion edge map provides an approximate edge map of the moving objects. Then, a tracking stage, merely using the static edge information, is considered to improve the motion detection result. Force field regularization method is used to extend the capture range of the edge attraction force field in both stages. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework is valid for tracking multiple nonrigid objects in the clutter background.展开更多
Visual object tracking plays a crucial role in computer vision.In recent years,researchers have proposed various methods to achieve high-performance object tracking.Among these,methods based on Transformers have becom...Visual object tracking plays a crucial role in computer vision.In recent years,researchers have proposed various methods to achieve high-performance object tracking.Among these,methods based on Transformers have become a research hotspot due to their ability to globally model and contextualize information.However,current Transformer-based object tracking methods still face challenges such as low tracking accuracy and the presence of redundant feature information.In this paper,we introduce self-calibration multi-head self-attention Transformer(SMSTracker)as a solution to these challenges.It employs a hybrid tensor decomposition self-organizing multihead self-attention transformermechanism,which not only compresses and accelerates Transformer operations but also significantly reduces redundant data,thereby enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of tracking.Additionally,we introduce a self-calibration attention fusion block to resolve common issues of attention ambiguities and inconsistencies found in traditional trackingmethods,ensuring the stability and reliability of tracking performance across various scenarios.By integrating a hybrid tensor decomposition approach with a self-organizingmulti-head self-attentive transformer mechanism,SMSTracker enhances the efficiency and accuracy of the tracking process.Experimental results show that SMSTracker achieves competitive performance in visual object tracking,promising more robust and efficient tracking systems,demonstrating its potential to providemore robust and efficient tracking solutions in real-world applications.展开更多
Indoor multi-tracking is more challenging compared with outdoor tasks due to frequent occlusion, view-truncation, severe scale change and pose variation, which may bring considerable unreliability and ambiguity to tar...Indoor multi-tracking is more challenging compared with outdoor tasks due to frequent occlusion, view-truncation, severe scale change and pose variation, which may bring considerable unreliability and ambiguity to target representation and data association. So discriminative and reliable target representation is vital for accurate data association in multi-tracking. Pervious works always combine bunch of features to increase the discriminative power, but this is prone to error accumulation and unnecessary computational cost, which may increase ambiguity on the contrary. Moreover, reliability of a same feature in different scenes may vary a lot, especially for currently widespread network cameras, which are settled in various and complex indoor scenes, previous fixed feature selection schemes cannot meet general requirements. To properly handle these problems, first, we propose a scene-adaptive hierarchical data association scheme, which adaptively selects features with higher reliability on target representation in the applied scene, and gradually combines features to the minimum requirement of discriminating ambiguous targets; second, a novel depth-invariant part-based appearance model using RGB-D data is proposed which makes the appearance model robust to scale change, partial occlusion and view-truncation. The introduce of RGB-D data increases the diversity of features, which provides more types of features for feature selection in data association and enhances the final multi-tracking performance. We validate our method from several aspects including scene-adaptive feature selection scheme, hierarchical data association scheme and RGB-D based appearance modeling scheme in various indoor scenes, which demonstrates its effectiveness and efficiency on improving multi-tracking performances in various indoor scenes.展开更多
Significant advancements have beenwitnessed in visual tracking applications leveragingViT in recent years,mainly due to the formidablemodeling capabilities of Vision Transformer(ViT).However,the strong performance of ...Significant advancements have beenwitnessed in visual tracking applications leveragingViT in recent years,mainly due to the formidablemodeling capabilities of Vision Transformer(ViT).However,the strong performance of such trackers heavily relies on ViT models pretrained for long periods,limitingmore flexible model designs for tracking tasks.To address this issue,we propose an efficient unsupervised ViT pretraining method for the tracking task based on masked autoencoders,called TrackMAE.During pretraining,we employ two shared-parameter ViTs,serving as the appearance encoder and motion encoder,respectively.The appearance encoder encodes randomly masked image data,while the motion encoder encodes randomly masked pairs of video frames.Subsequently,an appearance decoder and a motion decoder separately reconstruct the original image data and video frame data at the pixel level.In this way,ViT learns to understand both the appearance of images and the motion between video frames simultaneously.Experimental results demonstrate that ViT-Base and ViT-Large models,pretrained with TrackMAE and combined with a simple tracking head,achieve state-of-the-art(SOTA)performance without additional design.Moreover,compared to the currently popular MAE pretraining methods,TrackMAE consumes only 1/5 of the training time,which will facilitate the customization of diverse models for tracking.For instance,we additionally customize a lightweight ViT-XS,which achieves SOTA efficient tracking performance.展开更多
