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Visual attention has been extensively studied for learning fine-grained features in both facial expression recognition (FER) and Action Unit (AU) detection. A broad range of previous research has explored how to use attention modules to…

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In this paper, we introduce a machine learning approach to the problem of infrared small target detection filter design. For this purpose, similarly to a convolutional layer of a neural network, the normalized-cross-correlational (NCC)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 H. Seçkin Demir , Erdem Akagunduz

In recent years, various applications in computer vision have achieved substantial progress based on deep learning, which has been widely used for image fusion and shown to achieve adequate performance. However, suffering from limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Zhengwen Shen , Jun Wang , Zaiyu Pan , Yulian Li , Jiangyu Wang

Many targets are often very small in infrared images due to the long-distance imaging meachnism. UNet and its variants, as popular detection backbone networks, downsample the local features early and cause the irreversible loss of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Wuzhou Quan , Wei Zhao , Weiming Wang , Haoran Xie , Fu Lee Wang , Mingqiang Wei

In this paper, we address the scene segmentation task by capturing rich contextual dependencies based on the selfattention mechanism. Unlike previous works that capture contexts by multi-scale features fusion, we propose a Dual Attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Jun Fu , Jing Liu , Haijie Tian , Yong Li , Yongjun Bao , Zhiwei Fang , Hanqing Lu

Labeling medical images depends on professional knowledge, making it difficult to acquire large amount of annotated medical images with high quality in a short time. Thus, making good use of limited labeled samples in a small dataset to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Peng Jiang , Juan Liu , Lang Wang , Zhihui Ynag , Hongyu Dong , Jing Feng

Researchers have long tried to minimize training costs in deep learning while maintaining strong generalization across diverse datasets. Emerging research on dataset distillation aims to reduce training costs by creating a small synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ahmad Sajedi , Samir Khaki , Ehsan Amjadian , Lucy Z. Liu , Yuri A. Lawryshyn , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is highly sensitive to sensor type, observation conditions, and the intrinsic properties of the target. These factors can introduce substantial variations in the distribution of acquired infrared image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yahao Lu , Yuehui Li , Xingyuan Guo , Shuai Yuan , Yukai Shi , Liang Lin

In the field of multimedia, single image deraining is a basic pre-processing work, which can greatly improve the visual effect of subsequent high-level tasks in rainy conditions. In this paper, we propose an effective algorithm, called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Cong Wang , Yutong Wu , Zhixun Su , Junyang Chen

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is challenging because tiny, low-contrast targets are easily obscured by complex and dynamic backgrounds. Conventional multi-frame approaches typically learn motion implicitly through deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Nian Liu , Jin Gao , Shubo Lin , Yutong Kou , Sikui Zhang , Fudong Ge , Zhiqiang Pu , Liang Li , Gang Wang , Yizheng Wang , Weiming Hu

Despite the significant progress in image denoising, it is still challenging to restore fine-scale details while removing noise, especially in extremely low-light environments. Leveraging near-infrared (NIR) images to assist visible RGB…

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Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (massive MIMO) technology stands as a cornerstone in 5G and beyonds. Despite the remarkable advancements offered by massive MIMO technology, the extreme number of antennas introduces challenges during…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Do Hai Son , Vu Tung Lam , Tran Thi Thuy Quynh

Conventional deep learning based methods for object detection require a large amount of bounding box annotations for training, which is expensive to obtain such high quality annotated data. Few-shot object detection, which learns to adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Hanzhe Hu , Shuai Bai , Aoxue Li , Jinshi Cui , Liwei Wang

As an essential vision task, infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has seen significant advancements through deep learning. However, critical limitations in current evaluation protocols impede further progress. First, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu , Georges El Fakhri , Xiaofeng Liu , Shijian Lu

Infrared dim and small target detection presents a significant challenge due to dynamic multi-frame scenarios and weak target signatures in the infrared modality. Traditional low-rank plus sparse models often fail to capture dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Pei Liu , Yisi Luo , Wenzhen Wang , Xiangyong Cao

Residual network (ResNet) and densely connected network (DenseNet) have significantly improved the training efficiency and performance of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) mainly for object classification tasks. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Mina Jafari , Dorothee Auer , Susan Francis , Jonathan Garibaldi , Xin Chen

Deep learning has driven significant progress in object detection using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. Existing methods, while achieving promising results, often struggle to effectively integrate local and global information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mingxiang Cao , Weiying Xie , Jie Lei , Jiaqing Zhang , Daixun Li , Yunsong Li

Existing fixed pattern noise reduction (FPNR) methods are easily affected by the motion state of the scene and working condition of the image sensor, which leads to over smooth effects, ghosting artifacts as well as slow convergence rate.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Juntao Guan , Rui Lai , Ai Xiong , Zesheng Liu , Lin Gu

Detecting small targets in infrared images poses significant challenges in defense applications due to the presence of complex backgrounds and the small size of the targets. Traditional object detection methods often struggle to balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Alina Ciocarlan , Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle , Sidonie Lefebvre , Arnaud Woiselle

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) target detection has long been impeded by inherent speckle noise and the prevalence of diminutive, ambiguous targets. While deep neural networks have advanced SAR target detection, their intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yimian Dai , Minrui Zou , Yuxuan Li , Xiang Li , Kang Ni , Jian Yang