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FPN (Feature Pyramid Network) has become a basic component of most SoTA one stage object detectors. Many previous studies have repeatedly proved that FPN can caputre better multi-scale feature maps to more precisely describe objects if they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Yu-Ming Zhang , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Chun-Chieh Lee , Kuo-Chin Fan

Multi-scale features are of great importance in encoding objects with scale variance in object detection tasks. A common strategy for multi-scale feature extraction is adopting the classic top-down and bottom-up feature pyramid networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Guoyu Yang , Jie Lei , Zhikuan Zhu , Siyu Cheng , Zunlei Feng , Ronghua Liang

Feature matters for salient object detection. Existing methods mainly focus on designing a sophisticated structure to incorporate multi-level features and filter out cluttered features. We present Progressive Feature Polishing Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Bo Wang , Quan Chen , Min Zhou , Zhiqiang Zhang , Xiaogang Jin , Kun Gai

Cross-layer feature pyramid networks (CFPNs) have achieved notable progress in multi-scale feature fusion and boundary detail preservation for salient object detection. However, traditional CFPNs still suffer from two core limitations: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Jin Lian , Zhongyu Wan , Ming Gao , JunFeng Chen

We propose a new network architecture, the Fractal Pyramid Networks (PFNs) for pixel-wise prediction tasks as an alternative to the widely used encoder-decoder structure. In the encoder-decoder structure, the input is processed by an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Zhiqiang Deng , Huimin Yu , Yangqi Long

The introduction of Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) has significantly improved object detection performance. However, substantial challenges remain in detecting tiny objects, as their features occupy only a very small proportion of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Zican Shi , Jing Hu , Jie Ren , Hengkang Ye , Xuyang Yuan , Yan Ouyang , Jia He , Bo Ji , Junyu Guo

Feature pyramids have been proven powerful in image understanding tasks that require multi-scale features. State-of-the-art methods for multi-scale feature learning focus on performing feature interactions across space and scales using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Gangming Zhao , Weifeng Ge , Yizhou Yu

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have shown remarkable performance in image classification tasks in recent years. Generally, deep neural network architectures are stacks consisting of a large number of convolutional layers, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Dongyoon Han , Jiwhan Kim , Junmo Kim

Learned frame prediction is a current problem of interest in computer vision and video compression. Although several deep network architectures have been proposed for learned frame prediction, to the best of our knowledge, there is no work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-28 M. Akın Yılmaz , A. Murat Tekalp

Current state-of-the-art convolutional architectures for object detection are manually designed. Here we aim to learn a better architecture of feature pyramid network for object detection. We adopt Neural Architecture Search and discover a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Golnaz Ghiasi , Tsung-Yi Lin , Ruoming Pang , Quoc V. Le

Deep networks can learn to accurately recognize objects of a category by training on a large number of annotated images. However, a meta-learning challenge known as a low-shot image recognition task comes when only a few images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Mengting Chen , Xinggang Wang , Heng Luo , Yifeng Geng , Wenyu Liu

Automatic pneumonia Detection based on deep learning has increasing clinical value. Although the existing Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) and its variants have already achieved some great successes, their detection accuracies for pneumonia…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Xudong Zhang , Bo Wang , Di Yuan , Zhenghua Xu , Guizhi Xu

Remote sensing target detection aims to identify and locate critical targets within remote sensing images, finding extensive applications in agriculture and urban planning. Feature pyramid networks (FPNs) are commonly used to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Hanqian Li , Ruinan Zhang , Ye Pan , Junchi Ren , Fei Shen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved tremendous success in a number of learning tasks including image classification. Recent advanced models in CNNs, such as ResNets, mainly focus on the skip connection to avoid gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Xinglin Pan , Jing Xu , Yu Pan , liangjian Wen , WenXiang Lin , Kun Bai , Zenglin Xu

Small object detection remains an unsolved challenge because it is hard to extract information of small objects with only a few pixels. While scale-level corresponding detection in feature pyramid network alleviates this problem, we find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Chunfang Deng , Mengmeng Wang , Liang Liu , Yong Liu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have attracted increasing attention in the remote sensing community. Most CNNs only take the last fully-connected layers as features for the classification of remotely sensed images, discarding the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Qingshan Liu , Renlong Hang , Huihui Song , Fuping Zhu , Javier Plaza , Antonio Plaza

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in the area of computer vision. The disparity estimation problem tends to be addressed by DNNs which achieve much better prediction accuracy in stereo matching than traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Qiang Wang , Shaohuai Shi , Shizhen Zheng , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

Imbalanced datasets are a significant challenge in real-world scenarios. They lead to models that underperform on underrepresented classes, which is a critical issue in infrastructure inspection. This paper introduces the Enhanced Feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Rasha Alshawi , Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Mahdi Abdelguerfi , Kendall Niles , Ken Pathak , Steve Sloan

This paper presents a deep architecture for dense semantic correspondence, called pyramidal affine regression networks (PARN), that estimates locally-varying affine transformation fields across images. To deal with intra-class appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Sangryul Jeon , Seungryong Kim , Dongbo Min , Kwanghoon Sohn

Multi-head detectors typically employ a features-fused-pyramid-neck for multi-scale detection and are widely adopted in the industry. However, this approach faces feature misalignment when representations from different hierarchical levels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hulin Li