The amount of needed control messages in wireless sensor networks(WSN)is affected by the storage strategy of detected events.Because broadcasting superfluous control messages consumes excess energy,the network lifespa...The amount of needed control messages in wireless sensor networks(WSN)is affected by the storage strategy of detected events.Because broadcasting superfluous control messages consumes excess energy,the network lifespan can be extended if the quantity of control messages is decreased.In this study,an optimized storage technique having low control overhead for tracking the objects in WSN is introduced.The basic concept is to retain observed events in internal memory and preserve the relationship between sensed information and sensor nodes using a novel inexpensive data structure entitled Ordered Binary Linked List(OBLL).Whenever an object passes over the sensor area,the recognizing sensor can immediately produce an OBLL along the object’s route.To retrieve the entire information,the OBLL can be traversed with logarithmic complexity which is much less than the traversing complexity of existing linked list structures.Performance evaluation and simulations were carried out to ensure that the suggested technique minimizes the number of messages and thus saving energy and extending the network life.展开更多
Visual object tracking is an important issue that has received long-term attention in computer vision.The ability to effectively handle occlusion,especially severe occlusion,is an important aspect of evaluating the pe...Visual object tracking is an important issue that has received long-term attention in computer vision.The ability to effectively handle occlusion,especially severe occlusion,is an important aspect of evaluating the performance of object tracking algorithms in long-term tracking,and is of great significance to improving the robustness of object tracking algorithms.However,most object tracking algorithms lack a processing mechanism specifically for occlusion.In the case of occlusion,due to the lack of target information,it is necessary to predict the target position based on the motion trajectory.Kalman filtering and particle filtering can effectively predict the target motion state based on the historical motion information.A single object tracking method,called probabilistic discriminative model prediction(PrDiMP),is based on the spatial attention mechanism in complex scenes and occlusions.In order to improve the performance of PrDiMP,Kalman filtering,particle filtering and linear filtering are introduced.First,for the occlusion situation,Kalman filtering and particle filtering are respectively introduced to predict the object position,thereby replacing the detection result of the original tracking algorithm and stopping recursion of target model.Second,for detection-jump problem of similar objects in complex scenes,a linear filtering window is added.The evaluation results on the three datasets,including GOT-10k,UAV123 and LaSOT,and the visualization results on several videos,show that our algorithms have improved tracking performance under occlusion and the detection-jump is effectively suppressed.展开更多
Droplet microfluidics,which encapsulates individual cells within separate microreactors,has become an essential tool for single-cell phenotypic and genotypic analysis.However,the efficiency of single-cell encapsulatio...Droplet microfluidics,which encapsulates individual cells within separate microreactors,has become an essential tool for single-cell phenotypic and genotypic analysis.However,the efficiency of single-cell encapsulation is limited by the Poisson distribution governing the encapsulation process,resulting in most droplets being either empty or containing multiple cells.Traditional single-cell sorting methods typically rely on fluorescence labeling for identification,but this approach not only increases experimental costs and complexity but can also impact cell viability.Additionally,current label-free sorting methods still encounter difficulties in accurately detecting multicellular droplets and small cellular aggregates.To address these challenges,this paper proposes an intelligent sorting system that combines YOLOv8 object detection and BoTSORT tracking algorithms.This system enables real-time analysis of droplet images,facilitating precise identification,counting,and automated sorting of target droplets.To validate the system’s performance,polystyrene microspheres were used to simulate real cells in sorting tests.The results demonstrated that,under label-free conditions,the system significantly outperformed traditional fluorescence labeling methods in both classification accuracy and sorting efficiency.This system provides an effective,label-free solution for cell sorting,with potential applications in precision medicine,single-cell sequencing,and drug screening.展开更多
Visual object-tracking is a fundamental task applied in many applications of computer vision. Particle filter is one of the techniques which has been widely used in object tracking. Due to the virtue of extendability ...Visual object-tracking is a fundamental task applied in many applications of computer vision. Particle filter is one of the techniques which has been widely used in object tracking. Due to the virtue of extendability and flexibility on both linear and non-linear environments, various particle filter-based trackers have been proposed in the literature. However, the conventional approach cannot handle very large videos efficiently in the current data intensive information age. In this work, a parallelized particle filter is provided in a distributed framework provided by the Hadoop/Map-Reduce infrastructure to tackle object-tracking tasks. The experiments indicate that the proposed algorithm has a better convergence and accuracy as compared to the traditional particle filter. The computational power and the scalability of the proposed particle filter in single object tracking have been enhanced as well.展开更多
An improved estimation of motion vectors of feature points is proposed for tracking moving objects of dynamic image sequence. Feature points are firstly extracted by the improved minimum intensity change （MIC） algor...An improved estimation of motion vectors of feature points is proposed for tracking moving objects of dynamic image sequence. Feature points are firstly extracted by the improved minimum intensity change （MIC） algorithm. The matching points of these feature points are then determined by adaptive rood pattern searching. Based on the random sample consensus （RANSAC） method, the background motion is finally compensated by the parameters of an affine transform of the background motion. With reasonable morphological filtering, the moving objects are completely extracted from the background, and then tracked accurately. Experimental results show that the improved method is successful on the motion background compensation and offers great promise in tracking moving objects of the dynamic image sequence.展开更多
