arXiv:2603.03604cs.CVq-bio.QM2026-03

用旋转框精准追踪空中俯拍的野马群体,解决方向翻转难题。

Tracking Feral Horses in Aerial Video Using Oriented Bounding Boxes

  • 引入带角度的旋转框,结合头部朝向判断减少背景干扰。
  • 在299张测试图上达到99.3%识别准确率,显著优于单一模型。
  • 适合需要连续追踪动物行为的生态研究与无人机视频分析。

群居动物如野马的社会结构多样且理解不足,尤其在同一物种内。为研究群体动态,常使用航拍视频追踪个体并分析运动轨迹,这对评估个体间互动和比较社会行为至关重要。准确追踪是关键。现有方法多采用轴对齐边界框(AABB),但在复杂背景、目标小、密度高且姿态多变的航拍全景中表现下降。为此,本文采用包含旋转角的定向边界框(OBB),减少冗余背景。然而,当前OBB检测器如YOLO-OBB将角度限制在180°内,无法区分头尾,常导致帧间180°突变,严重破坏连续追踪。为此,我们提出一种头部朝向估计方法:以OBB为中心裁剪区域,分别用头、尾、头尾三类检测器预测,并通过交并比(IoU)多数投票确定最终标签。在299张测试图像上的实验表明,该方法达99.3%准确率,优于各独立模型,证明其在鲁棒性OBB追踪中的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The social structures of group-living animals such as feral horses are diverse and remain insufficiently understood, even within a single species. To investigate group dynamics, aerial videos are often utilized to track individuals and analyze their movement trajectories, which are essential for evaluating inter-individual interactions and comparing social behaviors. Accurate individual tracking is therefore crucial. In multi-animal tracking, axis-aligned bounding boxes (bboxes) are widely used; however, for aerial top-view footage of entire groups, their performance degrades due to complex backgrounds, small target sizes, high animal density, and varying body orientations. To address this issue, we employ oriented bounding boxes (OBBs), which include rotation angles and reduce unnecessary background. Nevertheless, current OBB detectors such as YOLO-OBB restrict angles within a 180$^{\circ}$ range, making it impossible to distinguish head from tail and often causing sudden 180$^{\circ}$ flips across frames, which severely disrupts continuous tracking. To overcome this limitation, we propose a head-orientation estimation method that crops OBB-centered patches, applies three detectors (head, tail, and head-tail), and determines the final label through IoU-based majority voting. Experiments using 299 test images show that our method achieves 99.3% accuracy, outperforming individual models, demonstrating its effectiveness for robust OBB-based tracking.

目标追踪旋转框动物行为航拍视频

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