Qiao Liu

Qiao Liu
Chongqing Normal University | CNU · National Center for Applied Mathematics

Doctor of Engineering

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Most of the existing infrared and visible image fusion algorithms rely on hand-designed or simple convolution-based fusion strategies. However, these methods cannot explicitly model the contextual relationships between infrared and visible images, thereby limiting their robustness. To this end, we propose a novel Transformer-based feature fusion ne...
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RGBT tracking seeks to leverage both visible and thermal infrared images to enhance the robustness of target tracking. This method makes up for the limitations of single-sensor tracking. The RGB and thermal infrared images complement each other effectively, enabling the tracker to operate seamlessly in complex environments day and night. However, R...
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Thermal infrared (TIR) target tracking is an important topic in the computer vision area. The TIR images are not affected by ambient light and have strong environmental adaptability, making them widely used in battlefield perception, video surveillance, assisted driving, etc. However, TIR target tracking faces problems such as relatively insufficie...
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The discriminative model prediction (DiMP) object tracking model is an excellent end-to-end tracking framework and have achieved the best results of its time. However, there are two problems with DiMP in the process of actual use: (1) DiMP is prone to interference from similar objects during the tracking process, and (2) DiMP requires a large amoun...
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Existing methods for video-based person re-identification (ReID) mainly learn the appearance feature of a given pedestrian via a feature extractor and a feature aggregator. However, the appearance models would fail to learn a large inter-class variance when different pedestrians have similar appearances. Considering that different pedestrians have...
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Thermal infrared (TIR) target tracking task is not affected by illumination changes and can be tracked at night, on rainy days, foggy days, and other extreme weather, so it is widely used in auxiliary driving, unmanned aerial vehicle reconnaissance, video surveillance, and other scenes. However, the TIR target tracking task also presents some chall...
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With the continuous advancement of autonomous driving technology, 3D vehicle detection has become of widespread interest. The traditional aggregate view object detection (AVOD) framework has achieved some good results in 3D vehicle detection tasks. However, the complexity of the 3D vehicle detection scenario makes the current detection methods stil...
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Unlike visual object tracking, thermal infrared (TIR) object tracking methods can track the target of interest in poor visibility such as rain, snow, and fog, or even in total darkness. This feature brings a wide range of application prospects for TIR object-tracking methods. However, this field lacks a unified and large-scale training and evaluati...
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Thermal infrared (TIR) target tracking task is not affected by illumination changes and can be tracked at night, on rainy days, foggy days, and other extreme weather, so it is widely used in night auxiliary driving, unmanned aerial vehicle reconnaissance, video surveillance, and other scenes. Thermal infrared target tracking task still faces many c...
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Thermal infrared (TIR) target tracking is susceptible to occlusion and similarity interference, which obviously affects the tracking results. To resolve this problem, we develop an Aligned Spatial-Temporal Memory network-based Tracking method (ASTMT) for the TIR target tracking task. Specifically, we model the scene information in the TIR target tr...
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When dealing with complex thermal infrared (TIR) tracking scenarios, the single category feature is not sufficient to portray the appearance of the target, which drastically affects the accuracy of the TIR target tracking method. In order to address these problems, we propose an adaptively multi-feature fusion model (AMFT) for the TIR tracking task...
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Existing methods for video-based person re-identification (ReID) mainly learn the appearance feature of a given pedestrian via a feature extractor and a feature aggregator. However, the appearance models would fail when different pedestrians have similar appearances. Considering that different pedestrians have different walking postures and body pr...
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Triple loss is widely used to detect learned descriptors and achieves promising performance. However, triple loss fails to fully consider the influence of adjacent descriptors from the same type of sample, which is one of the main reasons for image mismatching. To solve this problem, we propose a descriptor network based on triple loss with a simil...
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Thermal InfraRed (TIR) target trackers are easy to be interfered by similar objects, while susceptible to the influence of the target occlusion. To solve these problems, we propose a structural target-aware model (STAMT) for the thermal infrared target tracking tasks. Specifically, the proposed STAMT tracker can learn a target-aware model, which ca...
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Most existing trackers are based on using a classifier and multi-scale estimation to estimate the target state. Consequently, and as expected, trackers have become more stable while tracking accuracy has stagnated. While trackers adopt a maximum overlap method based on an intersection-over-union (IoU) loss to mitigate this problem, there are defect...
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The feature models used by existing Thermal InfraRed (TIR) tracking methods are usually learned from RGB images due to the lack of a large-scale TIR image training dataset. However, these feature models are less effective in representing TIR objects and they are difficult to effectively distinguish distractors because they do not contain fine-grain...
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Along with the rapid progress of visual tracking, existing benchmarks become less informative due to redundancy of samples and weak discrimination between current trackers, making evaluations on all datasets extremely time-consuming. Thus, a small and informative benchmark, which covers all typical challenging scenarios to facilitate assessing the...
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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully applied to the single target tracking task in recent years. Generally, training a deep CNN model requires numerous labeled training samples, and the number and quality of these samples directly affect the representational capability of the trained model. However, this approach is restricti...
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In visual tracking, it is challenging to distinguish the target from similar objects called noises in the background. As deep trackers use convolutional neural networks for image classification as feature extractors, the extracted features are insensitive to different instances in the same class, which is prone to make prediction models confuse the...
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Existing trackers usually exploit robust features or online updating mechanisms to deal with target variations which is a key challenge in visual tracking. However, the features being robust to variations remain little spatial information, and existing online updating methods are prone to overfitting. In this paper, we propose a dual-margin model f...
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Recent years have witnessed significant improvements of ensemble trackers based on independent models. However, existing ensemble trackers only combine the responses of independent models and pay less attention to the learning process, which hinders their performance from further improvements. To this end, we propose an interactive learning framewo...