In practical application,mean shift tracking algorithm is easy to generate tracking drift when the target and the background have similar color distribution.Based on the mean shift algorithm,a kind of background weake...In practical application,mean shift tracking algorithm is easy to generate tracking drift when the target and the background have similar color distribution.Based on the mean shift algorithm,a kind of background weaken weight is proposed in the paper firstly.Combining with the object center weight based on the kernel function,the problem of interference of the similar color background can be solved.And then,a model updating strategy is presented to improve the tracking robustness on the influence of occlusion,illumination,deformation and so on.With the test on the sequence of Tiger,the proposed approach provides better performance than the original mean shift tracking algorithm.展开更多
There are two main trends in the development of unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)technologies:miniaturization and intellectualization,in which realizing object tracking capabilities for a nano-scale UAV is one of the most ...There are two main trends in the development of unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)technologies:miniaturization and intellectualization,in which realizing object tracking capabilities for a nano-scale UAV is one of the most challenging problems.In this paper,we present a visual object tracking and servoing control system utilizing a tailor-made 38 g nano-scale quadrotor.A lightweight visual module is integrated to enable object tracking capabilities,and a micro positioning deck is mounted to provide accurate pose estimation.In order to be robust against object appearance variations,a novel object tracking algorithm,denoted by RMCTer,is proposed,which integrates a powerful short-term tracking module and an efficient long-term processing module.In particular,the long-term processing module can provide additional object information and modify the short-term tracking model in a timely manner.Furthermore,a positionbased visual servoing control method is proposed for the quadrotor,where an adaptive tracking controller is designed by leveraging backstepping and adaptive techniques.Stable and accurate object tracking is achieved even under disturbances.Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the high accuracy and stability of the whole tracking system.展开更多
Recently,deep learning has been widely utilized for object tracking tasks.However,deep learning encounters limits in tasks such as Autonomous Aerial Refueling(AAR),where the target object can vary substantially in siz...Recently,deep learning has been widely utilized for object tracking tasks.However,deep learning encounters limits in tasks such as Autonomous Aerial Refueling(AAR),where the target object can vary substantially in size,requiring high-precision real-time performance in embedded systems.This paper presents a novel embedded adaptiveness single-object tracking framework based on an improved YOLOv4 detection approach and an n-fold Bernoulli probability theorem.First,an Asymmetric Convolutional Network(ACNet)and dense blocks are combined with the YOLOv4 architecture to detect small objects with high precision when similar objects are in the background.The prior object information,such as its location in the previous frame and its speed,is utilized to adaptively track objects of various sizes.Moreover,based on the n-fold Bernoulli probability theorem,we develop a filter that uses statistical laws to reduce the false positive rate of object tracking.To evaluate the efficiency of our algorithm,a new AAR dataset is collected,and extensive AAR detection and tracking experiments are performed.The results demonstrate that our improved detection algorithm is better than the original YOLOv4 algorithm on small and similar object detection tasks;the object tracking algorithm is better than state-of-the-art object tracking algorithms on refueling drogue tracking tasks.展开更多
Collaborative Robotics is one of the high-interest research topics in the area of academia and industry.It has been progressively utilized in numerous applications,particularly in intelligent surveillance systems.It a...Collaborative Robotics is one of the high-interest research topics in the area of academia and industry.It has been progressively utilized in numerous applications,particularly in intelligent surveillance systems.It allows the deployment of smart cameras or optical sensors with computer vision techniques,which may serve in several object detection and tracking tasks.These tasks have been considered challenging and high-level perceptual problems,frequently dominated by relative information about the environment,where main concerns such as occlusion,illumination,background,object deformation,and object class variations are commonplace.In order to show the importance of top view surveillance,a collaborative robotics framework has been presented.It can assist in the detection and tracking of multiple objects in top view surveillance.The framework consists of a smart robotic camera embedded with the visual processing unit.The existing pre-trained deep learning models named SSD and YOLO has been adopted for object detection and localization.The detection models are further combined with different tracking algorithms,including GOTURN,MEDIANFLOW,TLD,KCF,MIL,and BOOSTING.These algorithms,along with detection models,help to track and predict the trajectories of detected objects.The pre-trained models are employed;therefore,the generalization performance is also investigated through testing the models on various sequences of top view data set.The detection models achieved maximum True Detection Rate 93%to 90%with a maximum 0.6%False Detection Rate.The tracking results of different algorithms are nearly identical,with tracking accuracy ranging from 90%to 94%.Furthermore,a discussion has been carried out on output results along with future guidelines.展开更多
