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A satellite image is a remotely sensed image data, where each pixel represents a specific location on earth. The pixel value recorded is the reflection radiation from the earth's surface at that location. Multispectral images are those that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Purbarag Pathak Choudhury , Ujjal Kr Dutta , Dhruba Kr Bhattacharyya

Accurately and timely detecting multiscale small objects that contain tens of pixels from remote sensing images (RSI) remains challenging. Most of the existing solutions primarily design complex deep neural networks to learn strong feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jiaqing Zhang , Jie Lei , Weiying Xie , Zhenman Fang , Yunsong Li , Qian Du

SSD (Single Shot Multibox Detector) is one of the most successful object detectors for its high accuracy and fast speed. However, the features from shallow layer (mainly Conv4_3) of SSD lack semantic information, resulting in poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Hao Zhang , Xianggong Hong , Li Zhu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), specifically drones equipped with remote sensing object detection technology, have rapidly gained a broad spectrum of applications and emerged as one of the primary research focuses in the field of computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Li Zhu , Jiahui Xiong , Feng Xiong , Hanzheng Hu , Zhengnan Jiang

Detection and tracking of dynamic objects is a key feature for autonomous behavior in a continuously changing environment. With the increasing popularity and capability of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) efficient algorithms have to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Jan Razlaw , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

One-stage object detectors such as SSD or YOLO already have shown promising accuracy with small memory footprint and fast speed. However, it is widely recognized that one-stage detectors have difficulty in detecting small objects while they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Sanghyun Woo , Soonmin Hwang , In So Kweon

Satellite imagery is important for many applications including disaster response, law enforcement, and environmental monitoring. These applications require the manual identification of objects and facilities in the imagery. Because the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Mark Pritt , Gary Chern

Small object detection via UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) images captured from drones and radar is a complex task with several formidable challenges. This domain encompasses numerous complexities that impede the accurate detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Vipin Gautam , Shitala Prasad , Sharad Sinha

Object localization in satellite imagery is particularly challenging due to the high variability of objects, low spatial resolution, and interference from noise and dominant features such as clouds and city lights. In this research, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Seraj Al Mahmud Mostafa , Chenxi Wang , Jia Yue , Yuta Hozumi , Jianwu Wang

Detecting objects from aerial images poses significant challenges due to the following factors: 1) Aerial images typically have very large sizes, generally with millions or even hundreds of millions of pixels, while computational resources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Chenguang Liu , Guangshuai Gao , Ziyue Huang , Zhenghui Hu , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

For the past two decades, there have been significant efforts to develop methods for object detection in Remote Sensing (RS) images. In most cases, the datasets for small object detection in remote sensing images are inadequate. Many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Yi Wang , Syed Muhammad Arsalan Bashir , Mahrukh Khan , Qudrat Ullah , Rui Wang , Yilin Song , Zhe Guo , Yilong Niu

To address the issues of weak correlation between multi-view features, low recognition accuracy of small-scale targets, and insufficient robustness in complex scenarios in underground pipeline detection using 3D GPR, this paper proposes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Haotian Lv , Chao Li , Jiangbo Dai , Yuhui Zhang , Zepeng Fan , Yiqiu Tan , Dawei Wang , Binglei Xie

The rapid increase of space assets represented by small satellites in low Earth orbit can enable ubiquitous digital services for everyone. However, due to the dynamic space environment, numerous space objects, complex atmospheric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Wenxuan Zhang , Peng Hu

Object detection is a major challenge in computer vision, involving both object classification and object localization within a scene. While deep neural networks have been shown in recent years to yield very powerful techniques for tackling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Alexander Wong , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Francis Li , Brendan Chwyl

Detecting small objects in complex scenes, such as those captured by drones, is a daunting challenge due to the difficulty in capturing the complex features of small targets. While the YOLO family has achieved great success in large target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Defan Chen , Luchan Zhang

Recent advances in camera equipped drone applications and their widespread use increased the demand on vision based object detection algorithms for aerial images. Object detection process is inherently a challenging task as a generic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Berat Mert Albaba , Sedat Ozer

Low-light conditions and occluded scenarios impede object detection in real-world Internet of Things (IoT) applications like autonomous vehicles and security systems. While advanced machine learning models strive for accuracy, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Shubhabrata Mukherjee , Cory Beard , Zhu Li

As the popularity of on-orbit operations grows, so does the need for precise navigation around unknown resident space objects (RSOs) such as other spacecraft, orbital debris, and asteroids. The use of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Eric J. Elias , Michael Esswein , Jonathan P. How , David W. Miller

State-of-the-art object detection methods applied to satellite and drone imagery largely fail to identify small and dense objects. One reason is the high variability of content in the overhead imagery due to the terrestrial region captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Debojyoti Biswas , Jelena Tešić

The growing density of satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO) presents serious challenges to space sustainability, primarily due to the increased risk of in-orbit collisions. Traditional ground-based tracking systems are constrained by latency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Peng Hu , Wenxuan Zhang