Driven by the rapid advancement of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology, the field of UAV object tracking has witnessed significant progress. This study introduces an innovative single-stream UAV tracking architecture, dubbed NT-Track, which is dedicated to enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of real-time tracking tasks. Addressing the shortcomings of existing tracking systems in capturing temporal relationships between consecutive frames, NT-Track meticulously analyzes the positional changes in targets across frames and leverages the similarity of the surrounding areas to extract feature information. Furthermore, our method integrates spatial and temporal information seamlessly into a unified framework through the introduction of a temporal feature fusion technique, thereby bolstering the overall performance of the model. NT-Track also incorporates a spatial neighborhood feature extraction module, which focuses on identifying and extracting features within the neighborhood of the target in each frame, ensuring continuous focus on the target during inter-frame processing. By employing an improved Transformer backbone network, our approach effectively integrates spatio-temporal information, enhancing the accuracy and robustness of tracking. Our experimental results on several challenging benchmark datasets demonstrate that NT-Track surpasses existing lightweight and deep learning trackers in terms of precision and success rate. It is noteworthy that, on the VisDrone2018 benchmark, NT-Track achieved a precision rate of 90% for the first time, an accomplishment that not only showcases its exceptional performance in complex environments, but also confirms its potential and effectiveness in practical applications.


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    Title :

    Spatio-Temporal Feature Aware Vision Transformers for Real-Time Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Tracking


    Contributors:
    Hao Zhang (author) / Hengzhou Ye (author) / Xiaoyu Guo (author) / Xu Zhang (author) / Yao Rong (author) / Shuiwang Li (author)


    Publication date :

    2025




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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