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Remote sensing images captured from aerial perspectives often exhibit significant scale variations and complex backgrounds, posing challenges for salient object detection (SOD). Existing methods typically extract multi-level features at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Bin Wan , Runmin Cong , Xiaofei Zhou , Hao Fang , Chengtao Lv , Sam Kwong

Features from multiple scales can greatly benefit the semantic edge detection task if they are well fused. However, the prevalent semantic edge detection methods apply a fixed weight fusion strategy where images with different semantics are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Yuan Hu , Yunpeng Chen , Xiang Li , Jiashi Feng

Image classification is a fundamental computer vision task and an important baseline for deep metric learning. In decades efforts have been made on enhancing image classification accuracy by using deep learning models while less attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yunfeng Zhao , Huiyu Zhou , Fei Wu , Xifeng Wu

Although deep learning has yielded impressive performance for face recognition, many studies have shown that different networks learn different feature maps: while some networks are more receptive to pose and illumination others appear to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Navaneeth Bodla , Jingxiao Zheng , Hongyu Xu , Jun-Cheng Chen , Carlos Castillo , Rama Chellappa

Planet-scale photo geolocalization involves the intricate task of estimating the geographic location depicted in an image purely based on its visual features. While deep learning models, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 David Faget , José Luis Lisani , Miguel Colom

Feature fusion, the combination of features from different layers or branches, is an omnipresent part of modern network architectures. It is often implemented via simple operations, such as summation or concatenation, but this might not be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yimian Dai , Fabian Gieseke , Stefan Oehmcke , Yiquan Wu , Kobus Barnard

Humans can build a mental map of a geographical area to find their way and recognize places. The basic task we consider is geo-localization - finding the pose (position & orientation) of a camera in a large 3D scene from a single image. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Moti Kadosh , Yael Moses , Ariel Shamir

Since it is usually difficult to capture an all-in-focus image of a 3D scene directly, various multi-focus image fusion methods are employed to generate it from several images focusing at different depths. However, the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Haoyu Ma , Juncheng Zhang , Shaojun Liu , Qingmin Liao

Cross-view geo-localization aims to determine the geographical location of a query image by matching it against a gallery of images. This task is challenging due to the significant appearance variations of objects observed from variable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 YiTong Liu , TianZhu Liu , YanFeng GU

Convolutional neural networks are the most successful models in single image super-resolution. Deeper networks, residual connections, and attention mechanisms have further improved their performance. However, these strategies often improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Parichehr Behjati , Pau Rodriguez , Armin Mehri , Isabelle Hupont , Carles Fernández Tena , Jordi Gonzalez

Many robotics applications require precise pose estimates despite operating in large and changing environments. This can be addressed by visual localization, using a pre-computed 3D model of the surroundings. The pose estimation then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Paul-Edouard Sarlin , Frédéric Debraine , Marcin Dymczyk , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena

Cross-view geo-localization plays a critical role in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) localization and navigation. However, significant challenges arise from the drastic viewpoint differences and appearance variations between images. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Hongyu Zhou , Yunzhou Zhang , Tingsong Huang , Fawei Ge , Man Qi , Xichen Zhang , Yizhong Zhang

Despite recent advances in multi-scale deep representations, their limitations are attributed to expensive parameters and weak fusion modules. Hence, we propose an efficient approach to fuse multi-scale deep representations, called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Yu Liu , Yanming Guo , Michael S. Lew

Current CNN-based algorithms for recovering the 3D pose of an object in an image assume knowledge about both the object category and its 2D localization in the image. In this paper, we relax one of these constraints and propose to solve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Siddharth Mahendran , Haider Ali , Rene Vidal

Image geolocalization is the task of identifying the location depicted in a photo based only on its visual information. This task is inherently challenging since many photos have only few, possibly ambiguous cues to their geolocation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Paul Hongsuck Seo , Tobias Weyand , Jack Sim , Bohyung Han

The remote sensing image change detection task is an essential method for large-scale monitoring. We propose HSANet, a network that uses hierarchical convolution to extract multi-scale features. It incorporates hybrid self-attention and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Chengxi Han , Xiaoyu Su , Zhiqiang Wei , Meiqi Hu , Yichu Xu

Feature fusion is a commonly used strategy in image retrieval tasks, which aggregates the matching responses of multiple visual features. Feasible sets of features can be either descriptors (SIFT, HSV) for an entire image or the same…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Zhongdao Wang , Liang Zheng , Shengjin Wang

In addition to color and textural information, geometry provides important cues for 3D scene reconstruction. However, current reconstruction methods only include geometry at the feature level thus not fully exploiting the geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Ruihong Yin , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

2D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have attracted significant attention for hyperspectral image super-resolution tasks. However, a key limitation is their reliance on local neighborhoods, which leads to a lack of global contextual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Usman Muhammad , Jorma Laaksonen

Effective feature fusion of multispectral images plays a crucial role in multi-spectral object detection. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of feature fusion using convolutional neural networks, but these methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jifeng Shen , Yifei Chen , Yue Liu , Xin Zuo , Heng Fan , Wankou Yang