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Infrared small target detection is crucial for the efficacy of infrared search and tracking systems. Current tensor decomposition methods emphasize representing small targets with sparsity but struggle to separate targets from complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Fei Zhou , Maixia Fu , Yulei Qian , Jian Yang , Yimian Dai

Infrared small target detection faces the inherent challenge of precisely localizing dim targets amidst complex background clutter. Traditional approaches struggle to balance detection precision and false alarm rates. To break this dilemma,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yimian Dai , Peiwen Pan , Yulei Qian , Yuxuan Li , Xiang Li , Jian Yang , Huan Wang

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

Recent work has shown that convolutional networks can be substantially deeper, more accurate, and efficient to train if they contain shorter connections between layers close to the input and those close to the output. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Gao Huang , Zhuang Liu , Geoff Pleiss , Laurens van der Maaten , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Recent work has shown that convolutional networks can be substantially deeper, more accurate, and efficient to train if they contain shorter connections between layers close to the input and those close to the output. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Gao Huang , Zhuang Liu , Laurens van der Maaten , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Deep-learning based salient object detection methods achieve great progress. However, the variable scale and unknown category of salient objects are great challenges all the time. These are closely related to the utilization of multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) increase depth by stacking convolutional layers, and deeper network models perform better in image recognition. Empirical research shows that simply stacking convolutional layers does not make the network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Rui-Yang Ju , Jen-Shiun Chiang , Chih-Chia Chen , Yu-Shian Lin

We consider a multi-object detection problem over a sensor network (SNET) with limited range sensors. This problem complements the widely considered decentralized detection problem where all sensors observe the same object. While the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Erhan B. Ermis , Venkatesh Saligrama

The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a significant advancement in natural image segmentation, exhibiting potent zero-shot performance suitable for various downstream image segmentation tasks. However, directly utilizing the pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Mingjin Zhang , Yuchun Wang , Jie Guo , Yunsong Li , Xinbo Gao , Jing Zhang

Most salient object detection approaches use U-Net or feature pyramid networks (FPN) as their basic structures. These methods ignore two key problems when the encoder exchanges information with the decoder: one is the lack of interference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Xiaoqi Zhao , Youwei Pang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu , Lei Zhang

With the rapid advancement of vision generation models, the potential security risks stemming from synthetic visual content have garnered increasing attention, posing significant challenges for AI-generated image detection. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xinghan Li , Yue Yu , Xue Song , Haijun Shan , Jingjing Chen

To get more accurate saliency maps, recent methods mainly focus on aggregating multi-level features from fully convolutional network (FCN) and introducing edge information as auxiliary supervision. Though remarkable progress has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Jun Wei , Shuhui Wang , Zhe Wu , Chi Su , Qingming Huang , Qi Tian

Semantic labeling (or pixel-level land-cover classification) in ultra-high resolution imagery (< 10cm) requires statistical models able to learn high level concepts from spatial data, with large appearance variations. Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Michele Volpi , Devis Tuia

While invaluable for many computer vision applications, decomposing a natural image into intrinsic reflectance and shading layers represents a challenging, underdetermined inverse problem. As opposed to strict reliance on conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Qingnan Fan , Jiaolong Yang , Gang Hua , Baoquan Chen , David Wipf

Over the past few years, state-of-the-art image segmentation algorithms are based on deep convolutional neural networks. To render a deep network with the ability to understand a concept, humans need to collect a large amount of pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Weide Liu , Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Fayao Liu

High-resolution remote sensing imagery increasingly contains dense clusters of tiny objects, the detection of which is extremely challenging due to severe mutual occlusion and limited pixel footprints. Existing detection methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhicheng Zhao , Xuanang Fan , Lingma Sun , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang

Because the expansion path of U-Net may ignore the characteristics of small targets, intermediate supervision mechanism is proposed. The original mask is also entered into the network as a label for intermediate output. However, U-Net is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Di Yuan , Junyang Chen , Zhenghua Xu , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Zhigang Fu , Guizhi Xu

We focus on the challenging task of real-time semantic segmentation in this paper. It finds many practical applications and yet is with fundamental difficulty of reducing a large portion of computation for pixel-wise label inference. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Hengshuang Zhao , Xiaojuan Qi , Xiaoyong Shen , Jianping Shi , Jiaya Jia

Precisely estimating lumen boundaries in intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is needed for sizing interventional stents to treat deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Unfortunately, current segmentation networks like the UNet lack the precision needed…

Current methods for restoring underexposed images typically rely on supervised learning with paired underexposed and well-illuminated images. However, collecting such datasets is often impractical in real-world scenarios. Moreover, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Hailong Yan , Junjian Huang , Tingwen Huang