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Recently, there has been a considerable attention given to the motion detection problem due to the explosive growth of its applications in video analysis and surveillance systems. While the previous approaches can produce good results, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Sahar Yousefi , M. T. Manzuri Shalmani , Jeremy Lin , Marius Staring

Collision detection is one of the most challenging tasks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This is especially true for small or micro UAVs, due to their limited computational power. In nature, flying insects with compact and simple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jiannan Zhao , Hongxin Wang , Shigang Yue

In recent years, the satellite videos have been captured by a moving satellite platform. In contrast to consumer, movie, and common surveillance videos, satellite video can record the snapshot of the city-scale scene. In a broad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Wei Ao , Yanwei Fu , Feng Xu

This paper addresses the problem of selecting appearance features for multiple object tracking (MOT) in urban scenes. Over the years, a large number of features has been used for MOT. However, it is not clear whether some of them are better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Mehdi Miah , Justine Pepin , Nicolas Saunier , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau

For autonomous robots in dynamic environments mixed with human, it is vital to detect impending collision quickly and robustly. The biological visual systems evolved over millions of years may provide us efficient solutions for collision…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-22 Qinbing Fu , Cheng Hu , Shigang Yue

Aiming at the specific characteristics of flying bird objects in surveillance video, such as the typically non-obvious features in single-frame images, small size in most instances, and asymmetric shapes, this paper proposes a Flying Bird…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ziwei Sun , Zexi Hua , Hengchao Li , Yan Li

Zero-shot object detection (ZSD) aims to leverage semantic descriptions to localize and recognize objects of both seen and unseen classes. Existing ZSD works are mainly coarse-grained object detection, where the classes are visually quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Hongxu Ma , Chenbo Zhang , Lu Zhang , Jiaogen Zhou , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

Visual object tracking, which is primarily based on visible light image sequences, encounters numerous challenges in complicated scenarios, such as low light conditions, high dynamic ranges, and background clutter. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Hongze Sun , Rui Liu , Wuque Cai , Jun Wang , Yue Wang , Huajin Tang , Yan Cui , Dezhong Yao , Daqing Guo

Multi-scale detection plays an important role in object detection models. However, researchers usually feel blank on how to reasonably configure detection heads combining multi-scale features at different input resolutions. We find that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yi Shi , Jiang Wu , Shixuan Zhao , Gangyao Gao , Tao Deng , Hongmei Yan

Recent works have shown that objects discovery can largely benefit from the inherent motion information in video data. However, these methods lack a proper background processing, resulting in an over-segmentation of the non-object regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Sandra Kara , Hejer Ammar , Florian Chabot , Quoc-Cuong Pham

Many emerging applications of intelligent robots need to explore and understand new environments, where it is desirable to detect objects of novel classes on the fly with minimum online efforts. This is an object detection on demand (ODOD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Xiangyun Zhao , Xu Zou , Ying Wu

Security concerns has been kept on increasing, so it is important for everyone to keep their property safe from thefts and destruction. So the need for surveillance techniques are also increasing. The system has been developed to detect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Nayyab Naseem , Mehreen Sirshar

This paper aims at developing an automatic algorithm for moth recognition from trap images in real-world conditions. This method uses our previous work for detection [1] and introduces an adapted classification step. More precisely, SVM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Mohamed Chafik Bakkay , Sylvie Chambon , Hatem A. Rashwan , Christian Lubat , Sébastien Barsotti

Infrared small target detection plays a crucial role in military reconnaissance and air defense systems. However,existing low-rank sparse based methods still face high computational complexity when dealing with low-contrast small targets…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Ke-Xin Li

This paper presents a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) based system for reasoning about high speed motion. As a representative scenario, we consider the case of a robot at rest reacting to a small, fast approaching object at speeds higher than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Anthony Bisulco , Fernando Cladera Ojeda , Volkan Isler , Daniel D. Lee

Template-matching methods for visual tracking have gained popularity recently due to their good performance and fast speed. However, they lack effective ways to adapt to changes in the target object's appearance, making their tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Tianyu Yang , Antoni B. Chan

Infrared object tracking plays a crucial role in Anti-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Anti-UAV) applications. Existing trackers often depend on cropped template regions and have limited motion modeling capabilities, which pose challenges when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Chenxu Peng , Chenxu Wang , Minrui Zou , Danyang Li , Zhengpeng Yang , Yimian Dai , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiang Li

Tracking small, agile multi-objects (SMOT), such as birds, from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) perspective is a highly challenging computer vision task. The difficulty stems from three main sources: the extreme scarcity of target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xiang Yu , Xinyao Liu , Guang Liang

Infrared small target detection in an infrared search and track (IRST) system is a challenging task. This situation becomes more complicated when high gray-intensity structural backgrounds appear in the field of view (FoV) of the infrared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Saed Moradi , Payman Moallem , Mohamad Farzan Sabahi

This paper presents a modular lightweight network model for road objects detection, such as car, pedestrian and cyclist, especially when they are far away from the camera and their sizes are small. Great advances have been made for the deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Sen Cao , Yazhou Liu , Pongsak Lasang , Shengmei Shen