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Autonomous tracking of flying aerial objects has important civilian and defense applications, ranging from search and rescue to counter-unmanned aerial systems (counter-UAS). Ground based tracking requires setting up infrastructure, could…

Many applications utilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) require the use of computer vision algorithms to analyze the information captured from their on-board camera. Recent advances in deep learning have made it possible to use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 George Plastiras , Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides

Object detection from images captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is becoming increasingly useful. Despite the great success of the generic object detection methods trained on ground-to-ground images, a huge performance drop is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zhenyu Wu , Karthik Suresh , Priya Narayanan , Hongyu Xu , Heesung Kwon , Zhangyang Wang

Wide field small aperture telescopes are widely used for optical transient observations. Detection and classification of astronomical targets in observed images are the most important and basic step. In this paper, we propose an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Peng Jia , Qiang Liu , Yongyang Sun

Traditional object detection models are typically trained on a fixed set of classes, limiting their flexibility and making it costly to incorporate new categories. Open-vocabulary object detection addresses this limitation by enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jyoti Kini , Rohit Gupta , Mubarak Shah

Current neural networks-based object detection approaches processing LiDAR point clouds are generally trained from one kind of LiDAR sensors. However, their performances decrease when they are tested with data coming from a different LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Ruddy Théodose , Dieumet Denis , Thierry Chateau , Vincent Frémont , Paul Checchin

This paper takes an important step in bridging the performance gap between DETR and R-CNN for graphical object detection. Existing graphical object detection approaches have enjoyed recent enhancements in CNN-based object detection methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Tahira Shehzadi , Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Didier Stricker , Marcus Liwicki , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Thanks to the success of object detection technology, we can retrieve objects of the specified classes even from huge image collections. However, the current state-of-the-art object detectors (such as Faster R-CNN) can only handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Ryota Hinami , Shin'ichi Satoh

Visual context is important in object recognition and it is still an open problem in computer vision. Along with the advent of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN), using contextual information with such systems starts to receive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Alina Marcu , Marius Leordeanu

Analyzing and detecting cannabis seed variants is crucial for the agriculture industry. It enables precision breeding, allowing cultivators to selectively enhance desirable traits. Accurate identification of seed variants also ensures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Toqi Tahamid Sarker , Taminul Islam , Khaled R Ahmed

Object detection is a fundamental visual recognition problem in computer vision and has been widely studied in the past decades. Visual object detection aims to find objects of certain target classes with precise localization in a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Xiongwei Wu , Doyen Sahoo , Steven C. H. Hoi

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are crucial in Search and Rescue (SAR) missions due to their ability to monitor vast maritime areas. However, small objects often remain difficult to detect from high altitudes due to low object-to-background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sakib Ahmed , Oscar Pizarro

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery presents significant challenges. Issues such as densely packed small objects, scale variations, and occlusion are commonplace. This paper introduces RT-DETR++, which enhances the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yuan Shufang

In this paper, we introduce an innovative method to improve the convergence speed and accuracy of object detection neural networks. Our approach, CONVERGE-FAST-AUXNET, is based on employing multiple, dependent loss metrics and weighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Benjamin Schnieders , Karl Tuyls

Object detection is an important and challenging problem in computer vision. Although the past decade has witnessed major advances in object detection in natural scenes, such successes have been slow to aerial imagery, not only because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Gui-Song Xia , Xiang Bai , Jian Ding , Zhen Zhu , Serge Belongie , Jiebo Luo , Mihai Datcu , Marcello Pelillo , Liangpei Zhang

We propose an approach to detect flying objects such as UAVs and aircrafts when they occupy a small portion of the field of view, possibly moving against complex backgrounds, and are filmed by a camera that itself moves. Solving such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Artem Rozantsev , Vincent Lepetit , Pascal Fua

Airplane detection from satellite imagery is a challenging task due to the complex backgrounds in the images and differences in data acquisition conditions caused by the sensor geometry and atmospheric effects. Deep learning methods provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Tolga Bakirman , Elif Sertel

Monitoring of reforestation is currently being considerably streamlined through the use of drones and image recognition algorithms, which have already proven to be effective on colour imagery. In addition to colour imagery, elevation data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jason Jooste , Michael Fromm , Matthias Schubert

Recently, progress has been made in the supervised training of Convolutional Object Detectors (e.g. Faster R-CNN) for threat recognition in carry-on luggage using X-ray images. This is part of the Transportation Security Administration's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 John B. Sigman , Gregory P. Spell , Kevin J Liang , Lawrence Carin

This paper addresses the problem of automated vehicle tracking and recognition from aerial image sequences. Motivated by its successes in the existing literature focus on the use of linear appearance subspaces to describe multi-view object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Ognjen Arandjelovic