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Feature pyramids have been proven powerful in image understanding tasks that require multi-scale features. State-of-the-art methods for multi-scale feature learning focus on performing feature interactions across space and scales using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Gangming Zhao , Weifeng Ge , Yizhou Yu

The visual feature pyramid has proven its effectiveness and efficiency in target detection tasks. Yet, current methodologies tend to overly emphasize inter-layer feature interaction, neglecting the crucial aspect of intra-layer feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Weilin Xiao , Ming Xu , Yonggui Lin

Although much significant progress has been made in the research field of object detection with deep learning, there still exists a challenging task for the objects with small size, which is notably pronounced in UAV-captured images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yingjie Liu

Feature pyramid architecture has been broadly adopted in object detection and segmentation to deal with multi-scale problem. However, in this paper we show that the capacity of the architecture has not been fully explored due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Fan Yang , Cheng Lu , Yandong Guo , Longin Jan Latecki , Haibin Ling

The detection of small objects, particularly traffic signs, is a critical subtask within object detection and autonomous driving. Despite the notable achievements in previous research, two primary challenges persist. Firstly, the main issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Pengyu Li , Chenhe Liu , Tengfei Li , Xinyu Wang , Shihui Zhang , Dongyang Yu

Small object detection remains a significant challenge due to feature degradation from downsampling, mutual occlusion in dense clusters, and complex background interference. To address these issues, this paper proposes FSDETR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jianchao Huang , Fengming Zhang , Haibo Zhu , Tao Yan

Convolutional neural network (CNN) has led to significant progress in object detection. In order to detect the objects in various sizes, the object detectors often exploit the hierarchy of the multi-scale feature maps called feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jin Hyeok Yoo , Dongsuk Kum , Jun Won Choi

Remote sensor image object detection is an important technology for Earth observation, and is used in various tasks such as forest fire monitoring and ocean monitoring. Image object detection technology, despite the significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Gu Lingyun , Eugene Popov , Dong Ge

A novel Face Pyramid Vision Transformer (FPVT) is proposed to learn a discriminative multi-scale facial representations for face recognition and verification. In FPVT, Face Spatial Reduction Attention (FSRA) and Dimensionality Reduction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Khawar Islam , Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Arif Mahmood

Model efficiency has become increasingly important in computer vision. In this paper, we systematically study neural network architecture design choices for object detection and propose several key optimizations to improve efficiency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Mingxing Tan , Ruoming Pang , Quoc V. Le

Feature matters for salient object detection. Existing methods mainly focus on designing a sophisticated structure to incorporate multi-level features and filter out cluttered features. We present Progressive Feature Polishing Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Bo Wang , Quan Chen , Min Zhou , Zhiqiang Zhang , Xiaogang Jin , Kun Gai

Current state-of-the-art detectors typically exploit feature pyramid to detect objects at different scales. Among them, FPN is one of the representative works that build a feature pyramid by multi-scale features summation. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Chaoxu Guo , Bin Fan , Qian Zhang , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

Detecting objects in aerial images confronts some significant challenges, including small size, dense and non-uniform distribution of objects over high-resolution images, which makes detection inefficient. Thus, in this paper, we proposed a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zhangjian Ji , Huijia Yan , Shaotong Qiao , Kai Feng , Wei Wei

Current state-of-the-art convolutional architectures for object detection are manually designed. Here we aim to learn a better architecture of feature pyramid network for object detection. We adopt Neural Architecture Search and discover a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Golnaz Ghiasi , Tsung-Yi Lin , Ruoming Pang , Quoc V. Le

The Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) presents a remarkable approach to alleviate the scale variance in object representation by performing instance-level assignments. Nevertheless, this strategy ignores the distinct characteristics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Lin Song , Yanwei Li , Zhengkai Jiang , Zeming Li , Hongbin Sun , Jian Sun , Nanning Zheng

Tiny object detection (TOD) reveals a fundamental flaw in feature pyramid networks: high-level features (P5-P6) frequently receive zero positive anchors under standard label assignment protocols, leaving their semantic representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Tao Liu , Zhenchao Cui

Cross-layer feature pyramid networks (CFPNs) have achieved notable progress in multi-scale feature fusion and boundary detail preservation for salient object detection. However, traditional CFPNs still suffer from two core limitations: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Jin Lian , Zhongyu Wan , Ming Gao , JunFeng Chen

State-of-the-art (SoTA) models have improved the accuracy of object detection with a large margin via a FP (feature pyramid). FP is a top-down aggregation to collect semantically strong features to improve scale invariance in both two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Ping-Yang Chen , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Chien-Yao Wang , Hong-Yuan Mark Liao , Munkhjargal Gochoo

This paper proposes the Parallel Residual Bi-Fusion Feature Pyramid Network (PRB-FPN) for fast and accurate single-shot object detection. Feature Pyramid (FP) is widely used in recent visual detection, however the top-down pathway of FP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Ping-Yang Chen , Ming-Ching Chang , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Yong-Sheng Chen

Traffic sign detection is a challenging task for the unmanned driving system, especially for the detection of multi-scale targets and the real-time problem of detection. In the traffic sign detection process, the scale of the targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Junfan Wang , Yi Chen , Mingyu Gao , Zhekang Dong