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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

Small object detection via UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) images captured from drones and radar is a complex task with several formidable challenges. This domain encompasses numerous complexities that impede the accurate detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Vipin Gautam , Shitala Prasad , Sharad Sinha

Camouflaged object detection is an emerging and challenging computer vision task that requires identifying and segmenting objects that blend seamlessly into their environments due to high similarity in color, texture, and size. This task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Leena Alghamdi , Muhammad Usman , Hafeez Anwar , Abdul Bais , Saeed Anwar

Object detection problem solving has developed greatly within the past few years. There is a need for lighter models in instances where hardware limitations exist, as well as a demand for models to be tailored to mobile devices. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Mohammad Hajizadeh , Mohammad Sabokrou , Adel Rahmani

Recent researches attempt to improve the detection performance by adopting the idea of cascade for single-stage detectors. In this paper, we analyze and discover that inconsistency is the major factor limiting the performance. The refined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Hongkai Zhang , Hong Chang , Bingpeng Ma , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

We present MatrixNets (xNets), a new deep architecture for object detection. xNets map objects with similar sizes and aspect ratios into many specialized layers, allowing xNets to provide a scale and aspect ratio aware architecture. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Abdullah Rashwan , Rishav Agarwal , Agastya Kalra , Pascal Poupart

Object detection often costs a considerable amount of computation to get satisfied performance, which is unfriendly to be deployed in edge devices. To address the trade-off between computational cost and detection accuracy, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Huimin Shi , Quan Zhou , Yinghao Ni , Xiaofu Wu , Longin Jan Latecki

Detection of small-sized targets in aerial views is a challenging task due to the smallness of vehicle size, complex background, and monotonic object appearances. In this letter, we propose a one-stage vehicle detection network (AVDNet) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Murari Mandal , Manal Shah , Prashant Meena , Sanhita Devi , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

Object detection and classification is one of the most important computer vision problems. Ever since the introduction of deep learning \cite{krizhevsky2012imagenet}, we have witnessed a dramatic increase in the accuracy of this object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Gurjeet Singh , Sun Miao , Shi Shi , Patrick Chiang

Camouflaged object detection segments objects with intrinsic similarity and edge disruption. Current detection methods rely on accumulated complex components. Each approach adds components such as boundary modules, attention mechanisms, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Baber Jan , Saeed Anwar , Aiman H. El-Maleh , Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui , Abdul Bais

Recent CNN based object detectors, no matter one-stage methods like YOLO, SSD, and RetinaNe or two-stage detectors like Faster R-CNN, R-FCN and FPN are usually trying to directly finetune from ImageNet pre-trained models designed for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Zeming Li , Chao Peng , Gang Yu , Xiangyu Zhang , Yangdong Deng , Jian Sun

Object detection and tracking are challenging tasks for resource-constrained embedded systems. While these tasks are among the most compute-intensive tasks from the artificial intelligence domain, they are only allowed to use limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Xiaofan Zhang , Haoming Lu , Cong Hao , Jiachen Li , Bowen Cheng , Yuhong Li , Kyle Rupnow , Jinjun Xiong , Thomas Huang , Honghui Shi , Wen-mei Hwu , Deming Chen

Object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) images poses significant challenges due to complex scale variations and class imbalance among objects. Existing methods often address these challenges separately, overlooking the intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhenteng Li , Sheng Lian , Dengfeng Pan , Youlin Wang , Wei Liu

Drone detection in visually complex environments remains challenging due to background clutter, small object scale, and camouflage effects. While generic object detectors like YOLO exhibit strong performance in low-texture scenes, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tamara R. Lenhard , Andreas Weinmann , Tobias Koch

Drones or UAVs, equipped with different sensors, have been deployed in many places especially for urban traffic monitoring or last-mile delivery. It provides the ability to control the different aspects of traffic given real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 George Adaimi , Sven Kreiss , Alexandre Alahi

Object detection and counting are related but challenging problems, especially for drone based scenes with small objects and cluttered background. In this paper, we propose a new Guided Attention Network (GANet) to deal with both object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Yuanqiang Cai , Dawei Du , Libo Zhang , Longyin Wen , Weiqiang Wang , Yanjun Wu , Siwei Lyu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) are emerging as a promising technology for both environmental and infrastructure monitoring, with broad use in a plethora of applications. Many such applications require the use of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Christos Kyrkou , George Plastiras , Stylianos Venieris , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

Recent years have witnessed many exciting achievements for object detection using deep learning techniques. Despite achieving significant progresses, most existing detectors are designed to detect objects with relatively low-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Xiongwei Wu , Daoxin Zhang , Jianke Zhu , Steven C. H. Hoi

Drone equipped with cameras can dynamically track the target in the air from a broader view compared with static cameras or moving sensors over the ground. However, it is still challenging to accurately track the target using a single drone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Pengfei Zhu , Jiayu Zheng , Dawei Du , Longyin Wen , Yiming Sun , Qinghua Hu

This paper addresses the problem of common object detection, which aims to detect objects of similar categories from a set of images. Although it shares some similarities with the standard object detection and co-segmentation, common object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Chuong H. Nguyen , Thuy C. Nguyen , Anh H. Vo , Yamazaki Masayuki