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Object detection is a famous branch of research in computer vision, many state of the art object detection algorithms have been introduced in the recent past, but how good are those object detectors when it comes to dense object detection?…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Sonaal Kant

Recent object detectors find instances while categorizing candidate regions. As each region is evaluated independently, the number of candidate regions from a detector is usually larger than the number of objects. Since the final goal of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Nuri Kim , Donghoon Lee , Songhwai Oh

There are mainly two types of state-of-the-art object detectors. On one hand, we have two-stage detectors, such as Faster R-CNN (Region-based Convolutional Neural Networks) or Mask R-CNN, that (i) use a Region Proposal Network to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Petru Soviany , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Point clouds and images could provide complementary information when representing 3D objects. Fusing the two kinds of data usually helps to improve the detection results. However, it is challenging to fuse the two data modalities, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Xun Tan , Xingyu Chen , Guowei Zhang , Jishiyu Ding , Xuguang Lan

Object detection and counting are related but challenging problems, especially for drone based scenes with small objects and cluttered background. In this paper, we propose a new Guided Attention Network (GANet) to deal with both object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Yuanqiang Cai , Dawei Du , Libo Zhang , Longyin Wen , Weiqiang Wang , Yanjun Wu , Siwei Lyu

Object detectors achieve strong performance under nominal imaging conditions but can fail silently when exposed to blur, noise, compression, adverse weather, or resolution changes. In safety-critical settings, it is therefore insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Stefan Becker , Simon Weiss , Wolfgang Hübner , Michael Arens

This paper presents a framework designed for the multi-object detection purposes and adjusted for the application of product search on the market shelves. The framework uses a single feedback loop and a pattern resizing mechanism to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Grzegorz Kurzejamski , Jacek Zawistowski , Grzegorz Sarwas

Video object detection is challenging because objects that are easily detected in one frame may be difficult to detect in another frame within the same clip. Recently, there have been major advances for doing object detection in a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Wei Han , Pooya Khorrami , Tom Le Paine , Prajit Ramachandran , Mohammad Babaeizadeh , Honghui Shi , Jianan Li , Shuicheng Yan , Thomas S. Huang

Recently, the field of few-shot detection within remote sensing imagery has witnessed significant advancements. Despite these progresses, the capacity for continuous conceptual learning still poses a significant challenge to existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Wuzhou Li , Jiawei Zhou , Xiang Li , Yi Cao , Guang Jin , Xuemin Zhang

Tiny object detection in remote sensing imagery has attracted significant research interest in recent years. Despite recent progress, achieving balanced detection performance across diverse object scales remains a formidable challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhicheng Zhao , Yin Huang , Lingma Sun , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang

Conventional 3D object detection approaches concentrate on bounding boxes representation learning with several parameters, i.e., localization, dimension, and orientation. Despite its popularity and universality, such a straightforward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Xuelin Qian , Li Wang , Yi Zhu , Li Zhang , Yanwei Fu , Xiangyang Xue

In vision-enabled autonomous systems such as robots and autonomous cars, video object detection plays a crucial role, and both its speed and accuracy are important factors to provide reliable operation. The key insight we show in this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Ting-Wu Chin , Ruizhou Ding , Diana Marculescu

This paper explores object detection in the small data regime, where only a limited number of annotated bounding boxes are available due to data rarity and annotation expense. This is a common challenge today with machine learning being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Lanlan Liu , Michael Muelly , Jia Deng , Tomas Pfister , Li-Jia Li

The aim of this research is to detect small objects with low resolution and noise. The existing real time object detection algorithm is based on the deep neural network of convolution need to perform multilevel convolution and pooling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Al-Akhir Nayan , Joyeta Saha , Ahamad Nokib Mozumder , Khan Raqib Mahmud , Abul Kalam Al Azad

Optically observing and monitoring moving objects, both natural and artificial, is important to human space security. Non-sidereal tracking can improve the system's limiting magnitude for moving objects, which benefits the surveillance.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-05 Lei Wang , Xiaoming Zhang , Chunhai Bai , Haiwen Xie , Juan Li , Jiayi Ge , Jianfeng Wang , Xianqun Zeng , Jiantao Sun , Xiaojun Jiang

Drones have proven to be useful in many industry segments such as security and surveillance, where e.g. on-board real-time object tracking is a necessity for autonomous flying guards. Tracking and following suspicious objects is therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Maarten Vandersteegen , Kristof Vanbeeck , Toon goedeme

This paper focuses on improving object detection performance by addressing the issue of image distortions, commonly encountered in uncontrolled acquisition environments. High-level computer vision tasks such as object detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Vamshi Krishna Kancharla , Neelam sinha

Detecting rotated objects accurately and efficiently is a significant challenge in computer vision, particularly in applications such as aerial imagery, remote sensing, and autonomous driving. Although traditional object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chien Thai , Mai Xuan Trang , Huong Ninh , Hoang Hiep Ly , Anh Son Le

Scale-sensitive object detection remains a challenging task, where most of the existing methods could not learn it explicitly and are not robust to scale variance. In addition, the most existing methods are less efficient during training or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Junran Peng , Ming Sun , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan , Junjie Yan

As one of the basic tasks of computer vision, object detection has been widely used in many intelligent applications. However, object detection algorithms are usually heavyweight in computation, hindering their implementations on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Zhiqiang Cao , Zhijun Li , Pan Heng , Yongrui Chen , Daqi Xie , Jie Liu