Vision-Motion-Reference Alignment for Referring Multi-Object Tracking via Multi-Modal Large Language Models

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Main Authors: Lv, Weiyi, Zhang, Ning, Sun, Hanyang, Jiang, Haoran, Zhao, Kai, Xiao, Jing, Zeng, Dan
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author Lv, Weiyi
Zhang, Ning
Sun, Hanyang
Jiang, Haoran
Zhao, Kai
Xiao, Jing
Zeng, Dan
author_facet Lv, Weiyi
Zhang, Ning
Sun, Hanyang
Jiang, Haoran
Zhao, Kai
Xiao, Jing
Zeng, Dan
contents Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) extends conventional multi-object tracking (MOT) by introducing natural language references for multi-modal fusion tracking. RMOT benchmarks only describe the object's appearance, relative positions, and initial motion states. This so-called static regulation fails to capture dynamic changes of the object motion, including velocity changes and motion direction shifts. This limitation not only causes a temporal discrepancy between static references and dynamic vision modality but also constrains multi-modal tracking performance. To address this limitation, we propose a novel Vision-Motion-Reference aligned RMOT framework, named VMRMOT. It integrates a motion modality extracted from object dynamics to enhance the alignment between vision modality and language references through multi-modal large language models (MLLMs). Specifically, we introduce motion-aware descriptions derived from object dynamic behaviors and, leveraging the powerful temporal-reasoning capabilities of MLLMs, extract motion features as the motion modality. We further design a Vision-Motion-Reference Alignment (VMRA) module to hierarchically align visual queries with motion and reference cues, enhancing their cross-modal consistency. In addition, a Motion-Guided Prediction Head (MGPH) is developed to explore motion modality to enhance the performance of the prediction head. To the best of our knowledge, VMRMOT is the first approach to employ MLLMs in the RMOT task for vision-reference alignment. Extensive experiments on multiple RMOT benchmarks demonstrate that VMRMOT outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods.
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spellingShingle Vision-Motion-Reference Alignment for Referring Multi-Object Tracking via Multi-Modal Large Language Models
Lv, Weiyi
Zhang, Ning
Sun, Hanyang
Jiang, Haoran
Zhao, Kai
Xiao, Jing
Zeng, Dan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) extends conventional multi-object tracking (MOT) by introducing natural language references for multi-modal fusion tracking. RMOT benchmarks only describe the object's appearance, relative positions, and initial motion states. This so-called static regulation fails to capture dynamic changes of the object motion, including velocity changes and motion direction shifts. This limitation not only causes a temporal discrepancy between static references and dynamic vision modality but also constrains multi-modal tracking performance. To address this limitation, we propose a novel Vision-Motion-Reference aligned RMOT framework, named VMRMOT. It integrates a motion modality extracted from object dynamics to enhance the alignment between vision modality and language references through multi-modal large language models (MLLMs). Specifically, we introduce motion-aware descriptions derived from object dynamic behaviors and, leveraging the powerful temporal-reasoning capabilities of MLLMs, extract motion features as the motion modality. We further design a Vision-Motion-Reference Alignment (VMRA) module to hierarchically align visual queries with motion and reference cues, enhancing their cross-modal consistency. In addition, a Motion-Guided Prediction Head (MGPH) is developed to explore motion modality to enhance the performance of the prediction head. To the best of our knowledge, VMRMOT is the first approach to employ MLLMs in the RMOT task for vision-reference alignment. Extensive experiments on multiple RMOT benchmarks demonstrate that VMRMOT outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods.
title Vision-Motion-Reference Alignment for Referring Multi-Object Tracking via Multi-Modal Large Language Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17681