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Object detection is the identification of an object in the image along with its localisation and classification. It has wide spread applications and is a critical component for vision based software systems. This paper seeks to perform a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Karanbir Singh Chahal , Kuntal Dey

Visual context is one of the important clue for object detection and the context information for boundaries of an object is especially valuable. We propose a boundary aware network (BAN) designed to exploit the visual contexts including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Yonghyun Kim , Taewook Kim , Bong-Nam Kang , Jieun Kim , Daijin Kim

Despite recent advances, object detection in aerial images is still a challenging task. Specific problems in aerial images makes the detection problem harder, such as small objects, densely packed objects, objects in different sizes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Onur Can Koyun , Reyhan Kevser Keser , İbrahim Batuhan Akkaya , Behçet Uğur Töreyin

Context is important for accurate visual recognition. In this work we propose an object detection algorithm that not only considers object visual appearance, but also makes use of two kinds of context including scene contextual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Yong Liu , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

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

Blackbox transfer attacks for image classifiers have been extensively studied in recent years. In contrast, little progress has been made on transfer attacks for object detectors. Object detectors take a holistic view of the image and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Zikui Cai , Xinxin Xie , Shasha Li , Mingjun Yin , Chengyu Song , Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , M. Salman Asif

3D object detection in point cloud data remains a challenging task due to the sparsity and lack of global structure inherent in the input. In this work, we propose a novel Multi-Scale Attention (MSA) mechanism integrated into the 3DETR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mustaqeem Khan , Aidana Nurakhmetova , Wail Gueaieb , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Object detection is a fundamental task in computer vision, requiring large annotated datasets that are difficult to collect, as annotators need to label objects and their bounding boxes. Thus, it is a significant challenge to use cheaper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Achiya Jerbi , Roei Herzig , Jonathan Berant , Gal Chechik , Amir Globerson

In recent years, attention mechanisms have significantly enhanced the performance of object detection by focusing on key feature information. However, prevalent methods still encounter difficulties in effectively balancing local and global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yifan Shao

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

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

This paper presents a new deep neural network design for salient object detection by maximizing the integration of local and global image context within, around, and beyond the salient objects. Our key idea is to adaptively propagate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Xiaowei Hu , Chi-Wing Fu , Lei Zhu , Tianyu Wang , Pheng-Ann Heng

Efficient generation of high-quality object proposals is an essential step in state-of-the-art object detection systems based on deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) features. Current object proposal algorithms are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Yongxi Lu , Tara Javidi

The recurring context in which objects appear holds valuable information that can be employed to predict their existence. This intuitive observation indeed led many researchers to endow appearance-based detectors with explicit reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Ehud Barnea , Ohad Ben-Shahar

We propose a novel approach for class-agnostic object proposal generation, which is efficient and especially well-suited to detect small objects. Efficiency is achieved by scale-specific objectness attention maps which focus the processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Christian Wilms , Simone Frintrop

Object detection has made impressive progress in recent years with the help of deep learning. However, state-of-the-art algorithms are both computation and memory intensive. Though many lightweight networks are developed for a trade-off…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Fanrong Li , Zitao Mo , Peisong Wang , Zejian Liu , Jiayun Zhang , Gang Li , Qinghao Hu , Xiangyu He , Cong Leng , Yang Zhang , Jian Cheng

State-of-the-art object detection systems rely on an accurate set of region proposals. Several recent methods use a neural network architecture to hypothesize promising object locations. While these approaches are computationally efficient,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Yongxi Lu , Tara Javidi , Svetlana Lazebnik

Small object detection (SOD) in optical images and videos is a challenging problem that even state-of-the-art generic object detection methods fail to accurately localize and identify such objects. Typically, small objects appear in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Aref Miri Rekavandi , Lian Xu , Farid Boussaid , Abd-Krim Seghouane , Stephen Hoefs , Mohammed Bennamoun

Learning to localize objects with minimal supervision is an important problem in computer vision, since large fully annotated datasets are extremely costly to obtain. In this paper, we propose a new method that achieves this goal with only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-19 Hyun Oh Song , Ross Girshick , Stefanie Jegelka , Julien Mairal , Zaid Harchaoui , Trevor Darrell

This study aims to analyze the benefits of improved multi-scale reasoning for object detection and localization with deep convolutional neural networks. To that end, an efficient and general object detection framework which operates on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Eshed Ohn-Bar , M. M. Trivedi