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Weakly Supervised Object Detection (WSOD), using only image-level annotations to train object detectors, is of growing importance in object recognition. In this paper, we propose a novel deep network for WSOD. Unlike previous networks that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Peng Tang , Xinggang Wang , Song Bai , Wei Shen , Xiang Bai , Wenyu Liu , Alan Yuille

Enlarging input images is a straightforward and effective approach to promote small object detection. However, simple image enlargement is significantly expensive on both computations and GPU memory. In fact, small objects are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Kai Liu , Zhihang Fu , Sheng Jin , Ze Chen , Fan Zhou , Rongxin Jiang , Yaowu Chen , Jieping Ye

Instance detection (InsDet) aims to localize specific object instances within a novel scene imagery based on given visual references. Technically, it requires proposal detection to identify all possible object instances, followed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Qianqian Shen , Yunhan Zhao , Nahyun Kwon , Jeeeun Kim , Yanan Li , Shu Kong

Object identification is one of the most fundamental and difficult issues in computer vision. It aims to discover object instances in real pictures from a huge number of established categories. In recent years, deep learning-based object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Venkata Beri

We propose an adversarial contextual model for detecting moving objects in images. A deep neural network is trained to predict the optical flow in a region using information from everywhere else but that region (context), while another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Yanchao Yang , Antonio Loquercio , Davide Scaramuzza , Stefano Soatto

The diverse spatial resolutions, various object types, scales and orientations, and cluttered backgrounds in optical remote sensing images (RSIs) challenge the current salient object detection (SOD) approaches. It is commonly unsatisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Chongyi Li , Runmin Cong , Chunle Guo , Hua Li , Chunjie Zhang , Feng Zheng , Yao Zhao

Foreground segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, encompassing various subdivision tasks. Previous research has typically designed task-specific architectures for each task, leading to a lack of unification. Moreover, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Zuyao You , Lingyu Kong , Lingchen Meng , Zuxuan Wu

Humans have a natural instinct to identify unknown object instances in their environments. The intrinsic curiosity about these unknown instances aids in learning about them, when the corresponding knowledge is eventually available. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 K J Joseph , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a pivotal role in a broad spectrum of mission-critical applications, including maritime surveillance, military search and rescue, early warning systems, and precision-guided strikes, all of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yingming Zhang , Wuqi Su , Qing Xiao , Yonggang Yang

Camouflaged object segmentation (COS) aims to identify objects that are "perfectly" assimilate into their surroundings, which has a wide range of valuable applications. The key challenge of COS is that there exist high intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Haiyang Mei , Ge-Peng Ji , Ziqi Wei , Xin Yang , Xiaopeng Wei , Deng-Ping Fan

Our work addresses the problem of learning to localize objects in an open-world setting, i.e., given the bounding box information of a limited number of object classes during training, the goal is to localize all objects, belonging to both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Ashish Singh , Michael J. Jones , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Anoop Cherian , Moitreya Chatterjee , Erik Learned-Miller

Context is important for accurate visual recognition. In this work we propose an object detection algorithm that not only considers object visual appearance, but also makes use of two kinds of context including scene contextual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Yong Liu , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Aiming at the detection difficulties of infrared images such as complex background, low signal-to-noise ratio, small target size and weak brightness, a lightweight infrared small target detection algorithm ISTD-YOLO based on improved YOLOv7…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shang Zhang , Yujie Cui , Ruoyan Xiong , Huanbin Zhang

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is highly sensitive to sensor type, observation conditions, and the intrinsic properties of the target. These factors can introduce substantial variations in the distribution of acquired infrared image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yahao Lu , Yuehui Li , Xingyuan Guo , Shuai Yuan , Yukai Shi , Liang Lin

This paper describes the methodology currently being implemented in the EIS pipeline for analysing optical/infrared multi-colour data. The aim is to identify different classes of objects as well as possible undesirable features associated…

This paper studies the challenging cross-domain few-shot object detection (CD-FSOD), aiming to develop an accurate object detector for novel domains with minimal labeled examples. While transformer-based open-set detectors, such as DE-ViT,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yuqian Fu , Yu Wang , Yixuan Pan , Lian Huai , Xingyu Qiu , Zeyu Shangguan , Tong Liu , Yanwei Fu , Luc Van Gool , Xingqun Jiang

A novel object detection method is presented that handles freely rotated objects of arbitrary sizes, including tiny objects as small as $2\times 2$ pixels. Such tiny objects appear frequently in remotely sensed images, and present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Mohsen Zand , Ali Etemad , Michael Greenspan

Salient object detection in optical remote sensing images (ORSI-SOD) has been widely explored for understanding ORSIs. However, previous methods focus mainly on improving the detection accuracy while neglecting the cost in memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Gongyang Li , Zhi Liu , Zhen Bai , Weisi Lin , and Haibin Ling

Typically, objects with the same semantics are not always prominent in images containing different backgrounds. Motivated by this observation that accurately salient object detection is related to both foreground and background, we proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Changqun Xia , Jia Li , Jinming Su , Yonghong Tian

Recent progress on salient object detection mainly aims at exploiting how to effectively integrate convolutional side-output features in convolutional neural networks (CNN). Based on this, most of the existing state-of-the-art saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Yun Liu , Yu Qiu , Le Zhang , JiaWang Bian , Guang-Yu Nie , Ming-Ming Cheng