This paper describes a new framework for object detection and tracking of AUV including underwater acoustic data interpolation, underwater acoustic images segmentation and underwater objects tracking. This framework i...This paper describes a new framework for object detection and tracking of AUV including underwater acoustic data interpolation, underwater acoustic images segmentation and underwater objects tracking. This framework is applied to the design of vision-based method for AUV based on the forward looking sonar sensor. First, the real-time data flow （underwater acoustic images） is pre-processed to form the whole underwater acoustic image, and the relevant position information of objects is extracted and determined. An improved method of double threshold segmentation is proposed to resolve the problem that the threshold cannot be adjusted adaptively in the traditional method. Second, a representation of region information is created in light of the Gaussian particle filter. The weighted integration strategy combining the area and invariant moment is proposed to perfect the weight of particles and to enhance the tracking robustness. Results obtained on the real acoustic vision platform of AUV during sea trials are displayed and discussed. They show that the proposed method can detect and track the moving objects underwater online, and it is effective and robust.展开更多
基金supported by the New Cornerstone Science Foundation through the XPLORER PRIZE,China(No.XPLORER-2024-1036)the independent research project of the National Key Laboratory of Strength and Structural Integrity,China(No.BYST-QZSYS-24-072-5)。
文摘Crack length measurement algorithms based on computer vision have shown promising engineering application prospects in the field of aircraft fatigue crack monitoring.However,due to the complexity of the monitoring environment,the subtle visual features of small fatigue cracks,and the impact of structural elastic deformation,directly applying object segmentation algorithms often results in significant measurement errors.Therefore,this paper proposes a high-precision crack length measurement method based on Bidirectional Target Tracking Model(Bi2TM),which integrates crack tip localization,interference identification,and length compensation.First,a general object segmentation model is used to perform rough crack segmentation.Then,the Bi2TM network,combined with the visual features of the structure in different stress states,is employed to track the bidirectional position of the crack tip in the“open”and“closed”states.This ultimately enables interference identification within the rough segmented crack region,achieving highprecision length measurement.In a high-interference environment of aircraft fatigue testing,the proposed method is used to measure 1000 crack images ranging from 1 mm to 11 mm.For more than 90%of the samples,the measurement error is less than 5 pixels,demonstrating significant advantages over the existing methods.
基金supported in part by the"Pioneer"and"Leading Goose"R&D Program of Zhejiang under Grant No. 2024C01169the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 62441238 and U2441240。
文摘Visual object tracking(VOT),aiming to track a target object in a continuous video,is a fundamental and critical task in computer vision.However,the reliance on third-party resources(e.g.,dataset)for training poses concealed threats to the security of VOT models.In this paper,we reveal that VOT models are vulnerable to a poison-only and targeted backdoor attack,where the adversary can achieve arbitrary tracking predictions by manipulating only part of the training data.Specifically,we first define and formulate three different variants of the targeted attacks:size-manipulation,trajectory-manipulation,and hybrid attacks.To implement these,we introduce Random Video Poisoning(RVP),a novel poison-only strategy that exploits temporal correlations within video data by poisoning entire video sequences.Extensive experiments demonstrate that RVP effectively injects controllable backdoors,enabling precise manipulation of tracking behavior upon trigger activation,while maintaining high performance on benign data,thus ensuring stealth.Our findings not only expose significant vulnerabilities but also highlight that the underlying principles could be adapted for beneficial uses,such as dataset watermarking for copyright protection.
基金supported by the STI 2030-Major Projects(2022ZD0211900,2022ZD0211902)STI 2030-Major Projects(2021ZD0204500,2021ZD0204503)+1 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(32171461)National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023YFC3208303)。
文摘Advancements in animal behavior quantification methods have driven the development of computational ethology,enabling fully automated behavior analysis.Existing multianimal pose estimation workflows rely on tracking-bydetection frameworks for either bottom-up or top-down approaches,requiring retraining to accommodate diverse animal appearances.This study introduces InteBOMB,an integrated workflow that enhances top-down approaches by incorporating generic object tracking,eliminating the need for prior knowledge of target animals while maintaining broad generalizability.InteBOMB includes two key strategies for tracking and segmentation in laboratory environments and two techniques for pose estimation in natural settings.The“background enhancement”strategy optimizesforeground-backgroundcontrastiveloss,generating more discriminative correlation maps.The“online proofreading”strategy stores human-in-the-loop long-term memory and dynamic short-term memory,enabling adaptive updates to object visual features.The“automated labeling suggestion”technique reuses the visual features saved during tracking to identify representative frames for training set labeling.Additionally,the“joint behavior analysis”technique integrates these features with multimodal data,expanding the latent space for behavior classification and clustering.To evaluate the framework,six datasets of mice and six datasets of nonhuman primates were compiled,covering laboratory and natural scenes.Benchmarking results demonstrated a24%improvement in zero-shot generic tracking and a 21%enhancement in joint latent space performance across datasets,highlighting the effectiveness of this approach in robust,generalizable behavior analysis.
