MVTD: A Benchmark Dataset for Maritime Visual Object Tracking

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02866v1
• Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:30:11 GMT
• Title: MVTD: A Benchmark Dataset for Maritime Visual Object Tracking
• Authors: Ahsan Baidar Bakht, Muhayy Ud Din, Sajid Javed, Irfan Hussain,
• Abstract summary: Maritime Visual Tracking dataset (MVTD) comprises 182 high-resolution video sequences, totaling approximately 150,000 frames.<n>MVTD captures a diverse range of operational conditions and maritime scenarios, reflecting the real-world complexities of maritime environments.<n>We evaluated 14 recent SOTA tracking algorithms on the MVTD benchmark and observed substantial performance degradation compared to their performance on general-purpose datasets.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Visual Object Tracking (VOT) is a fundamental task with widespread applications in autonomous navigation, surveillance, and maritime robotics. Despite significant advances in generic object tracking, maritime environments continue to present unique challenges, including specular water reflections, low-contrast targets, dynamically changing backgrounds, and frequent occlusions. These complexities significantly degrade the performance of state-of-the-art tracking algorithms, highlighting the need for domain-specific datasets. To address this gap, we introduce the Maritime Visual Tracking Dataset (MVTD), a comprehensive and publicly available benchmark specifically designed for maritime VOT. MVTD comprises 182 high-resolution video sequences, totaling approximately 150,000 frames, and includes four representative object classes: boat, ship, sailboat, and unmanned surface vehicle (USV). The dataset captures a diverse range of operational conditions and maritime scenarios, reflecting the real-world complexities of maritime environments. We evaluated 14 recent SOTA tracking algorithms on the MVTD benchmark and observed substantial performance degradation compared to their performance on general-purpose datasets. However, when fine-tuned on MVTD, these models demonstrate significant performance gains, underscoring the effectiveness of domain adaptation and the importance of transfer learning in specialized tracking contexts. The MVTD dataset fills a critical gap in the visual tracking community by providing a realistic and challenging benchmark for maritime scenarios. Dataset and Source Code can be accessed here "https://github.com/AhsanBaidar/MVTD".

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