Tracking the Unseen: An Occlusion-Robust Framework for Target Tracking Under Full and Long-Term Occlusion

📅 2026-09-15
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该研究针对目标在完全和长期遮挡下难以持续跟踪的问题,提出了一种结合YOLOv11n、卡尔曼滤波器及遮挡感知重识别技术的鲁棒框架,有效提高了目标身份保持与轨迹连续性。
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Real-time multi-object tracking systems remain highly vulnerable to full and long-term occlusion, where targets temporarily or completely disappear from the camera's field of view. Conventional trackers may terminate trajectories prematurely, resulting in identity loss and reduced situational awareness in applications such as defense and surveillance. This work proposes an occlusion-robust target tracking framework that maintains target identity and trajectory continuity through the integration of YOLOv11n object detection, Kalman Filter motion prediction, and occlusion-aware appearance-based re-identification. The framework consists of three stages: object detection, position estimation during occlusion, and identity recovery after target reappearance. Six Re-Identification (Re-ID) architectures were evaluated within the same tracking framework under identical conditions, with the Occlusion-Aware Mask Network (OAMN) achieving the best overall performance and therefore selected for the final pipeline. The framework was benchmarked against OccluTrack on the public OVIS dataset, achieving relative improvements of 18.1 percent in Multiple Object Tracking Accuracy (MOTA) and 25.1 percent in Identity F1 Score (IDF1), while reducing identity switches by 12.8 percent. On a custom military dataset simulating surveillance and battlefield-like environments with long-term occlusion, the framework achieved a MOTA of 0.734 and an IDF1 of 0.729, corresponding to relative improvements of 14.2 percent and 5.8 percent over OccluTrack. The system demonstrated strong tracking continuity, robust identity preservation, and reliable trajectory estimation under challenging occlusion conditions, highlighting its effectiveness for defense-related surveillance applications requiring continuous target tracking during visibility loss.
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Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.

Occlusion
Target Tracking
Identity Loss
Multi-Object Tracking
Situational Awareness
Innovation

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Occlusion-Robust
YOLOv11n
Kalman Filter
Occlusion-Aware Re-Identification
OAMN
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