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In low-altitude surveillance and early warning systems, detecting weak moving targets remains a significant challenge due to low signal energy, small spatial extent, and complex background clutter. Existing methods struggle with extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Weihua Gao , Chunxu Ren , Wenlong Niu , Xiaodong Peng

To identify dense and small-size pedestrians in surveillance systems, high-resolution cameras are widely deployed, where high-resolution images are captured and delivered to off-the-shelf pedestrian detection models. However, given the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Hao Wang , Hao Bao , Liekang Zeng , Ke Luo , Xu Chen

Multispectral pedestrian detection is attractive for around-the-clock applications due to the complementary information between RGB and thermal modalities. However, current models often fail to detect pedestrians in certain cases (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Taeheon Kim , Sangyun Chung , Damin Yeom , Youngjoon Yu , Hak Gu Kim , Yong Man Ro

Pedestrian recognition has successfully been applied to security, autonomous cars, Aerial photographs. For most applications, pedestrian recognition on small mobile devices is important. However, the limitations of the computing hardware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Guifan Weng

Significant performance improvement has been achieved for fully-supervised video salient object detection with the pixel-wise labeled training datasets, which are time-consuming and expensive to obtain. To relieve the burden of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Wangbo Zhao , Jing Zhang , Long Li , Nick Barnes , Nian Liu , Junwei Han

There are many limitations applying object detection algorithm on various environments. Especially detecting small objects is still challenging because they have low resolution and limited information. We propose an object detection method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Jeong-Seon Lim , Marcella Astrid , Hyun-Jin Yoon , Seung-Ik Lee

In this paper we propose a novel approach for detecting and tracking objects in videos with variable background i.e. videos captured by moving cameras without any additional sensor. In a video captured by a moving camera, both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Kumar S. Ray , Vijayan K. Asari , Soma Chakraborty

Pedestrian Detection is the most critical module of an Autonomous Driving system. Although a camera is commonly used for this purpose, its quality degrades severely in low-light night time driving scenarios. On the other hand, the quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Kinjal Dasgupta , Arindam Das , Sudip Das , Ujjwal Bhattacharya , Senthil Yogamani

Head detection and tracking are essential for downstream tasks, but current methods often require large computational budgets, which increase latencies and ties up resources (e.g., processors, memory, and bandwidth). To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jisu Kim , Alex Mattingly , Eung-Joo Lee , Benjamin S. Riggan

This paper starts from the observation that multiple top performing pedestrian detectors can be modelled by using an intermediate layer filtering low-level features in combination with a boosted decision forest. Based on this observation we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Shanshan Zhang , Rodrigo Benenson , Bernt Schiele

Detecting and segmenting individual objects, regardless of their category, is crucial for many applications such as action detection or robotic interaction. While this problem has been well-studied under the classic formulation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Achal Dave , Pavel Tokmakov , Deva Ramanan

Small object detection under complex backgrounds remains a challenging task due to severe feature degradation, weak semantic representation, and inaccurate localization caused by downsampling operations and background interference. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Wenguang Tao , Xiaotian Wang , Tian Yan , Yi Wang , Jie Yan

Motivated by the center-surround mechanism in the human visual attention system, we propose to use average contrast maps for the challenge of pedestrian detection in street scenes due to the observation that pedestrians indeed exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shanshan Zhang , Christian Bauckhage , Dominik A. Klein , Armin B. Cremers

Collaborative object localization aims to collaboratively estimate locations of objects observed from multiple views or perspectives, which is a critical ability for multi-agent systems such as connected vehicles. To enable collaborative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Peng Gao , Rui Guo , Hongsheng Lu , Hao Zhang

Overhead depth map measurements capture sufficient amount of information to enable human experts to track pedestrians accurately. However, fully automating this process using image analysis algorithms can be challenging. Even though…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Alessandro Corbetta , Vlado Menkovski , Federico Toschi

Pedestrian detection is a problem of considerable practical interest. Adding to the list of successful applications of deep learning methods to vision, we report state-of-the-art and competitive results on all major pedestrian datasets with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Pierre Sermanet , Koray Kavukcuoglu , Soumith Chintala , Yann LeCun

The tracking algorithm performance depends on video content. This paper presents a new multi-object tracking approach which is able to cope with video content variations. First the object detection is improved using Kanade- Lucas-Tomasi…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Duc Phu Chau , François Bremond , Monique Thonnat , Slawomir Bak

Pedestrian detection is an important component for safety of autonomous vehicles, as well as for traffic and street surveillance. There are extensive benchmarks on this topic and it has been shown to be a challenging problem when applied on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Damien Matti , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Compared to LiDAR-based localization methods, which provide high accuracy but rely on expensive sensors, visual localization approaches only require a camera and thus are more cost-effective while their accuracy and reliability typically is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Gabriel L. Oliveira , Noha Radwan , Wolfram Burgard , Thomas Brox

Recognising semantic pedestrian attributes in surveillance images is a challenging task for computer vision, particularly when the imaging quality is poor with complex background clutter and uncontrolled viewing conditions, and the number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Jingya Wang , Xiatian Zhu , Shaogang Gong , Wei Li