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Recently, scene text detection has been a challenging task. Texts with arbitrary shape or large aspect ratio are usually hard to detect. Previous segmentation-based methods can describe curve text more accurately but suffer from over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Qi Zhao , Yufei Wang , Shuchang Lyu , Lijiang Chen

Multispectral object detection aims to leverage complementary information from visible (RGB) and infrared (IR) modalities to enable robust performance under diverse environmental conditions. Our key insight, derived from wavelet analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Seongmin Hwang , Daeyoung Han , Moongu Jeon

Soiling detection for automotive cameras is a crucial part of advanced driver assistance systems to make them more robust to external conditions like weather, dust, etc. In this paper, we regard the soiling detection as a semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Filip Beránek , Václav Diviš , Ivan Gruber

3D vehicle detection based on multi-modal fusion is an important task of many applications such as autonomous driving. Although significant progress has been made, we still observe two aspects that need to be further improvement: First, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Zehan Zhang , Ming Zhang , Zhidong Liang , Xian Zhao , Ming Yang , Wenming Tan , ShiLiang Pu

Radars, due to their robustness to adverse weather conditions and ability to measure object motions, have served in autonomous driving and intelligent agents for years. However, Radar-based perception suffers from its unintuitive sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Liu Liu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Zhenhua Du , Li Liu , Xinyu Zhang , Kai Huo , Weidong Jiang

Robust road detection is a key challenge in safe autonomous driving. Recently, with the rapid development of 3D sensors, more and more researchers are trying to fuse information across different sensors to improve the performance of road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Huafeng Liu , Xiaofeng Han , Xiangrui Li , Yazhou Yao , Pu Huang , Zhenming Tang

In this paper, we propose a novel bidirectional multiscale feature aggregation (BMFA) network with attentional fusion modules for text-independent speaker verification. The feature maps from different stages of the backbone network are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Jiajun Qi , Wu Guo , Bin Gu

Existing multi-focus image fusion (MFIF) methods often fail to preserve the uncertain transition region and detect small focus areas within large defocused regions accurately. To address this issue, this study proposes a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Xilai Li , Xiaosong Li , Haishu Tan , Jinyang Li

Aiming at highly accurate object detection for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), this paper presents a Deep Neural Network based 3D object detection model that leverages a three-stage feature extractor by developing a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Yiming Hou , Mahdi Rezaei , Richard Romano

Cross-modality fusing complementary information from different modalities effectively improves object detection performance, making it more useful and robust for a wider range of applications. Existing fusion strategies combine different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Wenhao Dong , Haodong Zhu , Shaohui Lin , Xiaoyan Luo , Yunhang Shen , Xuhui Liu , Juan Zhang , Guodong Guo , Baochang Zhang

Semantic segmentation has made striking progress due to the success of deep convolutional neural networks. Considering the demands of autonomous driving, real-time semantic segmentation has become a research hotspot these years. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Lei Sun , Kailun Yang , Xinxin Hu , Weijian Hu , Kaiwei Wang

This paper presents a modular lightweight network model for road objects detection, such as car, pedestrian and cyclist, especially when they are far away from the camera and their sizes are small. Great advances have been made for the deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Sen Cao , Yazhou Liu , Pongsak Lasang , Shengmei Shen

Road potholes pose a serious threat to driving safety and comfort, making their detection and assessment a critical task in fields such as autonomous driving. When driving vehicles, the operators usually avoid large potholes and approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Dehao Wang , Haohang Zhu , Yiwen Xu , Kaiqi Liu

Deep learning algorithms have achieved remarkable results in medical image segmentation in recent years. These networks are unable to handle with image boundaries and details with enormous parameters, resulting in poor segmentation results.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-24 Weihu Song

A novel multi-focus image fusion algorithm performed in spatial domain based on similarity characteristics is proposed incorporating with region segmentation. In this paper, a new similarity measure is developed based on the structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ya-Qiong Zhang , Xiao-Jun Wu , Hui Li

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, which can be considered as a per-pixel classification problem. Recently, although fully convolutional neural network (FCN) based approaches have made remarkable progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Chen-Wei Xie , Hong-Yu Zhou , Jianxin Wu

Transferring existing image-based detectors to the video is non-trivial since the quality of frames is always deteriorated by part occlusion, rare pose, and motion blur. Previous approaches exploit to propagate and aggregate features across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Zhengkai Jiang , Yu Liu , Ceyuan Yang , Jihao Liu , Peng Gao , Qian Zhang , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

In this paper, we focus on exploring the fusion of images and point clouds for 3D object detection in view of the complementary nature of the two modalities, i.e., images possess more semantic information while point clouds specialize in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Ming Zhu , Chao Ma , Pan Ji , Xiaokang Yang

This paper focuses on the key issue in autonomous driving: small target recognition in dynamic perception. Existing algorithms suffer from poor detection performance due to missing small target information, scale imbalance, and occlusion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Songhan Wu

Feature-fusion networks with duplex encoders have proven to be an effective technique to solve the freespace detection problem. However, despite the compelling results achieved by previous research efforts, the exploration of adequate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Yi Feng , Yu Ma , Qijun Chen , Ioannis Pitas , Rui Fan