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The aim of surface defect detection is to identify and localise abnormal regions on the surfaces of captured objects, a task that's increasingly demanded across various industries. Current approaches frequently fail to fulfil the extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Blaž Rolih , Matic Fučka , Danijel Skočaj

In this paper, we propose a novel object detection algorithm named "Deep Regionlets" by integrating deep neural networks and a conventional detection schema for accurate generic object detection. Motivated by the effectiveness of regionlets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Hongyu Xu , Xutao Lv , Xiaoyu Wang , Zhou Ren , Navaneeth Bodla , Rama Chellappa

Bounding box regression is the crucial step in object detection. In existing methods, while $\ell_n$-norm loss is widely adopted for bounding box regression, it is not tailored to the evaluation metric, i.e., Intersection over Union (IoU).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Zhaohui Zheng , Ping Wang , Wei Liu , Jinze Li , Rongguang Ye , Dongwei Ren

In unmanned aerial systems, especially in complex environments, accurately detecting tiny objects is crucial. Resizing images is a common strategy to improve detection accuracy, particularly for small objects. However, simply enlarging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Luqi Gong , Haotian Chen , Yikun Chen , Tianliang Yao , Chao Li , Shuai Zhao , Guangjie Han

Recent advances in camera equipped drone applications and their widespread use increased the demand on vision based object detection algorithms for aerial images. Object detection process is inherently a challenging task as a generic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Berat Mert Albaba , Sedat Ozer

Technological advancements have normalized the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in every sector, spanning from military to commercial but they also pose serious security concerns due to their enhanced functionalities and easy access…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Maham Misbah , Misha Urooj Khan , Zhaohui Yang , Zeeshan Kaleem

Purpose: Automated distinct bone segmentation from CT scans is widely used in planning and navigation workflows. U-Net variants are known to provide excellent results in supervised semantic segmentation. However, in distinct bone…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Eva Schnider , Julia Wolleb , Antal Huck , Mireille Toranelli , Georg Rauter , Magdalena Müller-Gerbl , Philippe C. Cattin

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have substantially advanced object detection capabilities, particularly in remote sensing imagery. However, challenges persist, especially in detecting small objects where the high resolution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jiahao Zhang , Xiao Zhao , Guangyu Gao

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has recently benefitted greatly from U-shaped neural models. However, largely overlooking effective global information modeling, existing techniques struggle when the target has high similarities with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Shuai Yuan , Hanlin Qin , Xiang Yan , Naveed AKhtar , Ajmal Mian

We investigated the use of a U-Net convolutional neural network for denoising simulated medium-resolution spectroscopic observations of stars. Simulated spectra were generated under realistic observational conditions resembling the Subaru…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 Balázs Pál , László Dobos

Medical images often exhibit low and blurred contrast between lesions and surrounding tissues, with considerable variation in lesion edges and shapes even within the same disease, leading to significant challenges in segmentation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Wang Jiangtao , Nur Intan Raihana Ruhaiyem , Fu Panpan

General object detectors use powerful backbones that uniformly extract features from images for enabling detection of a vast amount of object types. However, utilization of such backbones in object detection applications developed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Alexandra Dana , Maor Shutman , Yotam Perlitz , Ran Vitek , Tomer Peleg , Roy J Jevnisek

Face detection has witnessed significant progress due to the advances of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Its central issue in recent years is how to improve the detection performance of tiny faces. To this end, many recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Faen Zhang , Xinyu Fan , Guo Ai , Jianfei Song , Yongqiang Qin , Jiahong Wu

Accurate segmentation of retinal vessels is a basic step in Diabetic retinopathy(DR) detection. Most methods based on deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) have small receptive fields, and hence they are unable to capture global context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Yun Jiang , Ning Tan , Tingting Peng , Hai Zhang

The main challenge for small object detection algorithms is to ensure accuracy while pursuing real-time performance. The RT-DETR model performs well in real-time object detection, but performs poorly in small object detection accuracy. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ji Huang , Hui Wang

Due to its excellent performance, U-Net is the most widely used backbone architecture for biomedical image segmentation in the recent years. However, in our studies, we observe that there is a considerable performance drop in the case of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-10 Jeya Maria Jose , Vishwanath Sindagi , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M. Patel

It is well known that contextual and multi-scale representations are important for accurate visual recognition. In this paper we present the Inside-Outside Net (ION), an object detector that exploits information both inside and outside the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Sean Bell , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Kavita Bala , Ross Girshick

Region Proposal Network (RPN) is the cornerstone of two-stage object detectors, it generates a sparse set of object proposals and alleviates the extrem foregroundbackground class imbalance problem during training. However, we find that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Li Zhu , Zihao Xie , Liman Liu , Bo Tao , Wenbing Tao

Object counting is an important task in computer vision due to its growing demand in applications such as traffic monitoring or surveillance. In this paper, we consider object counting as a learning problem of a joint feature extraction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Daniel Oñoro-Rubio , Mathias Niepert , Roberto J. López-Sastre

Infrared small target detection faces the problem that it is difficult to effectively separate the background and the target. Existing deep learning-based methods focus on edge and shape features, but ignore the richer structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jinmiao Zhao , Zelin Shi , Chuang Yu , Yunpeng Liu , Xinyi Ying , Yimian Dai