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In recent years, deep learning based methods have achieved promising performance in standard object detection. However, these methods lack sufficient capabilities to handle underwater object detection due to these challenges: (1) Objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Long Chen , Zhihua Liu , Lei Tong , Zheheng Jiang , Shengke Wang , Junyu Dong , Huiyu Zhou

Challenges in remote sensing object detection(RSOD), such as high interclass similarity, imbalanced foreground-background distribution, and the small size of objects in remote sensing images, significantly hinder detection accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yujie Lei , Wenjie Sun , Sen Jia , Qingquan Li , Jie Zhang

Most existing point cloud based 3D object detectors focus on the tasks of classification and box regression. However, another bottleneck in this area is achieving an accurate detection confidence for the Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Jiale Li , Shujie Luo , Ziqi Zhu , Hang Dai , Andrey S. Krylov , Yong Ding , Ling Shao

Recently, infrared small target detection has attracted extensive attention. However, due to the small size and the lack of intrinsic features of infrared small targets, the existing methods generally have the problem of inaccurate edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jinmiao Zhao , Chuang Yu , Zelin Shi , Yunpeng Liu , Yingdi Zhang

In the CNN based object detectors, feature pyramids are widely exploited to alleviate the problem of scale variation across object instances. These object detectors, which strengthen features via a top-down pathway and lateral connections,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Keyang Wang , Lei Zhang

Due to the complicated background and noise of infrared images, infrared small target detection is one of the most difficult problems in the field of computer vision. In most existing studies, semantic segmentation methods are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Yuhang Chen , Liyuan Li , Xin Liu , Xiaofeng Su , Fansheng Chen

Tiny object detection has become an active area of research because images with tiny targets are common in several important real-world scenarios. However, existing tiny object detection methods use standard deep neural networks as their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jinlai Ning , Haoyan Guan , Michael Spratling

Deep learning (DL) based semantic segmentation methods have been providing state-of-the-art performance in the last few years. More specifically, these techniques have been successfully applied to medical image classification, segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Md Zahangir Alom , Mahmudul Hasan , Chris Yakopcic , Tarek M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari

While there has been significant progress in object detection using conventional image processing and machine learning algorithms, exploring small and dim target detection in the IR domain is a relatively new area of study. The majority of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Nikhil Kumar , Pravendra Singh

In order to function in unstructured environments, robots need the ability to recognize unseen objects. We take a step in this direction by tackling the problem of segmenting unseen object instances in tabletop environments. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Christopher Xie , Yu Xiang , Arsalan Mousavian , Dieter Fox

Recently, infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has been dominated by deep-learning-based methods. However, these methods mainly focus on the design of complex model structures to extract discriminative features, leaving the loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Qiankun Liu , Rui Liu , Bolun Zheng , Hongkui Wang , Ying Fu

Most scenes in practical applications are dynamic scenes containing moving objects, so segmenting accurately moving objects is crucial for many computer vision applications. In order to efficiently segment out all moving objects in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Chenjie Wang , Chengyuan Li , Bin Luo

Most object recognition approaches predominantly focus on learning discriminative visual patterns while overlooking the holistic object structure. Though important, structure modeling usually requires significant manual annotations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mohan Zhou , Yalong Bai , Wei Zhang , Tiejun Zhao , Tao Mei

Obtaining pairs of low/normal-light videos, with motions, is more challenging than still images, which raises technical issues and poses the technical route of unpaired learning as a critical role. This paper makes endeavors in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Lingyu Zhu , Wenhan Yang , Baoliang Chen , Hanwei Zhu , Zhangkai Ni , Qi Mao , Shiqi Wang

This paper proposes to use Fast Fourier Transformation-based U-Net (a refined fully convolutional networks) and perform image convolution in neural networks. Leveraging the Fast Fourier Transformation, it reduces the image convolution costs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Varsha Nair , Moitrayee Chatterjee , Neda Tavakoli , Akbar Siami Namin , Craig Snoeyink

Infrared small target detection based on deep learning offers unique advantages in separating small targets from complex and dynamic backgrounds. However, the features of infrared small targets gradually weaken as the depth of convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Chun Bao , Jie Cao , Yaqian Ning , Tianhua Zhao , Zhijun Li , Zechen Wang , Li Zhang , Qun Hao

Infrared small-target detection (ISTD) is an important computer vision task. ISTD aims at separating small targets from complex background clutter. The infrared radiation decays over distances, making the targets highly dim and prone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jingchao Peng , Haitao Zhao , Kaijie Zhao , Zhongze Wang , Lujian Yao

Advances in machine learning and deep neural networks for object detection, coupled with lower cost and power requirements of cameras, led to promising vision-based solutions for sUAS detection. However, solely relying on the visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Vinicius G. Goecks , Grayson Woods , John Valasek

Efficient and accurate detection of small objects in manufacturing settings, such as defects and cracks, is crucial for ensuring product quality and safety. To address this issue, we proposed a comprehensive strategy by synergizing Faster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Md Sohag Mia , Abdullah Al Bary Voban , Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Abdu Naim , Md Kawsar Ahmed , Md Shariful Islam

Due to object detection's close relationship with video analysis and image understanding, it has attracted much research attention in recent years. Traditional object detection methods are built on handcrafted features and shallow trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Zhong-Qiu Zhao , Peng Zheng , Shou-tao Xu , Xindong Wu