基金funded by theNational Science and TechnologyCouncil(NSTC),Taiwan,under grant numbers NSTC 113-2634-F-A49-007 and NSTC 112-2634-F-A49-007.
文摘To improve small object detection and trajectory estimation from an aerial moving perspective,we propose the Aerial View Attention-PRB(AVA-PRB)model.AVA-PRB integrates two attention mechanisms—Coordinate Attention(CA)and the Convolutional Block Attention Module(CBAM)—to enhance detection accuracy.Additionally,Shape-IoU is employed as the loss function to refine localization precision.Our model further incorporates an adaptive feature fusion mechanism,which optimizes multi-scale object representation,ensuring robust tracking in complex aerial environments.We evaluate the performance of AVA-PRB on two benchmark datasets:Aerial Person Detection and VisDrone2019-Det.The model achieves 60.9%mAP@0.5 on the Aerial Person Detection dataset,and 51.2%mAP@0.5 on VisDrone2019-Det,demonstrating its effectiveness in aerial object detection.Beyond detection,we propose a novel trajectory estimation method that improves movement path prediction under aerial motion.Experimental results indicate that our approach reduces path deviation by up to 64%,effectively mitigating errors caused by rapid camera movements and background variations.By optimizing feature extraction and enhancing spatialtemporal coherence,our method significantly improves object tracking under aerial moving perspectives.This research addresses the limitations of fixed-camera tracking,enhancing flexibility and accuracy in aerial tracking applications.The proposed approach has broad potential for real-world applications,including surveillance,traffic monitoring,and environmental observation.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(60835004 60775047+2 种基金 60872130)the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program)(2007AA04Z244 2008AA04Z214)
文摘An object model-based tracking method is useful for tracking multiple objects, but the main difficulties are modeling objects reliably and tracking objects via models in successive frames. An effective tracking method using the object models is proposed to track multiple objects in a real-time visual surveillance system. Firstly, for detecting objects, an adaptive kernel density estimation method is utilized, which uses an adaptive bandwidth and features combining colour and gradient. Secondly, some models of objects are built for describing motion, shape and colour features. Then, a matching matrix is formed to analyze tracking situations. If objects are tracked under occlusions, the optimal ＂visual＂ object is found to represent the occluded object, and the posterior probability of pixel is used to determine which pixel is utilized for updating object models. Extensive experiments show that this method improves the accuracy and validity of tracking objects even under occlusions and is used in real-time visual surveillance systems.
文摘A literature analysis has shown that object search,recognition,and tracking systems are becoming increasingly popular.However,such systems do not achieve high practical results in analyzing small moving living objects ranging from 8 to 14 mm.This article examines methods and tools for recognizing and tracking the class of small moving objects,such as ants.To fulfill those aims,a customized You Only Look Once Ants Recognition(YOLO_AR)Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)has been trained to recognize Messor Structor ants in the laboratory using the LabelImg object marker tool.The proposed model is an extension of the You Only Look Once v4(Yolov4)512×512 model with an additional Self Regularized Non–Monotonic(Mish)activation function.Additionally,the scalable solution for continuous object recognizing and tracking was implemented.This solution is based on the OpenDatacam system,with extended Object Tracking modules that allow for tracking and counting objects that have crossed the custom boundary line.During the study,the methods of the alignment algorithm for finding the trajectory of moving objects were modified.I discovered that the Hungarian algorithm showed better results in tracking small objects than the K–D dimensional tree(k-d tree)matching algorithm used in OpenDataCam.Remarkably,such an algorithm showed better results with the implemented YOLO_AR model due to the lack of False Positives(FP).Therefore,I provided a new tracker module with a Hungarian matching algorithm verified on the Multiple Object Tracking(MOT)benchmark.Furthermore,additional customization parameters for object recognition and tracking results parsing and filtering were added,like boundary angle threshold(BAT)and past frames trajectory prediction(PFTP).Experimental tests confirmed the results of the study on a mobile device.During the experiment,parameters such as the quality of recognition and tracking of moving objects,the PFTP and BAT,and the configuration parameters of the neural network and boundary line model were analyzed.The results showed an increased tracking accuracy with the proposed methods by 50%.The study results confirmed the relevance of the topic and the effectiveness of the implemented methods and tools.
