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Object drift determination is a crucial issue in long-term tracking. Most existing object drift determination criteria require manually selecting different thresholds on different datasets to determine whether the object is lost. In this case, choosing the appropriate threshold is a complex problem. An object drift determination network based on dual-template joint decision-making is proposed to address this issue. The proposed object drift determination network not only does not require selection of thresholds on different datasets, and can be used as a plug-and-play module of short-term visual tracking algorithm to achieve long-term visual tracking tasks with good generalization ability. The proposed object drift determination network is applied to four short-term baseline trackers and constructs four long-term visual tracking algorithms. Experimental results verify that all four improved algorithms significantly improve long-term visual tracking performance compared to the original algorithms. In addition, the determined speed of the object drift determination network proposed in this paper reaches 111 FPS, which has little effect on the long-term visual tracking speed. • New drift determination network without threshold selection is proposed. • New template update criterion is proposed to ensure the quality of templates. • Capable of acting as a plug-and-play module for most basic trackers. • The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified on five public datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most deep learning-based image enhancement algorithms have been developed based on the image-to-image translation approach, in which enhancement processes are difficult to interpret. In this paper, we propose a novel interpretable image enhancement algorithm that estimates multiple transformation functions to describe complex color mapping. First, we develop a histogram-based multiple transformation function estimation network (HMTF-Net) to estimate multiple transformation functions by exploiting both the spatial and statistical information of the input images. Second, we estimate pixel-wise weight maps, which indicate the contribution of each transformation function at each pixel, based on the local structures of the input image and the transformed images obtained by each transformation function. Finally, we obtain the enhanced image as the weighted sum of the transformed images using the estimated weight maps. Extensive experiments confirm the effectiveness of the proposed approach and demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art image enhancement algorithms for different image enhancement tasks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Rethinking the PASCAL-VOC and MS-COCO dataset for small object detection. • There are different labeling errors in these two benchmarks by visual analysis. • Building several specific datasets to analyze small object detection. • Data quality is another factor that affects the performance of small object detection. The data and the algorithm are critical to deep learning-based small object detectors. In this paper, we rethink the PASCAL-VOC and MS-COCO dataset for small object detection. By visual analysis of the original annotations, we find that there are different labeling errors in these two datasets. To solve these problems, we build specific datasets, including SDOD, Mini6K, Mini2022 and Mini6KClean. The experimental results of several typical algorithms (e.g. SSD, YOLOv5, Faster RCNN and Deformable DETR) on the datasets show that data labeling errors (such as missing labels, category label errors, inappropriate labels) are another factor that affects the detection performance of small objects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Person re-identification(ReID) is an intelligent video surveillance technology that retrieves the same person from different cameras. This task is extremely challenging due to changes in person poses, different camera views, and occlusion. In recent years, person ReID based on deep learning technology has received widespread attention due to the rapid development and excellent performance of deep learning. In this paper, we first divide person ReID based on deep learning approaches into seven types, i.e., fused hand-crafted features deep model, representation learning model, metric learning model, part-based deep model, video-based model, GAN-based model, unsupervised model. Furthermore, we launched a brief overview of the seven types. Then, we introduce some examples of commonly used datasets, compare the performance of some algorithms on image and video datasets in recent years, and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of various methods. Finally, we summarize the possible future research directions of person ReID technology. • Dividing person ReID based on deep learning approaches into seven types. • Introducing some examples of commonly used datasets. • Comparing the performance of some algorithms on image and video datasets in recent years. • Analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of various methods. • Summarizing the possible future research directions of person ReID technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]