MVTD

Tracking objects in maritime environments remains a challenging task due to dynamic water surfaces, occlusions, reflections, and camera-induced motion blur. To advance research in this domain, we introduce MVTD (Maritime Visual Tracking Dataset), a comprehensive benchmark comprising 182 sequences and over 150,000 frames, each annotated with precise bounding boxes. The dataset captures a wide variety of real-world maritime conditions and includes annotations for 9 critical attributes, such as occlusion, low resolution, background clutter, and motion blur, enabling fine-grained performance analysis. Additionally, MVTD includes four object types commonly encountered in maritime surveillance scenarios. To evaluate current capabilities, we benchmark 14 SOTA trackers on MVTD, revealing notable performance limitations and motivating the development of domain specific tracking solutions for maritime environments.