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Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) methods predominantly formulate the task as pixel-level segmentation, which requires costly dense annotations and is not well suited to tiny targets with weak texture and ambiguous boundaries. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Weihua Gao , Wenlong Niu , Jie Tang , Man Yang , Jiafeng Zhang , Xiaodong Peng

This paper explores the problem of Generalist Anomaly Detection (GAD), aiming to train one single detection model that can generalize to detect anomalies in diverse datasets from different application domains without any further training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jiawen Zhu , Guansong Pang

In this paper we consider the problem of quickly detecting changes in an intermittent signal that can (repeatedly) switch between a normal and an anomalous state. We pose this intermittent signal detection problem as an optimal stopping…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Jasmin James , Jason J. Ford , Timothy L. Molloy

Pedestrian detection remains a critical problem in various domains, such as computer vision, surveillance, and autonomous driving. In particular, accurate and instant detection of pedestrians in low-light conditions and reduced visibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Bahareh Ghari , Ali Tourani , Asadollah Shahbahrami , Georgi Gaydadjiev

Infrared and visible image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from co-registered source images to produce a single, informative result. Most learning-based approaches train with a combination of structural similarity loss,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Kaixuan Yang , Wei Xiang , Zhenshuai Chen , Tong Jin , Yunpeng Liu

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is critical to national security and has been extensively applied in military areas. ISTD aims to segment small target pixels from background. Most ISTD networks focus on designing feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Tianxiang Chen , Zhentao Tan , Qi Chu , Yue Wu , Bin Liu , Nenghai Yu

Detection of moving objects in videos is a crucial step towards successful surveillance and monitoring applications. A key component for such tasks is called background subtraction and tries to extract regions of interest from the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Konstantinos Makantasis , Antonis Nikitakis , Anastasios Doulamis , Nikolaos Doulamis , Yannis Papaefstathiou

Anomaly detection in complex, high-dimensional data, such as UAV sensor readings, is essential for operational safety but challenging for existing methods due to their limited sensitivity, scalability, and inability to capture intricate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mingze Gong , Juan Du , Jianbang You

The technique of detecting multiple dim and small targets with low signal-to-clutter ratios (SCR) is very important for infrared search and tracking systems. In this paper, we establish a detection method derived from maximal entropy random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Chaoqun Xia , Xiaorun Li , Liaoying Zhao , Shuhan Chen

Visual motion detection for extremely tiny (ET-) targets is challenging, due to their category-independent nature and the scarcity of visual cues, which often incapacitate mainstream feature-based models. Natural architectures with rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mingshuo Xu , Hao Luan , Zhou Daniel Hao , Jigen Peng , Shigang Yue

Deep learning-based detection networks have made remarkable progress in autonomous driving systems (ADS). ADS should have reliable performance across a variety of ambient lighting and adverse weather conditions. However, luminance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Shruthi Gowda , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

Anomaly detectors address the difficult problem of detecting automatically exceptions in an arbitrary background image. Detection methods have been proposed by the thousands because each problem requires a different background model. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Axel Davy , Thibaud Ehret , Jean-Michel Morel , Mauricio Delbracio

Detecting small objects, such as drones, over long distances presents a significant challenge with broad implications for security, surveillance, environmental monitoring, and autonomous systems. Traditional imaging-based methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Junran Guo , Tonglin Mu , Keyuan Li , Jianing Li , Ziyang Luo , Ye Chen , Xiaodong Fan , Jinquan Huang , Minjie Liu , Jinbei Zhang , Ruoyang Qi , Naiting Gu , Shihai Sun

The widespread deployment of Infrared Small-Target Detection (IRSTD) algorithms on edge devices necessitates the exploration of model compression techniques. Binarized neural networks (BNNs) are distinguished by their exceptional efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Biqiao Xin , Qianchen Mao , Bingshu Wang , Jiangbin Zheng , Yong Zhao , C. L. Philip Chen

A new method of distortion mitigation for multitarget interferometric angular velocity estimation in millimeter-wave radar is presented. In general, when multiple targets are present, the response of a correlation interferometer is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-20 Eric Klinefelter , Jason M. Merlo , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

Deploying autonomous robots in crowded indoor environments usually requires them to have accurate dynamic obstacle perception. Although plenty of previous works in the autonomous driving field have investigated the 3D object detection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Zhefan Xu , Xiaoyang Zhan , Yumeng Xiu , Christopher Suzuki , Kenji Shimada

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) remains challenging due to the scarcity of useful target cues and the presence of severe background clutter. Most current methods rely on conventional feature learning and local interaction modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Qianwen Ma , Yang Xu , Shangwei Deng , Xiaobo Li , Haofeng Hu

RGB-D tracking significantly improves the accuracy of object tracking. However, its dependency on real depth inputs and the complexity involved in multi-modal fusion limit its applicability across various scenarios. The utilization of depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zhenyu Wei , Yujie He , Zhanchuan Cai

Small object detection (SOD) is a critical yet challenging task in computer vision, with applications like spanning surveillance, autonomous systems, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Unlike larger objects, small objects contain limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Mahya Nikouei , Bita Baroutian , Shahabedin Nabavi , Fateme Taraghi , Atefe Aghaei , Ayoob Sajedi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

Despite their remarkable performance, deep neural networks exhibit a critical vulnerability: small, often imperceptible, adversarial perturbations can lead to drastically altered model predictions. Given the stringent reliability demands of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Mohammad Mahdi Razmjoo , Mohammad Mahdi Sharifian , Saeed Bagheri Shouraki