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Target detection is pivotal for modern urban computing applications. While image-based techniques are widely adopted, they falter under challenging environmental conditions such as adverse weather, poor lighting, and occlusion. To improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Chen Zhu , Zhouxiang Zhao , Zejing Shan , Lijie Yang , Sijie Ji , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

This paper presents a new Bayesian model and associated algorithm for depth and intensity profiling using full waveforms from time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) measurements in the limit of very low photon counts (i.e.,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-14 Yoann Altmann , Ximing Ren , Aongus McCarthy , Gerald S. Buller , Steve McLaughlin

Synthetic infrared (IR) scene and target generation is an important computer vision problem as it allows the generation of realistic IR images and targets for training and testing of various applications, such as remote sensing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Avinash Upadhyay , Manoj sharma , Prerana Mukherjee , Amit Singhal , Brejesh Lall

Image set classification (ISC), which can be viewed as a task of comparing similarities between sets consisting of unordered heterogeneous images with variable quantities and qualities, has attracted growing research attention in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xizhan Gao , Wei Hu

We examine the possibility of using near-infrared scattering to constrain the local radiation field and the dust properties, for example, the size distribution of the grains, and maximum grain size. We use radiative transfer modelling to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-20 Mika Saajasto , Mika Juvela , Johanna Malinen

In this paper, we propose a multi-object detection and tracking method using depth cameras. Depth maps are very noisy and obscure in object detection. We first propose a region-based method to suppress high magnitude noise which cannot be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Sachin Mehta , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

In inverse rendering, accurately modeling visibility and indirect radiance for incident light is essential for capturing secondary effects. Due to the absence of a powerful Gaussian ray tracer, previous 3DGS-based methods have either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Chun Gu , Xiaofei Wei , Zixuan Zeng , Yuxuan Yao , Li Zhang

This paper proposes a method for detecting multiple scatterers (targets) in the elevation direction for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography. The proposed method can resolve closely spaced targets through a twostep procedure. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Ahmad Naghavi , Mohammad Sadegh Fazel , Mojtaba Beheshti , Ehsan Yazdian

Visual tracking fundamentally involves regressing the state of the target in each frame of a video. Despite significant progress, existing regression-based trackers still tend to experience failures and inaccuracies. To enhance the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zhuang Qi , Junlin Zhang , Xin Qi

We consider multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar systems with widely-spaced antennas. Such antenna configuration facilitates capturing the inherent diversity gain due to independent signal dispersion by the target scatterers. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Ali Tajer , Guido H. Jajamovich , Xiaodong Wang , George V. Moustakides

Automotive radar provides reliable environmental perception in all-weather conditions with affordable cost, but it hardly supplies semantic and geometry information due to the sparsity of radar detection points. With the development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jianan Liu , Weiyi Xiong , Liping Bai , Yuxuan Xia , Tao Huang , Wanli Ouyang , Bing Zhu

Multispectral object detection aims to leverage complementary information from visible (RGB) and infrared (IR) modalities to enable robust performance under diverse environmental conditions. Our key insight, derived from wavelet analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Seongmin Hwang , Daeyoung Han , Moongu Jeon

The data-driven method for infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has achieved promising results. However, due to the small scale of infrared small target datasets and the limited number of pixels occupied by the targets themselves, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Peichao Wang , Jiabao Wang , Yao Chen , Rui Zhang , Yang Li , Zhuang Miao

Inverse Tone Mapping (ITM) methods attempt to reconstruct High Dynamic Range (HDR) information from Low Dynamic Range (LDR) image content. The dynamic range of well-exposed areas must be expanded and any missing information due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Demetris Marnerides , Thomas Bashford-Rogers , Kurt Debattista

Existing integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) platforms fail to fully utilize the shared spectrum and aperture resources for sensing, resulting in poor sensing performance. Specifically, weak target sensing on the ISAC platform, such…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Zhuoyang Liu , Yixiang Luomei , Feng Xu

Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is an effective tool for detecting a moving target in spaceborne or airborne radar systems. Statistical-based STAP methods generally need sufficient statistically independent and identically distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-26 Ke Sun , Hao Zhang , Gang Li , Huadong Meng , Xiqin Wang

Thermal infrared target tracking is crucial in applications such as surveillance, autonomous driving, and military operations. In this paper, we propose a novel tracker, SMTT, which effectively addresses common challenges in thermal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shang Zhang , HuiPan Guan , XiaoBo Ding , Ruoyan Xiong , Yue Zhang

The Multiple Instance Hybrid Estimator for discriminative target characterization from imprecisely labeled hyperspectral data is presented. In many hyperspectral target detection problems, acquiring accurately labeled training data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Changzhe Jiao , Chao Chen , Ronald G. McGarvey , Stephanie Bohlman , Licheng Jiao , Alina Zare

Searching for small objects in large images is a task that is both challenging for current deep learning systems and important in numerous real-world applications, such as remote sensing and medical imaging. Thorough scanning of very large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Nathan Drenkow , Philippe Burlina , Neil Fendley , Onyekachi Odoemene , Jared Markowitz

In the multimedia domain, Infrared Small Target Detection (ISTD) plays a important role in drone-based multi-modality sensing. To address the dual challenges of cross-domain shift and heteroscedastic noise perturbations in ISTD, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yuehui Li , Yahao Lu , Haoyuan Wu , Sen Zhang , Liang Lin , Yukai Shi