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Small-object detection is a challenging problem. In the last few years, the convolution neural networks methods have been achieved considerable progress. However, the current detectors struggle with effective features extraction for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Eric Granger , Jocelyn Chanussot , Jie Yang

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

Feature pyramids have become ubiquitous in multi-scale computer vision tasks such as object detection. Given their importance, a computer vision network can be divided into three parts: a backbone (generating a feature pyramid), a neck…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Cédric Picron , Tinne Tuytelaars

Recent advancements in deep neural networks have made remarkable leap-forwards in dense image prediction. However, the issue of feature alignment remains as neglected by most existing approaches for simplicity. Direct pixel addition between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Shihua Huang , Zhichao Lu , Ran Cheng , Cheng He

FPN-based detectors have made significant progress in general object detection, e.g., MS COCO and PASCAL VOC. However, these detectors fail in certain application scenarios, e.g., tiny object detection. In this paper, we argue that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yuqi Gong , Xuehui Yu , Yao Ding , Xiaoke Peng , Jian Zhao , Zhenjun Han

Ultrasound (US) image segmentation is an active research area that requires real-time and highly accurate analysis in many scenarios. The detect-to-segment (DTS) frameworks have been recently proposed to balance accuracy and efficiency.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Chaoyu Chen , Xin Yang , Rusi Chen , Junxuan Yu , Liwei Du , Jian Wang , Xindi Hu , Yan Cao , Yingying Liu , Dong Ni

Feature pyramid networks (FPN) are widely exploited for multi-scale feature fusion in existing advanced object detection frameworks. Numerous previous works have developed various structures for bidirectional feature fusion, all of which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhuofan Zong , Qianggang Cao , Biao Leng

Due to the advantages of real-time detection and improved performance, single-shot detectors have gained great attention recently. To solve the complex scale variations, single-shot detectors make scale-aware predictions based on multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yazhao Li , Yanwei Pang , Jianbing Shen , Jiale Cao , Ling Shao

FPN is a common component used in object detectors, it supplements multi-scale information by adjacent level features interpolation and summation. However, due to the existence of nonlinear operations and the convolutional layers with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Jialiang Ma , Bin Chen

Feature pyramid networks have been widely adopted in the object detection literature to improve feature representations for better handling of variations in scale. In this paper, we present Feature Pyramid Grids (FPG), a deep multi-pathway…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Kai Chen , Yuhang Cao , Chen Change Loy , Dahua Lin , Christoph Feichtenhofer

Image deblurring has seen a great improvement with the development of deep neural networks. In practice, however, blurry images often suffer from additional degradations such as downscaling and compression. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Ruikang Xu , Zeyu Xiao , Jie Huang , Yueyi Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong

Salient object detection has achieved great improvement by using the Fully Convolution Network (FCN). However, the FCN-based U-shape architecture may cause the dilution problem in the high-level semantic information during the up-sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Guangyu Ren , Tianhong Dai , Panagiotis Barmpoutis , Tania Stathaki

Small object detection is challenging because small objects do not contain detailed information and may even disappear in the deep network. Usually, feeding high-resolution images into a network can alleviate this issue. However, simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Ziming Liu , Guangyu Gao , Lin Sun , Zhiyuan Fang

3D object detection with a single image is an essential and challenging task for autonomous driving. Recently, keypoint-based monocular 3D object detection has made tremendous progress and achieved great speed-accuracy trade-off. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Lei Yang , Xinyu Zhang , Li Wang , Minghan Zhu , Jun Li

With the increasing demand for search and rescue, it is highly demanded to detect objects of interest in large-scale images captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which is quite challenging due to extremely small scales of objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Mingbo Hong , Shuiwang Li , Yuchao Yang , Feiyu Zhu , Qijun Zhao , Li Lu

State-of-the-art object detectors usually learn multi-scale representations to get better results by employing feature pyramids. However, the current designs for feature pyramids are still inefficient to integrate the semantic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Tao Kong , Fuchun Sun , Wenbing Huang , Huaping Liu

Dense pixel matching is required for many computer vision algorithms such as disparity, optical flow or scene flow estimation. Feature Pyramid Networks (FPN) have proven to be a suitable feature extractor for CNN-based dense matching tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Rishav , René Schuster , Ramy Battrawy , Oliver Wasenmüller , Didier Stricker

Recently, change detection (CD) of remote sensing images have achieved great progress with the advances of deep learning. However, current methods generally deliver incomplete CD regions and irregular CD boundaries due to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Tianyu Yan , Zifu Wan , Pingping Zhang

Despite advancements in Transformer-based detectors for small object detection (SOD), recent studies show that these detectors still face challenges due to inherent noise sensitivity in feature pyramid networks (FPN) and diminished query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Xiaocheng Fang , Jieyi Cai , Huanyu Liu , Wenxiu Cai , Yishu Liu , Bingzhi Chen

We consider the problem of segmentation and classification of high-resolution and hyperspectral remote sensing images. Unlike conventional natural (RGB) images, the inherent large scale and complex structures of remote sensing images pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Qingsong Xu , Xin Yuan , Chaojun Ouyang , Yue Zeng