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Auteurs principaux: Singh, Prithvi Raj, Gottumukkala, Raju, Maida, Anthony S., Barhorst, Alan B., Gopu, Vijaya
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Publié: 2025
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20126
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author Singh, Prithvi Raj
Gottumukkala, Raju
Maida, Anthony S.
Barhorst, Alan B.
Gopu, Vijaya
author_facet Singh, Prithvi Raj
Gottumukkala, Raju
Maida, Anthony S.
Barhorst, Alan B.
Gopu, Vijaya
contents While computer vision has advanced considerably for general object detection and tracking, the specific problem of fast-moving tiny objects remains underexplored. This paper addresses the significant challenge of detecting and tracking rapidly moving small objects using an RGB-D camera. Our novel system combines deep learning-based detection with physics-based tracking to overcome the limitations of existing approaches. Our contributions include: (1) a comprehensive system design for object detection and tracking of fast-moving small objects in 3D space, (2) an innovative physics-based tracking algorithm that integrates kinematics motion equations to handle outliers and missed detections, and (3) an outlier detection and correction module that significantly improves tracking performance in challenging scenarios such as occlusions and rapid direction changes. We evaluated our proposed system on a custom racquetball dataset. Our evaluation shows our system surpassing kalman filter based trackers with up to 70\% less Average Displacement Error. Our system has significant applications for improving robot perception on autonomous platforms and demonstrates the effectiveness of combining physics-based models with deep learning approaches for real-time 3D detection and tracking of challenging small objects.
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spellingShingle Physics-Guided Fusion for Robust 3D Tracking of Fast Moving Small Objects
Singh, Prithvi Raj
Gottumukkala, Raju
Maida, Anthony S.
Barhorst, Alan B.
Gopu, Vijaya
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
While computer vision has advanced considerably for general object detection and tracking, the specific problem of fast-moving tiny objects remains underexplored. This paper addresses the significant challenge of detecting and tracking rapidly moving small objects using an RGB-D camera. Our novel system combines deep learning-based detection with physics-based tracking to overcome the limitations of existing approaches. Our contributions include: (1) a comprehensive system design for object detection and tracking of fast-moving small objects in 3D space, (2) an innovative physics-based tracking algorithm that integrates kinematics motion equations to handle outliers and missed detections, and (3) an outlier detection and correction module that significantly improves tracking performance in challenging scenarios such as occlusions and rapid direction changes. We evaluated our proposed system on a custom racquetball dataset. Our evaluation shows our system surpassing kalman filter based trackers with up to 70\% less Average Displacement Error. Our system has significant applications for improving robot perception on autonomous platforms and demonstrates the effectiveness of combining physics-based models with deep learning approaches for real-time 3D detection and tracking of challenging small objects.
title Physics-Guided Fusion for Robust 3D Tracking of Fast Moving Small Objects
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20126