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Object detection is an important part in the field of computer vision, and the effect of object detection is directly determined by the regression accuracy of the prediction box. As the key to model training, IoU (Intersection over Union)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Xiangjie Luo , Zhihao Cai , Bo Shao , Yingxun Wang

Monocular 3D object detection is a challenging task because depth information is difficult to obtain from 2D images. A subset of viewpoint-agnostic monocular 3D detection methods also do not explicitly leverage scene homography or geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Xinxuan Lu , Derek Gloudemans , Shepard Xia , Daniel B. Work

Confluence is a novel non-Intersection over Union (IoU) alternative to Non-Maxima Suppression (NMS) in bounding box post-processing in object detection. It overcomes the inherent limitations of IoU-based NMS variants to provide a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Andrew Shepley , Greg Falzon , Paul Kwan

In existing works that learn representation for object detection, the relationship between a candidate window and the ground truth bounding box of an object is simplified by thresholding their overlap. This paper shows information loss in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Xingyu Zeng , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang

In object detection, bounding box regression (BBR) is a crucial step that determines the object localization performance. However, we find that most previous loss functions for BBR have two main drawbacks: (i) Both $\ell_n$-norm and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yi-Fan Zhang , Weiqiang Ren , Zhang Zhang , Zhen Jia , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan

This paper presents a generalizable RGB-based approach for object pose estimation, specifically designed to address challenges in sparse-view settings. While existing methods can estimate the poses of unseen objects, their generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuanhong Yu , Xingyi He , Chen Zhao , Junhao Yu , Jiaqi Yang , Ruizhen Hu , Yujun Shen , Xing Zhu , Xiaowei Zhou , Sida Peng

Stochastic inference on Lie groups plays a key role in state estimation problems such as; inertial navigation, visual inertial odometry, pose estimation in virtual reality, etc. A key problem is fusing independent concentrated Gaussian…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Yixiao Ge , Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony

We introduce a new challenge for computer and robotic vision, the first ACRV Robotic Vision Challenge, Probabilistic Object Detection. Probabilistic object detection is a new variation on traditional object detection tasks, requiring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-09 John Skinner , David Hall , Haoyang Zhang , Feras Dayoub , Niko Sünderhauf

In this paper, we propose a object detection method expressed as rotated bounding box to solve grasping challenge in the scenes where rigid objects and soft objects are mixed together. Compared with traditional detection methods, this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Xiaoman Wang , Xin Jiang , Jie Zhao , Shengfan Wang , Yunhui Liu

Lesions characterized by computed tomography (CT) scans, are arguably often elliptical objects. However, current lesion detection systems are predominantly adopted from the popular Region Proposal Networks (RPNs) that only propose bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Yi Li

Current work in lexical distributed representations maps each word to a point vector in low-dimensional space. Mapping instead to a density provides many interesting advantages, including better capturing uncertainty about a representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Luke Vilnis , Andrew McCallum

The superior performance of object detectors is often established under the condition that the test samples are in the same distribution as the training data. However, in many practical applications, out-of-distribution (OOD) instances are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Tianhao Zhang , Shenglin Wang , Nidhal Bouaynaya , Radu Calinescu , Lyudmila Mihaylova

Weakly supervised object detection aims at learning precise object detectors, given image category labels. In recent prevailing works, this problem is generally formulated as a multiple instance learning module guided by an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Xiaoyan Li , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Bounding box regression is an important component in object detection. Recent work achieves promising performance by optimizing the Intersection over Union~(IoU). However, IoU-based loss has the gradient vanish problem in the case of low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Tu Zheng , Shuai Zhao , Yang Liu , Zili Liu , Deng Cai

Arbitrary-oriented objects exist widely in natural scenes, and thus the oriented object detection has received extensive attention in recent years. The mainstream rotation detectors use oriented bounding boxes (OBB) or quadrilateral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Qi Ming , Lingjuan Miao , Zhiqiang Zhou , Xue Yang , Yunpeng Dong

Object detection has recently experienced substantial progress. Yet, the widely adopted horizontal bounding box representation is not appropriate for ubiquitous oriented objects such as objects in aerial images and scene texts. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Yongchao Xu , Mingtao Fu , Qimeng Wang , Yukang Wang , Kai Chen , Gui-Song Xia , Xiang Bai

A novel object detection method is presented that handles freely rotated objects of arbitrary sizes, including tiny objects as small as $2\times 2$ pixels. Such tiny objects appear frequently in remotely sensed images, and present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Mohsen Zand , Ali Etemad , Michael Greenspan

For most of the anchor-based detectors, Intersection over Union(IoU) is widely utilized to assign targets for the anchors during training. However, IoU pays insufficient attention to the closeness of the anchor's center to the truth box's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Shengkai Wu , Jinrong Yang , Hangcheng Yu , Lijun Gou , Xiaoping Li

Bounding box (bbox) regression is a fundamental task in computer vision. So far, the most commonly used loss functions for bbox regression are the Intersection over Union (IoU) loss and its variants. In this paper, we generalize existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jiabo He , Sarah Erfani , Xingjun Ma , James Bailey , Ying Chi , Xian-Sheng Hua

Benefiting from the great success of deep learning in computer vision, CNN-based object detection methods have drawn significant attentions. Various frameworks have been proposed which show awesome and robust performance for a large range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Yongliang Chen