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Despite notable advancements in the field of computer vision, the precise detection of tiny objects continues to pose a significant challenge, largely owing to the minuscule pixel representation allocated to these objects in imagery data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Hou-I Liu , Yu-Wen Tseng , Kai-Cheng Chang , Pin-Jyun Wang , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

The visual feature pyramid has proven its effectiveness and efficiency in target detection tasks. Yet, current methodologies tend to overly emphasize inter-layer feature interaction, neglecting the crucial aspect of intra-layer feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Weilin Xiao , Ming Xu , Yonggui Lin

Remote sensor image object detection is an important technology for Earth observation, and is used in various tasks such as forest fire monitoring and ocean monitoring. Image object detection technology, despite the significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Gu Lingyun , Eugene Popov , Dong Ge

With the increasing demand for search and rescue, it is highly demanded to detect objects of interest in large-scale images captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which is quite challenging due to extremely small scales of objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Mingbo Hong , Shuiwang Li , Yuchao Yang , Feiyu Zhu , Qijun Zhao , Li Lu

FPN-based detectors have made significant progress in general object detection, e.g., MS COCO and PASCAL VOC. However, these detectors fail in certain application scenarios, e.g., tiny object detection. In this paper, we argue that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yuqi Gong , Xuehui Yu , Yao Ding , Xiaoke Peng , Jian Zhao , Zhenjun Han

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images remains a highly challenging task, primarily caused by the complexity of background noise and the imbalance of target scales. Traditional methods easily struggle to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Wenfeng Zhang , Jun Ni , Yue Meng , Xiaodong Pei , Wei Hu , Qibing Qin , Lei Huang

Small object detection is challenging because small objects do not contain detailed information and may even disappear in the deep network. Usually, feeding high-resolution images into a network can alleviate this issue. However, simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Ziming Liu , Guangyu Gao , Lin Sun , Zhiyuan Fang

As recent advances in AI are causing the decline of conventional diagnostic methods, the realization of end-to-end diagnosis is fast approaching. Ultrasound image segmentation is an important step in the diagnostic process. An accurate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yuhan Song , Armagan Elibol , Nak Young Chong

CNN-based object detection methods have achieved significant progress in recent years. The classic structures of CNNs produce pyramid-like feature maps due to the pooling or other re-scale operations. The feature maps in different levels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Li Pengfei , Wei Wei , Yan Yu , Zhu Rong , Zhou Liguo

Multi-head detectors typically employ a features-fused-pyramid-neck for multi-scale detection and are widely adopted in the industry. However, this approach faces feature misalignment when representations from different hierarchical levels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hulin Li

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) seek to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) with deep learning. Mainstream approaches that deploy fully-connected multi-layer deep learning architectures require prolonged training to achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shaghayegh Fazliani , Zachary Frangella , Madeleine Udell

Learning multi-scale representations is the common strategy to tackle object scale variation in dense prediction tasks. Although existing feature pyramid networks have greatly advanced visual recognition, inherent design defects inhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Meng'en Qin , Yu Song , Quanling Zhao , Xiaodong Yang , Yingtao Che , Xiaohui Yang

State-of-the-art object detectors usually learn multi-scale representations to get better results by employing feature pyramids. However, the current designs for feature pyramids are still inefficient to integrate the semantic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Tao Kong , Fuchun Sun , Wenbing Huang , Huaping Liu

Ultrasound (US) image segmentation is an active research area that requires real-time and highly accurate analysis in many scenarios. The detect-to-segment (DTS) frameworks have been recently proposed to balance accuracy and efficiency.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Chaoyu Chen , Xin Yang , Rusi Chen , Junxuan Yu , Liwei Du , Jian Wang , Xindi Hu , Yan Cao , Yingying Liu , Dong Ni

While object detection is a common problem in computer vision, it is even more challenging when dealing with aerial satellite images. The variety in object scales and orientations can make them difficult to identify. In addition, there can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Ahmed Elhagry , Mohamed Saeed

Ship detection has been playing a significant role in the field of remote sensing for a long time but it is still full of challenges. The main limitations of traditional ship detection methods usually lie in the complexity of application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Xue Yang , Hao Sun , Kun Fu , Jirui Yang , Xian Sun , Menglong Yan , Zhi Guo

A novel Face Pyramid Vision Transformer (FPVT) is proposed to learn a discriminative multi-scale facial representations for face recognition and verification. In FPVT, Face Spatial Reduction Attention (FSRA) and Dimensionality Reduction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Khawar Islam , Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Arif Mahmood

Multi-scale features are essential for dense prediction tasks, such as object detection, instance segmentation, and semantic segmentation. The prevailing methods usually utilize a classification backbone to extract multi-scale features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Gang Zhang , Ziyi Li , Chufeng Tang , Jianmin Li , Xiaolin Hu

Object detection is a challenging task in remote sensing because objects only occupy a few pixels in the images, and the models are required to simultaneously learn object locations and detection. Even though the established approaches well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Jocelyn Chanussot , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Huiyu Zhou , Jie Yang

Feature interactions across space and scales underpin modern visual recognition systems because they introduce beneficial visual contexts. Conventionally, spatial contexts are passively hidden in the CNN's increasing receptive fields or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Dong Zhang , Hanwang Zhang , Jinhui Tang , Meng Wang , Xiansheng Hua , Qianru Sun