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Object detection and counting are related but challenging problems, especially for drone based scenes with small objects and cluttered background. In this paper, we propose a new Guided Attention Network (GANet) to deal with both object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Yuanqiang Cai , Dawei Du , Libo Zhang , Longyin Wen , Weiqiang Wang , Yanjun Wu , Siwei Lyu

The detection of small objects in aerial images is a fundamental task in the field of computer vision. Moving objects in aerial photography have problems such as different shapes and sizes, dense overlap, occlusion by the background, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Haodong Li , Haicheng Qu

We present SparseAttnNet, a new hierarchical attention-driven framework for efficient image classification that adaptively selects and processes only the most informative pixels from images. Traditional convolutional neural networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Elad Yoshai , Dana Yagoda-Aharoni , Eden Dotan , Natan T. Shaked

This paper addresses the problem of multi-object tracking in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) footage. It plays a critical role in various UAV applications, including traffic monitoring systems and real-time suspect tracking by the police.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 InPyo Song , Jangwon Lee

Small object detection (SOD) in anti-UAV task is a challenging problem due to the small size of UAVs and complex backgrounds. Traditional frame-based cameras struggle to detect small objects in complex environments due to their low frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Nuo Chen , Chao Xiao , Yimian Dai , Shiman He , Miao Li , Wei An

Most contributions on Few-Shot Object Detection (FSOD) evaluate their methods on natural images only, yet the transferability of the announced performance is not guaranteed for applications on other kinds of images. We demonstrate this with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Pierre Le Jeune

Lane detection is critical for autonomous driving and ad-vanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). While recent methods like CLRNet achieve strong performance, they struggle under adverse con-ditions such as extreme weather, illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Kunyang Li , Ming Hou

Anti-UAV tracking poses significant challenges, including small target sizes, abrupt camera motion, and cluttered infrared backgrounds. Existing tracking paradigms can be broadly categorized into global- and local-based methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Ying Wang , Tingfa Xu , Jianan Li

Moving infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a critical role in practical applications, such as surveillance of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and UAV-based search system. Moving IRSTD still remains highly challenging due to weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Houzhang Fang , Shukai Guo , Qiuhuan Chen , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

Partial point cloud registration is essential for autonomous perception and 3D scene understanding, yet it remains challenging owing to structural ambiguity, partial visibility, and noise. We address these issues by proposing Confidence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yongqiang Wang , Weigang Li , Wenping Liu , Zhe Xu , Zhiqiang Tian

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to identify the objects that conceal themselves in natural scenes. Accurate COD suffers from a number of challenges associated with low boundary contrast and the large variation of object appearances,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Geng Chen , Si-Jie Liu , Yu-Jia Sun , Ge-Peng Ji , Ya-Feng Wu , Tao Zhou

We introduce Spatial Group Convolution (SGC) for accelerating the computation of 3D dense prediction tasks. SGC is orthogonal to group convolution, which works on spatial dimensions rather than feature channel dimension. It divides input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Jiahui Zhang , Hao Zhao , Anbang Yao , Yurong Chen , Li Zhang , Hongen Liao

Spatial-wise dynamic convolution has become a promising approach to improving the inference efficiency of deep networks. By allocating more computation to the most informative pixels, such an adaptive inference paradigm reduces the spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yizeng Han , Zhihang Yuan , Yifan Pu , Chenhao Xue , Shiji Song , Guangyu Sun , Gao Huang

Having precise perception of the environment is crucial for ensuring the secure and reliable functioning of autonomous driving systems. Radar object detection networks are one fundamental part of such systems. CNN-based object detectors…

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Feature pyramid has been an efficient method to extract features at different scales. Development over this method mainly focuses on aggregating contextual information at different levels while seldom touching the inter-level correlation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Xinjiang Wang , Shilong Zhang , Zhuoran Yu , Litong Feng , Wayne Zhang

Few-shot learning in remote sensing remains challenging due to three factors: the scarcity of labeled data, substantial domain shifts, and the multi-scale nature of geospatial objects. To address these issues, we introduce Adaptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Anurag Kaushish , Ayan Sar , Sampurna Roy , Sudeshna Chakraborty , Prashant Trivedi , Tanupriya Choudhury , Kanav Gupta

Image registration is a key component of various image processing operations which involve the analysis of different image data sets. Automatic image registration domains have witnessed the application of many intelligent methodologies over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-26 P. V. Arun , S. K. Katiyar

SSD is one of the state-of-the-art object detection algorithms, and it combines high detection accuracy with real-time speed. However, it is widely recognized that SSD is less accurate in detecting small objects compared to large objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Wei Xiang , Dong-Qing Zhang , Heather Yu , Vassilis Athitsos

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images remains a highly challenging task, primarily caused by the complexity of background noise and the imbalance of target scales. Traditional methods easily struggle to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Wenfeng Zhang , Jun Ni , Yue Meng , Xiaodong Pei , Wei Hu , Qibing Qin , Lei Huang

Real-world object detection must operate in evolving environments where new classes emerge, domains shift, and unseen objects must be identified as "unknown": all without accessing prior data. We introduce Evolving World Object Detection…

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