A Deep Dive into Generic Object Tracking: A Survey

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Main Authors: Meibodi, Fereshteh Aghaee, Alijani, Shadi, Najjaran, Homayoun
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Published: 2025
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author Meibodi, Fereshteh Aghaee
Alijani, Shadi
Najjaran, Homayoun
author_facet Meibodi, Fereshteh Aghaee
Alijani, Shadi
Najjaran, Homayoun
contents Generic object tracking remains an important yet challenging task in computer vision due to complex spatio-temporal dynamics, especially in the presence of occlusions, similar distractors, and appearance variations. Over the past two decades, a wide range of tracking paradigms, including Siamese-based trackers, discriminative trackers, and, more recently, prominent transformer-based approaches, have been introduced to address these challenges. While a few existing survey papers in this field have either concentrated on a single category or widely covered multiple ones to capture progress, our paper presents a comprehensive review of all three categories, with particular emphasis on the rapidly evolving transformer-based methods. We analyze the core design principles, innovations, and limitations of each approach through both qualitative and quantitative comparisons. Our study introduces a novel categorization and offers a unified visual and tabular comparison of representative methods. Additionally, we organize existing trackers from multiple perspectives and summarize the major evaluation benchmarks, highlighting the fast-paced advancements in transformer-based tracking driven by their robust spatio-temporal modeling capabilities.
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spellingShingle A Deep Dive into Generic Object Tracking: A Survey
Meibodi, Fereshteh Aghaee
Alijani, Shadi
Najjaran, Homayoun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Generic object tracking remains an important yet challenging task in computer vision due to complex spatio-temporal dynamics, especially in the presence of occlusions, similar distractors, and appearance variations. Over the past two decades, a wide range of tracking paradigms, including Siamese-based trackers, discriminative trackers, and, more recently, prominent transformer-based approaches, have been introduced to address these challenges. While a few existing survey papers in this field have either concentrated on a single category or widely covered multiple ones to capture progress, our paper presents a comprehensive review of all three categories, with particular emphasis on the rapidly evolving transformer-based methods. We analyze the core design principles, innovations, and limitations of each approach through both qualitative and quantitative comparisons. Our study introduces a novel categorization and offers a unified visual and tabular comparison of representative methods. Additionally, we organize existing trackers from multiple perspectives and summarize the major evaluation benchmarks, highlighting the fast-paced advancements in transformer-based tracking driven by their robust spatio-temporal modeling capabilities.
title A Deep Dive into Generic Object Tracking: A Survey
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23251