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Drone detection is a challenging object detection task where visibility conditions and quality of the images may be unfavorable, and detections might become difficult due to complex backgrounds, small visible objects, and hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ogulcan Eryuksel , Kamil Anil Ozfuttu , Fatih Cagatay Akyon , Kadir Sahin , Efe Buyukborekci , Devrim Cavusoglu , Sinan Altinuc

Single visual object tracking from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) poses fundamental challenges such as object occlusion, small-scale objects, background clutter, and abrupt camera motion. To tackle these difficulties, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Stéphane Vujasinović , Stefan Becker , Timo Breuer , Sebastian Bullinger , Norbert Scherer-Negenborn , Michael Arens

Moving objects are frequently seen in daily life and usually appear blurred in images due to their motion. While general object retrieval is a widely explored area in computer vision, it primarily focuses on sharp and static objects, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Rong Zou , Marc Pollefeys , Denys Rozumnyi

Tiny object detection is one of the key challenges in the field of object detection. The performance of most generic detectors dramatically decreases in tiny object detection tasks. The main challenge lies in extracting effective features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Bing Cao , Haiyu Yao , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu

Video object detection is a fundamental problem in computer vision and has a wide spectrum of applications. Based on deep networks, video object detection is actively studied for pushing the limits of detection speed and accuracy. To reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Xinggang Wang , Zhaojin Huang , Bencheng Liao , Lichao Huang , Yongchao Gong , Chang Huang

Benefiting from its ability to efficiently learn how an object is changing, correlation filters have recently demonstrated excellent performance for rapidly tracking objects. Designing effective features and handling model drifts are two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Xizhe Xue , Ying Li , Qiang Shen

Effective tracking of surrounding traffic participants allows for an accurate state estimation as a necessary ingredient for prediction of future behavior and therefore adequate planning of the ego vehicle trajectory. One approach for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Patrick Palmer , Martin Krüger , Richard Altendorfer , Torsten Bertram

Scattering can rapidly degrade our ability to form an optical image, to the point where only speckle-like patterns can be measured. Truly non-invasive imaging through a strongly scattering obstacle is difficult, and usually reliant on a…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-26 Y. Jauregui-Sánchez , Harry Penketh , Jacopo Bertolotti

This paper introduces an online model for object detection in videos designed to run in real-time on low-powered mobile and embedded devices. Our approach combines fast single-image object detection with convolutional long short term memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Mason Liu , Menglong Zhu

Object detection in aerial images is a fundamental research topic in the geoscience and remote sensing domain. However, the advanced approaches on this topic mainly focus on designing the elaborate backbones or head networks but ignore neck…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yuchen Shen , Dong Zhang , Zhihao Song , Xuesong Jiang , Qiaolin Ye

Machine learning techniques are often used in computer vision due to their ability to leverage large amounts of training data to improve performance. Unfortunately, most generic object trackers are still trained from scratch online and do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-17 David Held , Sebastian Thrun , Silvio Savarese

The Correlation Filter is an algorithm that trains a linear template to discriminate between images and their translations. It is well suited to object tracking because its formulation in the Fourier domain provides a fast solution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Jack Valmadre , Luca Bertinetto , João F. Henriques , Andrea Vedaldi , Philip H. S. Torr

Tracking-Any-Point (TAP) models aim to track any point through a video which is a crucial task in AR/XR and robotics applications. The recently introduced TAPNext approach proposes an end-to-end, recurrent transformer architecture to track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Sebastian Jung , Artem Zholus , Martin Sundermeyer , Carl Doersch , Ross Goroshin , David Joseph Tan , Sarath Chandar , Rudolph Triebel , Federico Tombari

The problem of multi-object tracking is a fundamental computer vision research focus, widely used in public safety, transport, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and other regions involving artificial intelligence. Because of the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Kai Ren , Chuanping Hu

We propose a novel video object segmentation algorithm based on pixel-level matching using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Our network aims to distinguish the target area from the background on the basis of the pixel-level similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Jae Shin Yoon , Francois Rameau , Junsik Kim , Seokju Lee , Seunghak Shin , In So Kweon

The problem of video object segmentation can become extremely challenging when multiple instances co-exist. While each instance may exhibit large scale and pose variations, the problem is compounded when instances occlude each other causing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Xiaoxiao Li , Chen Change Loy

Aiming at the specific characteristics of flying bird objects in surveillance video, such as the typically non-obvious features in single-frame images, small size in most instances, and asymmetric shapes, this paper proposes a Flying Bird…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ziwei Sun , Zexi Hua , Hengchao Li , Yan Li

Object detection has been a building block in computer vision. Though considerable progress has been made, there still exist challenges for objects with small size, arbitrary direction, and dense distribution. Apart from natural images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Xue Yang , Jirui Yang , Junchi Yan , Yue Zhang , Tengfei Zhang , Zhi Guo , Sun Xian , Kun Fu

In this paper, we address the problem of detecting small, dense, and overlapping objects, a major challenge in computer vision. Our focus is on reviewing proposed methods based on deep learning supervised approaches. We provide a detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Oussama Messai , Abbass Zein-Eddine , Abdelouahid Bentamou , Mickael Picq , Nicolas Duquesne , Stéphane Puydarrieux , Yann Gavet

Many applications utilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) require the use of computer vision algorithms to analyze the information captured from their on-board camera. Recent advances in deep learning have made it possible to use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 George Plastiras , Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides