SCA-MMA: Spatial and Channel-Aware Multi-Modal Adaptation for Robust RGB-T Object Tracking

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This article presents a deep learning-based RGB-T tracking framework.

Line 27 - 42: The motivation of the research is not clear.

Line 74: Can we compare the proposed framework with more recent work, and with more datasets? In addition, we had better briefly explain PR and SR here, even though they are explained in section 4.1.

Line 153: Why do we use different pixel values to evaluate PR performance?

Line 170, 171, 189, and 198. They are repetitive.

Figure 3 and Figure 4: They compare different sets of trackers. Can we compare the same set of trackers with different datasets?

We can improve this article by adding more details regarding the unique structure of the proposed framework compared to other MDNet-based approaches.

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Reviewer 2 Report

1. Object tracking is one of the leading scientific problems of recent years. Both in civilian and military applications. This paper presents aspects of tracking realized with the use of optoelectronic devices.
2. General remarks
   1. Too many abbreviations make it difficult to follow the content of the article. Each abbreviation should be expanded the first time it appears. Not all readers need to know all abbreviations. Especially in the abstract of the article and conclusions.
   2. Please use the language of a scientific research report without personal references: “we”, “our”, “ours” which are plenty in whole article.
   3. The subject of object tracking is commonly associated with radar and often sonar tracking, also using artificial neural networks. It is worth to compare algorithms used in radar or sonar tracking to the solution proposed in the paper. Publications worth analyzing include:
      • Mehmood, K; Jalil, A; Ali, A; Khan, B; Murad, M; Khan, WU; He, YG; Context-Aware and Occlusion Handling Mechanism for Online Visual Object Tracking. Elektronics, 2021, vol. 10, isuue 1, art.43, doi: 10.3390/electronics10010043
      • Stateczny A., Kazimierski W., Gronska-Sledz D., Motyl W., The Empirical Application of Automotive 3D Radar Sensor for Target Detection for an Autonomous Surface Vehicle's Navigation. Remote Sensing, 2019, vol. 11, issue 10, art. 1156, doi: DOI10.3390/rs11101156.

• • • Zhang, TD; Liu, SW; He, X; Huang, H; Hao, KD; Underwater Target Tracking Using Forward-Looking Sonar for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. Sensors, 2020, vol. 20, issue 1, art. 102, doi: 10.3390/s20010102.
    • Stateczny, A., Kazimierski, W.: Multisensor Tracking of Marine Targets – Decentralized Fusion of Kalman and Neural Filters. International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications, 2011, vol. 57, issue 1, pp: 65-70, doi: 10.2478/v10177-011-0009-8
    • Liu, WW; Liu, YC; Bucknall, R; Filtering based multi-sensor data fusion algorithm for a reliable unmanned surface vehicle navigation. Journal of Marine Engineering and Technology, 2022, doi: 10.1080/20464177.2022.2031558

4. However the article is well written should be carefully edited. Some remarks included below.

3. Specific remarks
   1. There is lack of “Discussion” chapter.
   2. The titles of the drawings are too long. Descriptions of figure content and other explanations should be in the body of the article rather than in the figure title. The title should be in one sentence. The same Tables.
   3. The final conclusions are too general and only generally summarize the research presented in the article. I suggest expanding the conclusions with more detailed findings.
   4. There should always be a space after ] – line 88, 90, 94, 105 and others.

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Reviewer 3 Report

Additional keywords are necessary

It seems that the background of this study is not enough to establish the motivation of the proposed scheme

Additional related works are needed to provide that the proposed scheme can provide answer on the existing drawbacks of the other studies

The scope of the conclusion section cannot support the full concept of this paper, it does not even covers half of the section for this section.

Addtional related and latest references are necessary

In generally, the descritption of the context for the figures and tables should be provided first before presenting the figures/tables.

Acronym/abbreviation should be presented after the discussing or presentation the whole description or defintion of a term

 Provide RGB-T description/acronym defintion see line 239 onwards.

Discuss what happen on the results of the ablation experiment

 

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Thanks for revising the manuscript. This version reads better.

A few comments about writing:

Line 29. "import", do you mean "important"?

Line 102. This line can be removed.

Line 237. "can be" -> "are".

Line 238. "with only with" -> "with only".

Line 273. The header of the "Reference" section is missing?

Figure 5 is too small.

Author Response

Thanks for your comments and suggestions on our manuscript. again.  We have revised our manuscript according to your careful comments, where the revised parts have been marked blue in the revised manuscript. 

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors have incorporated all of my comments. The article is ready for the final preparation procedure for publication.

Author Response

Thank you very much for your kind suggestion.

Reviewer 3 Report

SCA-MMA and channel-aware need to be reflected in the keywords sections

The content/context description of each figures should be discuss before presenting or putting the said image/figure. Example, the figure 1 is presented in line 86, but the description of this figure is written in line 126. It will be hard for the readers to deal with this scenario

The content/context description of each tables should be discuss before presenting the table. Example, Table 2 is presented in somewhere in line 229 but the description is writeen somewhere in line 244

Consistency of the font size between Table 1 and Table 2

Enhance the conclusion

 

 

Author Response

Thanks for your comments and suggestions on our manuscript again.
We have revised our manuscript according to your careful comments. Please the detailed responses in the attachment. 

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