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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

An autonomous system's perception engine must provide an accurate understanding of the environment for it to make decisions. Deep learning based object detection networks experience degradation in the performance and robustness for small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Hemant Kumawat , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Depth completion and object detection are two crucial tasks often used for aerial 3D mapping, path planning, and collision avoidance of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Common solutions include using measurements from a LiDAR sensor;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Sara Hatami Gazani , Fardad Dadboud , Miodrag Bolic , Iraj Mantegh , Homayoun Najjaran

This paper investigates and develops methods for detecting small objects in large-scale aerial images. Current approaches for detecting small objects in aerial images often involve image cropping and modifications to detector network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mahila Moghadami , Mohammad Ali Keyvanrad , Melika Sabaghian

Collaborative visual perception methods have gained widespread attention in the autonomous driving community in recent years due to their ability to address sensor limitation problems. However, the absence of explicit depth information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Shaohong Wang , Bin Lu , Xinyu Xiao , Hanzhi Zhong , Bowen Pang , Tong Wang , Zhiyu Xiang , Hangguan Shan , Eryun Liu

Small object detection has been a challenging problem in the field of object detection. There has been some works that proposes improvements for this task, such as adding several attention blocks or changing the whole structure of feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Shiyi Tang , Shu Zhang , Yini Fang

Small object detection (SOD) is a critical yet challenging task in computer vision, with applications like spanning surveillance, autonomous systems, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Unlike larger objects, small objects contain limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Mahya Nikouei , Bita Baroutian , Shahabedin Nabavi , Fateme Taraghi , Atefe Aghaei , Ayoob Sajedi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

We propose a late-to-early recurrent feature fusion scheme for 3D object detection using temporal LiDAR point clouds. Our main motivation is fusing object-aware latent embeddings into the early stages of a 3D object detector. This feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Tong He , Pei Sun , Zhaoqi Leng , Chenxi Liu , Dragomir Anguelov , Mingxing Tan

Small objects detection is a challenging task in computer vision due to its limited resolution and information. In order to solve this problem, the majority of existing methods sacrifice speed for improvement in accuracy. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Guimei Cao , Xuemei Xie , Wenzhe Yang , Quan Liao , Guangming Shi , Jinjian Wu

Multiple object tracking (MOT) has been successfully investigated in computer vision. However, MOT for the videos captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is still challenging due to small object size, blurred object appearance, and very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Mufeng Yao , Jiaqi Wang , Jinlong Peng , Mingmin Chi , Chao Liu

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have played an increasingly crucial role in supporting disaster emergency response efforts by analyzing aerial images. While current deep-learning models focus on improving accuracy, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Lemeng Zhao , Junjie Hu , Jianchao Bi , Yanbing Bai , Erick Mas , Shunichi Koshimura

CCTV-based surveillance using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is considered a key technology for security in smart city environments. This paper creates a case where the UAVs with CCTV-cameras fly over the city area for flexible and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Won Joon Yun , Soohyun Park , Joongheon Kim , MyungJae Shin , Soyi Jung , David A. Mohaisen , Jae-Hyun Kim

Computer vision-based object detection is a key modality for advanced Detect-And-Avoid systems that allow for autonomous flight missions of UAVs. While standard object detection frameworks do not predict the actual depth of an object, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 David Silva , Nicolas Jourdan , Nils Gählert

Sensor fusion is an essential topic in many perception systems, such as autonomous driving and robotics. Transformers-based detection head and CNN-based feature encoder to extract features from raw sensor-data has emerged as one of the best…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Apoorv Singh

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) remote sensing, with its advantages of rapid information acquisition and low cost, has been widely applied in scenarios such as emergency response. However, due to the long imaging distance and complex imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kejun Ren , Xin Wu , Lianming Xu , Li Wang

This paper presents an efficient way of detecting directed objects by predicting their center coordinates and direction angle. Since the objects are of uniform size, the proposed model works without predicting the object's width and height.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Đorđe Nedeljković

The collaboration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has become a popular research topic for its practicability in multiple scenarios. The collaboration of multiple UAVs, which is also known as aerial swarm is a highly complex system, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Hao Xu , Luqi Wang , Yichen Zhang , Kejie Qiu , Shaojie Shen

This paper presents a novel approach that integrates vision foundation models with reinforcement learning to enhance object interaction capabilities in simulated environments. By combining the Segment Anything Model (SAM) and YOLOv5 with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Ahmad Farooq , Kamran Iqbal

Despite recent advancements in computer vision research, object detection in aerial images still suffers from several challenges. One primary challenge to be mitigated is the presence of multiple types of variation in aerial images, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Sungjune Park , Hyunjun Kim , Beomchan Park , Yong Man Ro

Small object detection in aerial imagery presents significant challenges in computer vision due to the minimal data inherent in small-sized objects and their propensity to be obscured by larger objects and background noise. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Tushar Verma , Jyotsna Singh , Yash Bhartari , Rishi Jarwal , Suraj Singh , Shubhkarman Singh