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Thermal infrared (TIR) image has proven effectiveness in providing temperature cues to the RGB features for multispectral pedestrian detection. Most existing methods directly inject the TIR modality into the RGB-based framework or simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Xiaoxiao Yang , Yeqian Qiang , Huijie Zhu , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Multispectral images consisting of aligned visual-optical (VIS) and thermal infrared (IR) image pairs are well-suited for practical applications like autonomous driving or visual surveillance. Such data can be used to increase the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Alexander Wolpert , Michael Teutsch , M. Saquib Sarfraz , Rainer Stiefelhagen

This paper proposes a thermal-infrared (TIR) remote target detection system for maritime rescue using deep learning and data augmentation. We established a self-collected TIR dataset consisting of multiple scenes imitating human rescue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Sungjin Cheong , Wonho Jung , Yoon Seop Lim , Yong-Hwa Park

The performance of neural network models is often limited by the availability of big data sets. To treat this problem, we survey and develop novel synthetic data generation and augmentation techniques for enhancing low/zero-sample learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Nathan Clement , Alan Schoen , Arnold Boedihardjo , Andrew Jenkins

The demand for pedestrian detection has created a challenging problem for various visual tasks such as image fusion. As infrared images can capture thermal radiation information, image fusion between infrared and visible images could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zhipeng Chang , Ruiling Ma , Wenliang Jia

Multispectral pedestrian detection has gained significant attention in recent years, particularly in autonomous driving applications. To address the challenges posed by adversarial illumination conditions, the combination of thermal and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Arunkumar Rathinam , Leo Pauly , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Wassim Rharbaoui , Anis Kacem , Vincent Gaudillière , Djamila Aouada

The majority of learning-based semantic segmentation methods are optimized for daytime scenarios and favorable lighting conditions. Real-world driving scenarios, however, entail adverse environmental conditions such as nighttime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Johan Vertens , Jannik Zürn , Wolfram Burgard

Accurate and efficient pedestrian detection is crucial for the intelligent transportation system regarding pedestrian safety and mobility, e.g., Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, and smart pedestrian crosswalk systems. Among all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Yifan Zhuang , Ziyuan Pu , Jia Hu , Yinhai Wang

Accurate plant segmentation in thermal imagery remains a significant challenge for high throughput field phenotyping, particularly in outdoor environments where low contrast between plants and weeds and frequent occlusions hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Earl Ranario , Ismael Mayanja , Heesup Yun , Brian N. Bailey , J. Mason Earles

In robot vision, thermal cameras hold great potential for recognizing humans even in complete darkness. However, their application to multi-person tracking (MPT) has been limited due to data scarcity and the inherent difficulty of…

Infrared imagery enables temperature-based scene understanding using passive sensors, particularly under conditions of low visibility where traditional RGB imaging fails. Yet, developing downstream vision models for infrared applications is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Kai A. Horstmann , Maxim Clouser , Kia Khezeli

Interest in automatic people re-identification systems has significantly grown in recent years, mainly for developing surveillance and smart shops software. Due to the variability in person posture, different lighting conditions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Victor Uc-Cetina , Laura Alvarez-Gonzalez , Anabel Martin-Gonzalez

Pedestrian detection is a crucial field of computer vision research which can be adopted in various real-world applications (e.g., self-driving systems). However, despite noticeable evolution of pedestrian detection, pedestrian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Sungjune Park , Hyunjun Kim , Yong Man Ro

We present a new method for training pedestrian detectors on an unannotated set of images. We produce a mixed reality dataset that is composed of real-world background images and synthetically generated static human-agents. Our approach is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Ernest C. Cheung , Tsan Kwong Wong , Aniket Bera , Dinesh Manocha

Real-world deployment of AI vision models is both fueled and limited by the data available for training and testing. Real datasets are sparse and uneven: long-tailed or unbalanced distributions hinder generalization, and the low number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Valeria Pais , Malena Mendilaharzu , Daniele Faccio , Luis Oala , Christoph Clausen , Bruno Sanguinetti

In this work, we present an application of domain randomization and generative adversarial networks (GAN) to train a near real-time object detector for industrial electric parts, entirely in a simulated environment. Large scale availability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Fernando Camaro Nogues , Andrew Huie , Sakyasingha Dasgupta

Pedestrian detection in intelligent transportation systems has made significant progress but faces two critical challenges: (1) insufficient fusion of complementary information between visible and infrared spectra, particularly in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Rui Zhao , Zeyu Zhang , Yi Xu , Yi Yao , Yan Huang , Wenxin Zhang , Zirui Song , Xiuying Chen , Yang Zhao

Night-time pedestrian detection remains challenging because labelled night-time data are limited and large illumination differences make daytime-only trained detectors unreliable. Latent diffusion models (LDMs) provide a powerful basis for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Franky George , Muhammad Khalid , Adil Khan

Remote sensing change detection between bi-temporal images receives growing concentration from researchers. However, comparing two bi-temporal images for detecting changes is challenging, as they demonstrate different appearances. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Luyi Qiu , Xiaofeng Zhang , ChaoChen Gu , and ShanYing Zhu

This work tackles the face recognition task on images captured using thermal camera sensors which can operate in the non-light environment. While it can greatly increase the scope and benefits of the current security surveillance systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Teng Zhang , Arnold Wiliem , Siqi Yang , Brian C. Lovell