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Road obstacle detection is an important problem for vehicle driving safety. In this paper, we aim to obtain robust road obstacle detection based on spatio-temporal context modeling. Firstly, a data-driven spatial context model of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Xiuen Wu , Tao Wang , Lingyu Liang , Zuoyong Li , Fum Yew Ching

The small objects in images and videos are usually not independent individuals. Instead, they more or less present some semantic and spatial layout relationships with each other. Modeling and inferring such intrinsic relationships can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Kui Fu , Jia Li , Lin Ma , Kai Mu , Yonghong Tian

Object detection plays an important role in various visual applications. However, the precision and speed of detector are usually contradictory. One main reason for fast detectors' precision reduction is that small objects are hard to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Siyang Sun , Yingjie Yin , Xingang Wang , De Xu , Yuan Zhao , Haifeng Shen

In CNN-based object detection methods, region proposal becomes a bottleneck when objects exhibit significant scale variation, occlusion or truncation. In addition, these methods mainly focus on 2D object detection and cannot estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Yu Xiang , Wongun Choi , Yuanqing Lin , Silvio Savarese

The vast number of existing IP cameras in current road networks is an opportunity to take advantage of the captured data and analyze the video and detect any significant events. For this purpose, it is necessary to detect moving vehicles, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Iván García , Rafael Marcos Luque , Ezequiel López

For most of the object detectors based on multi-scale feature maps, the shallow layers are rich in fine spatial information and thus mainly responsible for small object detection. The performance of small object detection, however, is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Lisha Cui , Rui Ma , Pei Lv , Xiaoheng Jiang , Zhimin Gao , Bing Zhou , Mingliang Xu

Object detection has been a building block in computer vision. Though considerable progress has been made, there still exist challenges for objects with small size, arbitrary direction, and dense distribution. Apart from natural images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Xue Yang , Jirui Yang , Junchi Yan , Yue Zhang , Tengfei Zhang , Zhi Guo , Sun Xian , Kun Fu

The eye-tracking video saliency prediction (VSP) task and video salient object detection (VSOD) task both focus on the most attractive objects in video and show the result in the form of predictive heatmaps and pixel-level saliency masks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qi Qin , Runmin Cong , Gen Zhan , Yiting Liao , Sam Kwong

Few-Shot Object Detection (FSOD) is a rapidly growing field in computer vision. It consists in finding all occurrences of a given set of classes with only a few annotated examples for each class. Numerous methods have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Pierre Le Jeune , Anissa Mokraoui

In the current salient object detection network, the most popular method is using U-shape structure. However, the massive number of parameters leads to more consumption of computing and storage resources which are not feasible to deploy on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Bin Zhang , Yang Wu , Xiaojing Zhang , Ming Ma

Object detection is an essential step towards holistic scene understanding. Most existing object detection algorithms attend to certain object areas once and then predict the object locations. However, neuroscientists have revealed that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Shiyi Lan , Zhou Ren , Yi Wu , Larry S. Davis , Gang Hua

Many object detection models struggle with several problematic aspects of small object detection including the low number of samples, lack of diversity and low features representation. Taking into account that GANs belong to generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Magdalena Stachoń , Marcin Pietroń

Weakly supervised object detection aims at learning precise object detectors, given image category labels. In recent prevailing works, this problem is generally formulated as a multiple instance learning module guided by an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Xiaoyan Li , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Object detection plays a deep role in visual systems by identifying instances for downstream algorithms. In industrial scenarios, however, a slight change in manufacturing systems would lead to costly data re-collection and human annotation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Tung-I Chen , Jen-Wei Wang , Winston H. Hsu

Recognizing objects from simultaneously sensed photometric (RGB) and depth channels is a fundamental yet practical problem in many machine vision applications such as robot grasping and autonomous driving. In this paper, we address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Guanbin Li , Yukang Gan , Hejun Wu , Nong Xiao , Liang Lin

Following the success of machine vision systems for on-line automated quality control and inspection processes, an object recognition solution is presented in this work for two different specific applications, i.e., the detection of quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Kai Yao , Alberto Ortiz , Francisco Bonnin-Pascual

Recent cutting-edge feature aggregation paradigms for video object detection rely on inferring feature correspondence. The feature correspondence estimation problem is fundamentally difficult due to poor image quality, motion blur, etc, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Hao Luo , Lichao Huang , Han Shen , Yuan Li , Chang Huang , Xinggang Wang

Object detection when provided image-level labels instead of instance-level labels (i.e., bounding boxes) during training is an important problem in computer vision, since large scale image datasets with instance-level labels are extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Ziang Yan , Jian Liang , Weishen Pan , Jin Li , Changshui Zhang

Unsupervised object discovery, the task of identifying and localizing objects in images without human-annotated labels, remains a significant challenge and a growing focus in computer vision. In this work, we introduce a novel model, DADO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Federico Gonzalez , Estefania Talavera , Petia Radeva

In this chapter, we present a brief overview of the recent development in object detection using convolutional neural networks (CNN). Several classical CNN-based detectors are presented. Some developments are based on the detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Kaidong Li , Wenchi Ma , Usman Sajid , Yuanwei Wu , Guanghui Wang