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Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) methods predominantly formulate the task as pixel-level segmentation, which requires costly dense annotations and is not well suited to tiny targets with weak texture and ambiguous boundaries. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Weihua Gao , Wenlong Niu , Jie Tang , Man Yang , Jiafeng Zhang , Xiaodong Peng

Small target detection is an essential yet challenging task in defense applications, since differentiating low-contrast targets from natural textured and noisy environment remains difficult. To better take into account the contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Alina Ciocarlan , Sylvie Le Hegarat-Mascle , Sidonie Lefebvre , Clara Barbanson

The increasing of digital radio frequency memory based electronic countermeasures poses a significant threat to the survivability and effectiveness of radar systems. These jammers can generate a multitude of deceptive false targets,…

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Even though convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are driving progress in medical image segmentation, standard models still have some drawbacks. First, the use of multi-scale approaches, i.e., encoder-decoder architectures, leads to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Ashish Sinha , Jose Dolz

Discriminating targets moving against a cluttered background is a huge challenge, let alone detecting a target as small as one or a few pixels and tracking it in flight. In the fly's visual system, a class of specific neurons, called small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Hongxin Wang , Jigen Peng , Shigang Yue

Semantic segmentation of RGB-D images involves understanding the appearance and spatial relationships of objects within a scene, which requires careful consideration of various factors. However, in indoor environments, the simple input of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Shuai Zhang , Minghong Xie

Underwater fish detection (UFD) remains a challenging task in computer vision due to low object resolution, significant background interference, and high visual similarity between targets and surroundings. Existing approaches primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jinsong Yang , Zeyuan Hu , Yichen Li

These recent years have witnessed that convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods for detecting infrared small targets have achieved outstanding performance. However, these methods typically employ standard convolutions, neglecting to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jiangnan Yang , Shuangli Liu , Jingjun Wu , Xinyu Su , Nan Hai , Xueli Huang

Multi-scale detection plays an important role in object detection models. However, researchers usually feel blank on how to reasonably configure detection heads combining multi-scale features at different input resolutions. We find that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yi Shi , Jiang Wu , Shixuan Zhao , Gangyao Gao , Tao Deng , Hongmei Yan

We present a novel detection method using a deep convolutional neural network (CNN), named AttentionNet. We cast an object detection problem as an iterative classification problem, which is the most suitable form of a CNN. AttentionNet…

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While significant advances in deep learning has resulted in state-of-the-art performance across a large number of complex visual perception tasks, the widespread deployment of deep neural networks for TinyML applications involving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Alexander Wong , Mahmoud Famouri , Mohammad Javad Shafiee

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is challenging because tiny, low-contrast targets are easily obscured by complex and dynamic backgrounds. Conventional multi-frame approaches typically learn motion implicitly through deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Nian Liu , Jin Gao , Shubo Lin , Yutong Kou , Sikui Zhang , Fudong Ge , Zhiqiang Pu , Liang Li , Gang Wang , Yizheng Wang , Weiming Hu

Pan-sharpening is a fundamental and significant task in the field of remote sensing imagery processing, in which high-resolution spatial details from panchromatic images are employed to enhance the spatial resolution of multi-spectral (MS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Qiangqiang Yuan , Yancong Wei , Xiangchao Meng , Huanfeng Shen , Liangpei Zhang

Small target motion detection is critical for insects to search for and track mates or prey which always appear as small dim speckles in the visual field. A class of specific neurons, called small target motion detectors (STMDs), has been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Hongxin Wang , Jigen Peng , Shigang Yue

Vision-based vehicle detection approaches achieve incredible success in recent years with the development of deep convolutional neural network (CNN). However, existing CNN based algorithms suffer from the problem that the convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Xiaowei Hu , Xuemiao Xu , Yongjie Xiao , Hao Chen , Shengfeng He , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and attention mechanisms have been widely used in image denoising and achieved satisfactory performance. However, the previous works mostly use a single head to receive the noisy image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Jiahong Zhang , Meijun Qu , Ye Wang , Lihong Cao

There are two main issues in RGB-D salient object detection: (1) how to effectively integrate the complementarity from the cross-modal RGB-D data; (2) how to prevent the contamination effect from the unreliable depth map. In fact, these two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zuyao Chen , Runmin Cong , Qianqian Xu , Qingming Huang

We recently proposed a convolutional neural network (CNN) for remote sensing image pansharpening obtaining a significant performance gain over the state of the art. In this paper, we explore a number of architectural and training variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Giuseppe Scarpa , Sergio Vitale , Davide Cozzolino

Auditory attention detection (AAD) aims to detect the target speaker in a multi-talker environment from brain signals, such as electroencephalography (EEG), which has made great progress. However, most AAD methods solely utilize attention…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Lu Li , Cunhang Fan , Hongyu Zhang , Jingjing Zhang , Xiaoke Yang , Jian Zhou , Zhao Lv

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have advanced significantly in visual representation learning and recognition. However, they face notable challenges in performance and computational efficiency when dealing with real-world, multi-scale…

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