文摘MGAC (Motion Geometric Active Contours), a new variational framework of geometric active contours to track multiple nonrigid moving objects in the clutter background in image sequences is presented. This framework, incorporating with the motion edge information, consists of motion detection and tracking stages. At the motion detection stage, the motion edge map provides an approximate edge map of the moving objects. Then, a tracking stage, merely using the static edge information, is considered to improve the motion detection result. Force field regularization method is used to extend the capture range of the edge attraction force field in both stages. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework is valid for tracking multiple nonrigid objects in the clutter background.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62177029the Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province(KYCX21_0740),China.
文摘Visual object tracking plays a crucial role in computer vision.In recent years,researchers have proposed various methods to achieve high-performance object tracking.Among these,methods based on Transformers have become a research hotspot due to their ability to globally model and contextualize information.However,current Transformer-based object tracking methods still face challenges such as low tracking accuracy and the presence of redundant feature information.In this paper,we introduce self-calibration multi-head self-attention Transformer(SMSTracker)as a solution to these challenges.It employs a hybrid tensor decomposition self-organizing multihead self-attention transformermechanism,which not only compresses and accelerates Transformer operations but also significantly reduces redundant data,thereby enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of tracking.Additionally,we introduce a self-calibration attention fusion block to resolve common issues of attention ambiguities and inconsistencies found in traditional trackingmethods,ensuring the stability and reliability of tracking performance across various scenarios.By integrating a hybrid tensor decomposition approach with a self-organizingmulti-head self-attentive transformer mechanism,SMSTracker enhances the efficiency and accuracy of the tracking process.Experimental results show that SMSTracker achieves competitive performance in visual object tracking,promising more robust and efficient tracking systems,demonstrating its potential to providemore robust and efficient tracking solutions in real-world applications.
基金This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China （NSFC, No. 61340046）, National High Technology Research and Development Program of China （863 Program, No. 2006AA04Z247）, Scientific and Technical Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality （JCYJ20130331144631730, JCYJ20130331144716089）, Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education （No. 20130001110011）.
文摘Indoor multi-tracking is more challenging compared with outdoor tasks due to frequent occlusion, view-truncation, severe scale change and pose variation, which may bring considerable unreliability and ambiguity to target representation and data association. So discriminative and reliable target representation is vital for accurate data association in multi-tracking. Pervious works always combine bunch of features to increase the discriminative power, but this is prone to error accumulation and unnecessary computational cost, which may increase ambiguity on the contrary. Moreover, reliability of a same feature in different scenes may vary a lot, especially for currently widespread network cameras, which are settled in various and complex indoor scenes, previous fixed feature selection schemes cannot meet general requirements. To properly handle these problems, first, we propose a scene-adaptive hierarchical data association scheme, which adaptively selects features with higher reliability on target representation in the applied scene, and gradually combines features to the minimum requirement of discriminating ambiguous targets; second, a novel depth-invariant part-based appearance model using RGB-D data is proposed which makes the appearance model robust to scale change, partial occlusion and view-truncation. The introduce of RGB-D data increases the diversity of features, which provides more types of features for feature selection in data association and enhances the final multi-tracking performance. We validate our method from several aspects including scene-adaptive feature selection scheme, hierarchical data association scheme and RGB-D based appearance modeling scheme in various indoor scenes, which demonstrates its effectiveness and efficiency on improving multi-tracking performances in various indoor scenes.
基金supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62176041)in part by Excellent Science and Technique Talent Foundation of Dalian(No.2022RY21).
文摘Significant advancements have beenwitnessed in visual tracking applications leveragingViT in recent years,mainly due to the formidablemodeling capabilities of Vision Transformer(ViT).However,the strong performance of such trackers heavily relies on ViT models pretrained for long periods,limitingmore flexible model designs for tracking tasks.To address this issue,we propose an efficient unsupervised ViT pretraining method for the tracking task based on masked autoencoders,called TrackMAE.During pretraining,we employ two shared-parameter ViTs,serving as the appearance encoder and motion encoder,respectively.The appearance encoder encodes randomly masked image data,while the motion encoder encodes randomly masked pairs of video frames.Subsequently,an appearance decoder and a motion decoder separately reconstruct the original image data and video frame data at the pixel level.In this way,ViT learns to understand both the appearance of images and the motion between video frames simultaneously.Experimental results demonstrate that ViT-Base and ViT-Large models,pretrained with TrackMAE and combined with a simple tracking head,achieve state-of-the-art(SOTA)performance without additional design.Moreover,compared to the currently popular MAE pretraining methods,TrackMAE consumes only 1/5 of the training time,which will facilitate the customization of diverse models for tracking.For instance,we additionally customize a lightweight ViT-XS,which achieves SOTA efficient tracking performance.
