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Detection of small-sized targets in aerial views is a challenging task due to the smallness of vehicle size, complex background, and monotonic object appearances. In this letter, we propose a one-stage vehicle detection network (AVDNet) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Murari Mandal , Manal Shah , Prashant Meena , Sanhita Devi , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

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

3D object detection is essential in autonomous driving, providing vital information about moving objects and obstacles. Detecting objects in distant regions with only a few LiDAR points is still a challenge, and numerous strategies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Qinghao Meng , Chenming Wu , Liangjun Zhang , Jianbing Shen

Object detection is a fundamental task in computer vision and has many applications in image processing. This paper proposes a new approach for object detection by applying scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) in an automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-29 Reza Oji , Farshad Tajeripour

Infrared small object detection (ISOS) aims to segment small objects only covered with several pixels from clutter background in infrared images. It's of great challenge due to: 1) small objects lack of sufficient intensity, shape and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Chenyi Wang , Huan Wang , Peiwen Pan

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

Small object detection remains a significant challenge due to feature degradation from downsampling, mutual occlusion in dense clusters, and complex background interference. To address these issues, this paper proposes FSDETR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jianchao Huang , Fengming Zhang , Haibo Zhu , Tao Yan

Object detection in videos is an important task in computer vision for various applications such as object tracking, video summarization and video search. Although great progress has been made in improving the accuracy of object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Athindran Ramesh Kumar , Balaraman Ravindran , Anand Raghunathan

Detecting objects from UAV-captured images is challenging due to the small object size. In this work, a simple and efficient adaptive zoom-in framework is explored for object detection on UAV images. The main motivation is that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Tao Wang , Chenyu Lin , Chenwei Tang , Jizhe Zhou , Deng Xiong , Jianan Li , Jian Zhao , Jiancheng Lv

The vast number of existing IP cameras in current road networks is an opportunity to take advantage of the captured data and analyze the video and detect any significant events. For this purpose, it is necessary to detect moving vehicles, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Iván García , Rafael Marcos Luque , Ezequiel López

Detection of small objects and objects far away in the scene is a major challenge in surveillance applications. Such objects are represented by small number of pixels in the image and lack sufficient details, making them difficult to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Fatih Cagatay Akyon , Sinan Onur Altinuc , Alptekin Temizel

The goal of this paper is to perform object detection in satellite imagery with only a few examples, thus enabling users to specify any object class with minimal annotation. To this end, we explore recent methods and ideas from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Xavier Bou , Gabriele Facciolo , Rafael Grompone von Gioi , Jean-Michel Morel , Thibaud Ehret

Unsupervised object discovery aims to localize objects in images, while removing the dependence on annotations required by most deep learning-based methods. To address this problem, we propose a fully unsupervised, bottom-up approach, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Sandra Kara , Hejer Ammar , Florian Chabot , Quoc-Cuong Pham

Detecting small drones, often indistinguishable from birds, is crucial for modern surveillance. This work introduces a drone detection methodology built upon the medium-sized YOLOv11 object detection model. To enhance its performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rayson Laroca , Marcelo dos Santos , David Menotti

We introduce a generic framework that reduces the computational cost of object detection while retaining accuracy for scenarios where objects with varied sizes appear in high resolution images. Detection progresses in a coarse-to-fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Mingfei Gao , Ruichi Yu , Ang Li , Vlad I. Morariu , Larry S. Davis

We consider detecting objects in an image by iteratively selecting from a set of arbitrarily shaped candidate regions. Our generic approach, which we term visual chunking, reasons about the locations of multiple object instances in an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Nicholas Rhinehart , Jiaji Zhou , Martial Hebert , J. Andrew Bagnell

Object detection is a fundamental problem in image understanding. One popular solution is the R-CNN framework and its fast versions. They decompose the object detection problem into two cascaded easier tasks: 1) generating object proposals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Bin Yang , Junjie Yan , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) has been widely used in autonomous vehicles for perception and localization. However, the cost of a high-resolution LiDAR is still prohibitively expensive, while its low-resolution counterpart is much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Lin Bai , Yiming Zhao , Xinming Huang

A novel object detection method is presented that handles freely rotated objects of arbitrary sizes, including tiny objects as small as $2\times 2$ pixels. Such tiny objects appear frequently in remotely sensed images, and present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Mohsen Zand , Ali Etemad , Michael Greenspan

As a specific semantic segmentation task, aerial imagery segmentation has been widely employed in high spatial resolution (HSR) remote sensing images understanding. Besides common issues (e.g. large scale variation) faced by general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Lin Huang , Qiyuan Dong , Lijun Wu , Jia Zhang , Jiang Bian , Tie-Yan Liu