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Infrared small target super-resolution (SR) aims to recover reliable and detailed high-resolution image with high-contrast targets from its low-resolution counterparts. Since the infrared small target lacks color and fine structure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Xinyi Ying , Yingqian Wang , Longguang Wang , Weidong Sheng , Li Liu , Zaiping Lin , Shilin Zhou

The perception of transparent objects is one of the well-known challenges in computer vision. Conventional depth sensors have difficulty in sensing the depth of transparent objects due to refraction and reflection of light. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Xianghui Fan , Zhaoyu Chen , Mengyang Pan , Anping Deng , Hang Yang

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is critical in both civilian and military applications. However, the limited texture and structural information in infrared images makes accurate detection particularly challenging. Although recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Xingye Cui , Junhai Luo , Jiakun Deng , Kexuan Li , Xiangyu Qiu , Zhenming Peng

Object detection is the task of detecting objects in an image. In this task, the detection of small objects is particularly difficult. Other than the small size, it is also accompanied by difficulties due to blur, occlusion, and so on.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Da Huo , Marc A. Kastner , Tingwei Liu , Yasutomo Kawanishi , Takatsugu Hirayama , Takahiro Komamizu , Ichiro Ide

Recently, infrared small target detection (ISTD) has made significant progress, thanks to the development of basic models. Specifically, the models combining CNNs with transformers can successfully extract both local and global features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Tianxiang Chen , Zi Ye , Zhentao Tan , Tao Gong , Yue Wu , Qi Chu , Bin Liu , Nenghai Yu , Jieping Ye

Transformers trained with self-supervised learning using self-distillation loss (DINO) have been shown to produce attention maps that highlight salient foreground objects. In this paper, we demonstrate a graph-based approach that uses the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Yangtao Wang , Xi Shen , Shell Hu , Yuan Yuan , James Crowley , Dominique Vaufreydaz

Single Object Tracking in LiDAR point cloud is one of the most essential parts of environmental perception, in which small objects are inevitable in real-world scenarios and will bring a significant barrier to the accurate location.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Shengjing Tian , Yinan Han , Xiuping Liu , Xiantong Zhao

Few-shot object detection is a challenging but realistic scenario, where only a few annotated training images are available for training detectors. A popular approach to handle this problem is transfer learning, i.e., fine-tuning a detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Ze Yang , Yali Wang , Xianyu Chen , Jianzhuang Liu , Yu Qiao

Visual change detection, aiming at segmentation of video frames into foreground and background regions, is one of the elementary tasks in computer vision and video analytics. The applications of change detection include anomaly detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Murari Mandal , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

Transformers have rapidly gained popularity in computer vision, especially in the field of object recognition and detection. Upon examining the outcomes of state-of-the-art object detection methods, we noticed that transformers consistently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Aref Miri Rekavandi , Shima Rashidi , Farid Boussaid , Stephen Hoefs , Emre Akbas , Mohammed bennamoun

There are many limitations applying object detection algorithm on various environments. Especially detecting small objects is still challenging because they have low resolution and limited information. We propose an object detection method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Jeong-Seon Lim , Marcella Astrid , Hyun-Jin Yoon , Seung-Ik Lee

Images acquired by computer vision systems under low light conditions have multiple characteristics like high noise, lousy illumination, reflectance, and bad contrast, which make object detection tasks difficult. Much work has been done to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Winston Chen , Tejas Shah

Recently, infrared small target detection with single-point supervision has attracted extensive attention. However, the detection accuracy of existing methods has difficulty meeting actual needs. Therefore, we propose an innovative refined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Jinmiao Zhao , Zelin Shi , Chuang Yu , Yunpeng Liu

In this paper, we point out that the essential differences between CNN-based and Transformer-based detectors, which cause the worse performance of small objects in Transformer-based methods, are the gap between local information and global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Dong Chen , Duoqian Miao , Xuerong Zhao

Transformer framework has been showing superior performances in visual object tracking for its great strength in information aggregation across the template and search image with the well-known attention mechanism. Most recent advances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Zikai Song , Run Luo , Junqing Yu , Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen , Wei Yang

Small area change detection from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a highly challenging task. In this paper, a robust unsupervised approach is proposed for small area change detection from multi-temporal SAR images using deep learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xinzheng Zhang , Hang Su , Ce Zhang , Xiaowei Gu , Xiaoheng Tan , Peter M. Atkinson

Detecting objects in low-light scenarios presents a persistent challenge, as detectors trained on well-lit data exhibit significant performance degradation on low-light data due to low visibility. Previous methods mitigate this issue by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhipeng Du , Miaojing Shi , Jiankang Deng

The prior self-supervised learning researches mainly select image-level instance discrimination as pretext task. It achieves a fantastic classification performance that is comparable to supervised learning methods. However, with degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Bing Zhao , Jun Li , Hong Zhu

Deep imitation learning is promising for solving dexterous manipulation tasks because it does not require an environment model and pre-programmed robot behavior. However, its application to dual-arm manipulation tasks remains challenging.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Heecheol Kim , Yoshiyuki Ohmura , Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Distributed radar sensors enable robust human activity recognition. However, scaling the number of coordinated nodes introduces challenges in feature extraction from large datasets, and transparent data fusion. We propose an end-to-end…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Mina Shahbazifar , Zolfa Zeinalpour-Yazdi , Matthias Hollick , Arash Asadi , Vahid Jamali