文摘The amount of needed control messages in wireless sensor networks(WSN)is affected by the storage strategy of detected events.Because broadcasting superfluous control messages consumes excess energy,the network lifespan can be extended if the quantity of control messages is decreased.In this study,an optimized storage technique having low control overhead for tracking the objects in WSN is introduced.The basic concept is to retain observed events in internal memory and preserve the relationship between sensed information and sensor nodes using a novel inexpensive data structure entitled Ordered Binary Linked List(OBLL).Whenever an object passes over the sensor area,the recognizing sensor can immediately produce an OBLL along the object’s route.To retrieve the entire information,the OBLL can be traversed with logarithmic complexity which is much less than the traversing complexity of existing linked list structures.Performance evaluation and simulations were carried out to ensure that the suggested technique minimizes the number of messages and thus saving energy and extending the network life.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61673269)。
文摘Visual object tracking is an important issue that has received long-term attention in computer vision.The ability to effectively handle occlusion,especially severe occlusion,is an important aspect of evaluating the performance of object tracking algorithms in long-term tracking,and is of great significance to improving the robustness of object tracking algorithms.However,most object tracking algorithms lack a processing mechanism specifically for occlusion.In the case of occlusion,due to the lack of target information,it is necessary to predict the target position based on the motion trajectory.Kalman filtering and particle filtering can effectively predict the target motion state based on the historical motion information.A single object tracking method,called probabilistic discriminative model prediction(PrDiMP),is based on the spatial attention mechanism in complex scenes and occlusions.In order to improve the performance of PrDiMP,Kalman filtering,particle filtering and linear filtering are introduced.First,for the occlusion situation,Kalman filtering and particle filtering are respectively introduced to predict the object position,thereby replacing the detection result of the original tracking algorithm and stopping recursion of target model.Second,for detection-jump problem of similar objects in complex scenes,a linear filtering window is added.The evaluation results on the three datasets,including GOT-10k,UAV123 and LaSOT,and the visualization results on several videos,show that our algorithms have improved tracking performance under occlusion and the detection-jump is effectively suppressed.
文摘Droplet microfluidics,which encapsulates individual cells within separate microreactors,has become an essential tool for single-cell phenotypic and genotypic analysis.However,the efficiency of single-cell encapsulation is limited by the Poisson distribution governing the encapsulation process,resulting in most droplets being either empty or containing multiple cells.Traditional single-cell sorting methods typically rely on fluorescence labeling for identification,but this approach not only increases experimental costs and complexity but can also impact cell viability.Additionally,current label-free sorting methods still encounter difficulties in accurately detecting multicellular droplets and small cellular aggregates.To address these challenges,this paper proposes an intelligent sorting system that combines YOLOv8 object detection and BoTSORT tracking algorithms.This system enables real-time analysis of droplet images,facilitating precise identification,counting,and automated sorting of target droplets.To validate the system’s performance,polystyrene microspheres were used to simulate real cells in sorting tests.The results demonstrated that,under label-free conditions,the system significantly outperformed traditional fluorescence labeling methods in both classification accuracy and sorting efficiency.This system provides an effective,label-free solution for cell sorting,with potential applications in precision medicine,single-cell sequencing,and drug screening.
文摘Visual object-tracking is a fundamental task applied in many applications of computer vision. Particle filter is one of the techniques which has been widely used in object tracking. Due to the virtue of extendability and flexibility on both linear and non-linear environments, various particle filter-based trackers have been proposed in the literature. However, the conventional approach cannot handle very large videos efficiently in the current data intensive information age. In this work, a parallelized particle filter is provided in a distributed framework provided by the Hadoop/Map-Reduce infrastructure to tackle object-tracking tasks. The experiments indicate that the proposed algorithm has a better convergence and accuracy as compared to the traditional particle filter. The computational power and the scalability of the proposed particle filter in single object tracking have been enhanced as well.
文摘An improved estimation of motion vectors of feature points is proposed for tracking moving objects of dynamic image sequence. Feature points are firstly extracted by the improved minimum intensity change （MIC） algorithm. The matching points of these feature points are then determined by adaptive rood pattern searching. Based on the random sample consensus （RANSAC） method, the background motion is finally compensated by the parameters of an affine transform of the background motion. With reasonable morphological filtering, the moving objects are completely extracted from the background, and then tracked accurately. Experimental results show that the improved method is successful on the motion background compensation and offers great promise in tracking moving objects of the dynamic image sequence.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61201412)
文摘In practical application,mean shift tracking algorithm is easy to generate tracking drift when the target and the background have similar color distribution.Based on the mean shift algorithm,a kind of background weaken weight is proposed in the paper firstly.Combining with the object center weight based on the kernel function,the problem of interference of the similar color background can be solved.And then,a model updating strategy is presented to improve the tracking robustness on the influence of occlusion,illumination,deformation and so on.With the test on the sequence of Tiger,the proposed approach provides better performance than the original mean shift tracking algorithm.
