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For visually impaired people, it is highly difficult to make independent movement and safely move in both indoors and outdoors environment. Furthermore, these physically and visually challenges prevent them from in day-today live…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Heba Najm , Khirallah Elferjani , Alhaam Alariyibi

In recent years, several real-time or near real-time object detectors have been developed. However these object detectors are typically designed for first-person view images where the subject is large in the image and do not directly apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Jennifer Carlet , Bernard Abayowa

The state-of-the-art deep learning-based object recognition YOLO algorithm and object tracking DeepSORT algorithm are combined to analyze digital images from fluid dynamic simulations of multi-core emulsions and soft flowing crystals and to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-26 Mihir Durve , Fabio Bonaccorso , Andrea Montessori , Marco Lauricella , Adriano Tiribocchi , Sauro Succi

Wearable technologies are enabling plenty of new applications of computer vision, from life logging to health assistance. Many of them are required to recognize the elements of interest in the scene captured by the camera. This work studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Alberto Sabater , Luis Montesano , Ana C. Murillo

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the YOLOv9 object detection model, focusing on its architectural innovations, training methodologies, and performance improvements over its predecessors. Key advancements, such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Muhammad Yaseen

Aiming at the detection difficulties of infrared images such as complex background, low signal-to-noise ratio, small target size and weak brightness, a lightweight infrared small target detection algorithm ISTD-YOLO based on improved YOLOv7…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shang Zhang , Yujie Cui , Ruoyan Xiong , Huanbin Zhang

Low-light conditions and occluded scenarios impede object detection in real-world Internet of Things (IoT) applications like autonomous vehicles and security systems. While advanced machine learning models strive for accuracy, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Shubhabrata Mukherjee , Cory Beard , Zhu Li

Small target detection in UAV imagery faces significant challenges such as scale variations, dense distribution, and the dominance of small targets. Existing algorithms rely on manually designed components, and general-purpose detectors are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yuankai Chen , Kai Lin , Qihong Wu , Xinxuan Yang , Jiashuo Lai , Ruoen Chen , Haonan Shi , Minfan He , Meihua Wang

In this paper a vision-based system for detection, motion tracking and following of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with other UAV (follower) is presented. For detection of an airborne UAV we apply a convolutional neural network YOLO trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Antonella Barisic , Marko Car , Stjepan Bogdan

In the realm of aerial imaging, the ability to detect small objects is pivotal for a myriad of applications, encompassing environmental surveillance, urban design, and crisis management. Leveraging RetinaNet, this work unveils DDR-Net: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zhicheng Tang , Jinwen Tang , Yi Shang

The escalating economic losses in agriculture due to deer intrusion, estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually in the U.S., highlight the inadequacy of traditional mitigation strategies such as hunting, fencing, use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Bishal Adhikari , Jiajia Li , Eric S. Michel , Jacob Dykes , Te-Ming Paul Tseng , Mary Love Tagert , Dong Chen

While one-stage detectors like YOLOv8 offer fast training speed, they often under-perform on detecting small objects as a trade-off. This becomes even more critical when detecting tiny objects in aerial imagery due to low-resolution targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Kihyun Kim , Michalis Lazarou , Tania Stathaki

Accelerators implementing Deep Neural Networks for image-based object detection operate on large volumes of data due to fetching images and neural network parameters, especially if they need to process video streams, hence with high power…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Martí Caro , Hamid Tabani , Jaume Abella

Drones have revolutionized various domains, including agriculture. Recent advances in deep learning have propelled among other things object detection in computer vision. This study utilized YOLO, a real-time object detector, to identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Tobias Rohe , Barbara Böhm , Michael Kölle , Jonas Stein , Robert Müller , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing images poses significant challenges due to unstable image quality, small object sizes, complex backgrounds, and environmental occlusions. Small objects, in particular, occupy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xudong Wang , Yaxin Peng , Chaomin Shen

A vision-based drone-to-drone detection system is crucial for various applications like collision avoidance, countering hostile drones, and search-and-rescue operations. However, detecting drones presents unique challenges, including small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Sairam VC Rebbapragada , Pranoy Panda , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

A drone monitoring system that integrates deep-learning-based detection and tracking modules is proposed in this work. The biggest challenge in adopting deep learning methods for drone detection is the limited amount of training drone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Yueru Chen , Pranav Aggarwal , Jongmoo Choi , C. -C. Jay Kuo

In this paper, we propose a method specifically aimed at improving small bird detection for the Small Object Detection Challenge for Spotting Birds 2023. Utilizing YOLOv7 model with test-time augmentation, our approach involves increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Kosuke Shigematsu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with advanced sensors have opened up new opportunities for monitoring wind power plants, including blades, towers, and other critical components. However, reliable defect detection requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Serhii Svystun , Pavlo Radiuk , Oleksandr Melnychenko , Oleg Savenko , Anatoliy Sachenko

The YOLO (You Only Look Once) series has been a leading framework in real-time object detection, consistently improving the balance between speed and accuracy. However, integrating attention mechanisms into YOLO has been challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Rahima Khanam , Muhammad Hussain