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Exploiting Multimodal Spatial-temporal Patterns for Video Object Tracking

20 Dec 2024arXiv:2412.15691archive 2025-07-28

Xiantao Hu, Ying Tai, Xu Zhao, Chen Zhao, Zhenyu Zhang, Jun Li, Bineng Zhong, Jian Yang

Multimodal tracking has garnered widespread attention as a result of its ability to effectively address the inherent limitations of traditional RGB tracking. However, existing multimodal trackers mainly focus on the fusion and enhancement of spatial features or merely leverage the sparse temporal relationships between video frames. These approaches do not fully exploit the temporal correlations in multimodal videos, making it difficult to capture the dynamic changes and motion information of targets in complex scenarios. To alleviate this problem, we propose a unified multimodal spatial-temporal tracking approach named STTrack. In contrast to previous paradigms that solely relied on updating reference information, we introduced a temporal state generator (TSG) that continuously generates a sequence of tokens containing multimodal temporal information. These temporal information tokens are used to guide the localization of the target in the next time state, establish long-range contextual relationships between video frames, and capture the temporal trajectory of the target. Furthermore, at the spatial level, we introduced the mamba fusion and background suppression interactive (BSI) modules. These modules establish a dual-stage mechanism for coordinating information interaction and fusion between modalities. Extensive comparisons on five benchmark datasets illustrate that STTrack achieves state-of-the-art performance across various multimodal tracking scenarios. Code is available at: https://github.com/NJU-PCALab/STTrack.

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MambaObject TrackingRgb-T TrackingVideo Object Tracking

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Rgb-T Tracking LasHeR STTrack Precision 76.0 #5 of 39 Archive leaderboard report
Rgb-T Tracking LasHeR STTrack Success 60.3 #5 of 39 Archive leaderboard report
Rgb-T Tracking RGBT234 STTrack Precision 89.8 #12 of 42 Archive leaderboard report
Rgb-T Tracking RGBT234 STTrack Success 66.7 #12 of 42 Archive leaderboard report

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