DCPT: Darkness Clue-Prompted Tracking in Nighttime UAVs

Jiawen Zhu,Huayi Tang,Zhi-Qi Cheng,Jun-Yan He,Bin Luo,Shihao Qiu,Shengming Li,Huchuan Lu,Jiawen Zhu,Huayi Tang,Zhi-Qi Cheng,Jun-Yan He,Bin Luo,Shihao Qiu,Shengming Li,Huchuan Lu

Existing nighttime unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) trackers follow an "Enhance-then-Track" architecture - first using a light enhancer to brighten the nighttime video, then employing a daytime tracker to locate the object. This separate enhancement and tracking fails to build an end-to-end trainable vision system. To address this, we propose a novel architecture called Darkness Clue-Prompted Trackin...