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Automatic multi-class object detection in remote sensing images in unconstrained scenarios is of high interest for several applications including traffic monitoring and disaster management. The huge variation in object scale, orientation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Seyed Majid Azimi , Eleonora Vig , Reza Bahmanyar , Marco Körner , Peter Reinartz

Small target motion detection is critical for insects to search for and track mates or prey which always appear as small dim speckles in the visual field. A class of specific neurons, called small target motion detectors (STMDs), has been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Hongxin Wang , Jigen Peng , Shigang Yue

Transformers have been widely used in numerous vision problems especially for visual recognition and detection. Detection transformers are the first fully end-to-end learning systems for object detection, while vision transformers are the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hwanjun Song , Deqing Sun , Sanghyuk Chun , Varun Jampani , Dongyoon Han , Byeongho Heo , Wonjae Kim , Ming-Hsuan Yang

In recent years, significant advancements have been made in deep learning-based object detection algorithms, revolutionizing basic computer vision tasks, notably in object detection, tracking, and segmentation. This paper delves into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Kailas PS , Selvakumaran R , Palani Murugan , Ramesh Kumar , Malaya Kumar Biswal M

Accurate and robust detection of multi-class objects in optical remote sensing images is essential to many real-world applications such as urban planning, traffic control, searching and rescuing, etc. However, state-of-the-art object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Gongjie Zhang , Shijian Lu , Wei Zhang

In object detection, keypoint-based approaches often suffer a large number of incorrect object bounding boxes, arguably due to the lack of an additional look into the cropped regions. This paper presents an efficient solution which explores…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Kaiwen Duan , Song Bai , Lingxi Xie , Honggang Qi , Qingming Huang , Qi Tian

While generic object detection has achieved large improvements with rich feature hierarchies from deep nets, detecting small objects with poor visual cues remains challenging. Motion cues from multiple frames may be more informative for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Ryota Yoshihashi , Tu Tuan Trinh , Rei Kawakami , Shaodi You , Makoto Iida , Takeshi Naemura

Object detection is an essential task for autonomous robots operating in dynamic and changing environments. A robot should be able to detect objects in the presence of sensor noise that can be induced by changing lighting conditions for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Oier Mees , Andreas Eitel , Wolfram Burgard

Camouflaged object detection segments objects with intrinsic similarity and edge disruption. Current detection methods rely on accumulated complex components. Each approach adds components such as boundary modules, attention mechanisms, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Baber Jan , Saeed Anwar , Aiman H. El-Maleh , Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui , Abdul Bais

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

We classify the discontinuity of loss in both five-param and eight-param rotated object detection methods as rotation sensitivity error (RSE) which will result in performance degeneration. We introduce a novel modulated rotation loss to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Wen Qian , Xue Yang , Silong Peng , Junchi Yan , Xiujuan Zhang

Object detection is a crucial task in computer vision that aims to identify and localize objects in images or videos. The recent advancements in deep learning and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly improved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Hrishitva Patel

Object detection is the task of detecting objects in an image. In this task, the detection of small objects is particularly difficult. Other than the small size, it is also accompanied by difficulties due to blur, occlusion, and so on.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Da Huo , Marc A. Kastner , Tingwei Liu , Yasutomo Kawanishi , Takatsugu Hirayama , Takahiro Komamizu , Ichiro Ide

As a core problem in computer vision, the performance of object detection has improved drastically in the past few years. Despite their impressive performance, object detectors suffer from a lack of interpretability. Visualization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Ang Cao , Justin Johnson

Recently, object detection in aerial images has gained much attention in computer vision. Different from objects in natural images, aerial objects are often distributed with arbitrary orientation. Therefore, the detector requires more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Jiaming Han , Jian Ding , Nan Xue , Gui-Song Xia

The presence of occlusions has provided substantial challenges to typically-powerful object recognition algorithms. Additional sources of information can be extremely valuable to reduce errors caused by occlusions. Scene context is known to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Courtney M. King , Daniel D. Leeds , Damian Lyons , George Kalaitzis

The ability to accurately detect and classify objects at varying pixel sizes in cluttered scenes is crucial to many Navy applications. However, detection performance of existing state-of the-art approaches such as convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-28 JT Turner , Kalyan Moy Gupta , David Aha

Objects in aerial images usually have arbitrary orientations and are densely located over the ground, making them extremely challenge to be detected. Many recently developed methods attempt to solve these issues by estimating an extra…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Ran Qin , Qingjie Liu , Guangshuai Gao , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

Fully autonomous driving systems require fast detection and recognition of sensitive objects in the environment. In this context, intelligent vehicles should share their sensor data with computing platforms and/or other vehicles, to detect…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Valentina Rossi , Paolo Testolina , Marco Giordani , Michele Zorzi

The role of symmetry in computer vision has waxed and waned in importance during the evolution of the field from its earliest days. At first figuring prominently in support of bottom-up indexing, it fell out of favor as shape gave way to…

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