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The training of a feature extraction network typically requires abundant manually annotated training samples, making this a time-consuming and costly process. Accordingly, we propose an effective self-supervised learning-based tracker in a deep correlation framework (named: self-SDCT). Motivated by the forward-backward tracking consistency of a rob...
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Existing regression based tracking methods built on correlation filter model or convolution modeldo not take both accuracy and robustness into account at the same time. In this paper, we pro-pose a dual regression framework comprising a discriminative fully convolutional module and a fine-grained correlation filter component for visual tracking. Th...
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In this paper, we present a Large-Scale and high-diversity general Thermal InfraRed (TIR) Object Tracking Benchmark, called LSOTBTIR, which consists of an evaluation dataset and a training dataset with a total of 1,400 TIR sequences and more than 600K frames. We annotate the bounding box of objects in every frame of all sequences and generate over...
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In this paper, we present a Large-Scale and high-diversity general Thermal InfraRed (TIR) Object Tracking Benchmark, called LSOTB-TIR, which consists of an evaluation dataset and a training dataset with a total of 1,400 TIR sequences and more than 600K frames. We annotate the bounding box of objects in every frame of all sequences and generate over...
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While part-based methods have been shown effective in the person re-identification task, it is unreasonable for most of them to treat each part equally, due to the retrieved image may be affected by deformation, occlusion and other factors, which makes the feature information of some parts unreliable. Instead of using the same weight of each part f...
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Existing deep Thermal InfraRed (TIR) trackers only use semantic features to represent the TIR object, which lack the sufficient discriminative capacity for handling distractors. This becomes worse when the feature extraction network is only trained on RGB images. To address this issue, we propose a multi-level similarity model under a Siamese frame...
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Existing deep Thermal InfraRed (TIR) trackers usually use the feature models of RGB trackers for representation. However, these feature models learned on RGB images are neither effective in representing TIR objects nor taking fine-grained TIR information into consideration. To this end, we develop a multi-task framework to learn the TIR-specific di...
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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been demonstrated to achieve state-of-the-art performance in visual object tracking task. However, existing CNN-based trackers usually use holistic target samples to train their networks. Once the target undergoes complicated situations (e.g., occlusion, background clutter, and deformation), the tracking per...
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Multi-Task Driven Feature Models for Thermal Infrared Tracking--Supplementary Materials
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Existing deep Thermal InfraRed (TIR) trackers usually use the feature models of RGB trackers for representation. However , these feature models learned on RGB images are neither effective in representing TIR objects nor taking fine-grained TIR information into consideration. To this end, we develop a multi-task framework to learn the TIR-specific d...
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Existing deep Thermal InfraRed (TIR) trackers usually use the feature models of RGB trackers for representation. However, these feature models learned on RGB images are neither effective in representing TIR objects nor taking fine-grained TIR information into consideration. To this end, we develop a multi-task framework to learn the TIR-specific di...
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Thermal infrared (TIR) pedestrian tracking is one of the important components among the numerous applications of computer vision, which has a major advantage: it can track pedestrians in total darkness. The ability to evaluate the TIR pedestrian tracker fairly, on a benchmark dataset, is significant for the development of this field. However, there...
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Existing deep Thermal InfraRed (TIR) trackers only use semantic features to describe the TIR object, which lack the sufficient discriminative capacity for handling distractors. This becomes worse when the feature extraction network is only trained on RGB images.To address this issue, we propose a multi-level similarity model under a Siamese framewo...
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The performance of the tracking task directly depends on target object appearance features. Therefore, a robust method for constructing appearance features is crucial for avoiding tracking failure. The tracking methods based on Convolution Neural Network (CNN) have exhibited excellent performance in the past years. However, the features from each o...
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Discriminative methods have been widely applied to construct the appearance model for visual tracking. Most existing methods incorporate online updating strategy to adapt to the appearance variations of targets. The focus of online updating for discriminative methods is to select the positive samples emerged in past frames to represent the appearan...
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In the most tracking approaches, a score function is utilized to determine which candidate is the optimal one by measuring the similarity between the candidate and the template. However, the representative samples selection in the template update is challenging. To address this problem, in this paper, we treat the template as a linear combination o...
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In this paper, we propose a novel thermal infrared (TIR) tracker via a deep Siamese convolutional neural network (CNN), named Siamese tir. Different from the most existing discriminative TIR tracking methods which treat the tracking problem as a classification problem, we treat the TIR tracking problem as a similarity verification problem. Specific...
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Most thermal infrared (TIR) tracking methods are discriminative, which treat the tracking problem as a classification task. However, the objective of the classifier (label prediction) is not coupled to the objective of the tracker (location estimation). The classification task focuses on the between-class difference of the arbitrary objects, while...
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In the past years, discriminative methods are popular in visual tracking. The main idea of the discriminative method is to learn a classifier to distinguish the target from the background. The key step is the update of the classifier. Usually, the tracked results are chosen as the positive samples to update the classifier, which results in the fail...
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Unlike the visual object tracking, thermal infrared object tracking can track a target object in total darkness. Therefore, it has broad applications, such as in rescue and video surveillance at night. However, there are few studies in this field mainly because thermal infrared images have several unwanted attributes, which make it difficult to obt...
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Robustness and efficiency are the two main goals of existing trackers. Most robust trackers are implemented with combined features or models accompanied with a high computational cost. To achieve a robust and efficient tracking performance, we propose a multi-view correlation tracker to do tracking. On one hand, the robustness of the tracker is enh...
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Visual tracking remains a challenging problem in computer vision due to the intricate variation of target appearances. Some progress made in recent years has revealed that correlation filters, which formulate the tracking process by creating a regressor in the frequency domain, have achieved remarkable experimental results on a large amount of vide...

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