基金supported in part by the Institute for Guo Qiang of Tsinghua University(2019GQG1023)in part by Graduate Education and Teaching Reform Project of Tsinghua University(202007J007)+1 种基金in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China(U19B2029,62073028,61803222)in part by the Independent Research Program of Tsinghua University(2018Z05JDX002)。
文摘There are two main trends in the development of unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)technologies:miniaturization and intellectualization,in which realizing object tracking capabilities for a nano-scale UAV is one of the most challenging problems.In this paper,we present a visual object tracking and servoing control system utilizing a tailor-made 38 g nano-scale quadrotor.A lightweight visual module is integrated to enable object tracking capabilities,and a micro positioning deck is mounted to provide accurate pose estimation.In order to be robust against object appearance variations,a novel object tracking algorithm,denoted by RMCTer,is proposed,which integrates a powerful short-term tracking module and an efficient long-term processing module.In particular,the long-term processing module can provide additional object information and modify the short-term tracking model in a timely manner.Furthermore,a positionbased visual servoing control method is proposed for the quadrotor,where an adaptive tracking controller is designed by leveraging backstepping and adaptive techniques.Stable and accurate object tracking is achieved even under disturbances.Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the high accuracy and stability of the whole tracking system.
文摘Recently,deep learning has been widely utilized for object tracking tasks.However,deep learning encounters limits in tasks such as Autonomous Aerial Refueling(AAR),where the target object can vary substantially in size,requiring high-precision real-time performance in embedded systems.This paper presents a novel embedded adaptiveness single-object tracking framework based on an improved YOLOv4 detection approach and an n-fold Bernoulli probability theorem.First,an Asymmetric Convolutional Network(ACNet)and dense blocks are combined with the YOLOv4 architecture to detect small objects with high precision when similar objects are in the background.The prior object information,such as its location in the previous frame and its speed,is utilized to adaptively track objects of various sizes.Moreover,based on the n-fold Bernoulli probability theorem,we develop a filter that uses statistical laws to reduce the false positive rate of object tracking.To evaluate the efficiency of our algorithm,a new AAR dataset is collected,and extensive AAR detection and tracking experiments are performed.The results demonstrate that our improved detection algorithm is better than the original YOLOv4 algorithm on small and similar object detection tasks;the object tracking algorithm is better than state-of-the-art object tracking algorithms on refueling drogue tracking tasks.
基金the Framework of International Cooperation Program managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea(2019K1A3A1A8011295711).
文摘Collaborative Robotics is one of the high-interest research topics in the area of academia and industry.It has been progressively utilized in numerous applications,particularly in intelligent surveillance systems.It allows the deployment of smart cameras or optical sensors with computer vision techniques,which may serve in several object detection and tracking tasks.These tasks have been considered challenging and high-level perceptual problems,frequently dominated by relative information about the environment,where main concerns such as occlusion,illumination,background,object deformation,and object class variations are commonplace.In order to show the importance of top view surveillance,a collaborative robotics framework has been presented.It can assist in the detection and tracking of multiple objects in top view surveillance.The framework consists of a smart robotic camera embedded with the visual processing unit.The existing pre-trained deep learning models named SSD and YOLO has been adopted for object detection and localization.The detection models are further combined with different tracking algorithms,including GOTURN,MEDIANFLOW,TLD,KCF,MIL,and BOOSTING.These algorithms,along with detection models,help to track and predict the trajectories of detected objects.The pre-trained models are employed;therefore,the generalization performance is also investigated through testing the models on various sequences of top view data set.The detection models achieved maximum True Detection Rate 93%to 90%with a maximum 0.6%False Detection Rate.The tracking results of different algorithms are nearly identical,with tracking accuracy ranging from 90%to 94%.Furthermore,a discussion has been carried out on output results along with future guidelines.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51009040)Heilongjiang Postdoctoral Fund(Grant No.LBH-Z11205)+1 种基金the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program,Grant No.2011AA09A106)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2012M510928)
文摘This paper describes a new framework for object detection and tracking of AUV including underwater acoustic data interpolation, underwater acoustic images segmentation and underwater objects tracking. This framework is applied to the design of vision-based method for AUV based on the forward looking sonar sensor. First, the real-time data flow （underwater acoustic images） is pre-processed to form the whole underwater acoustic image, and the relevant position information of objects is extracted and determined. An improved method of double threshold segmentation is proposed to resolve the problem that the threshold cannot be adjusted adaptively in the traditional method. Second, a representation of region information is created in light of the Gaussian particle filter. The weighted integration strategy combining the area and invariant moment is proposed to perfect the weight of particles and to enhance the tracking robustness. Results obtained on the real acoustic vision platform of AUV during sea trials are displayed and discussed. They show that the proposed method can detect and track the moving objects underwater online, and it is effective and robust.
