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The small receptive field and capacity of minimal neural networks limit their performance when using them to be the backbone of detectors. In this work, we find that the appearance feature of a generic face is discriminative enough for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Yuhang Zang , Xiaogang Wang , Biao Leng , Qingsheng Yuan

Object detection is widely used on embedded devices. With the wide availability of CNN (Convolutional Neural Networks) accelerator chips, the object detection applications are expected to run with low power consumption, and high inference…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Baohua Sun , Tao Zhang , Jiapeng Su , Hao Sha

Rotated object detection in aerial images has received increasing attention for a wide range of applications. However, it is also a challenging task due to the huge variations of scale, rotation, aspect ratio, and densely arranged targets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Feng Zhang , Xueying Wang , Shilin Zhou , Yingqian Wang

4D mmWave radar provides weather-robust, velocity-aware measurements and is more cost-effective than LiDAR. However, radar-only 3D detection still trails LiDAR-based systems because radar point clouds are sparse, irregular, and often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yichun Xiao , Runwei Guan , Fangqiang Ding

Remote sensing object detection is a critical technology for real-world applications such as natural resource monitoring, traffic management, and UAV-based rescue. Detecting tiny objects in high-resolution aerial imagery remains challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Ben Liang , Hongguang Wei , Yuan Liu , Bingwen Qiu , Yihong Wang , Xiubao Sui , Qian Chen

Recently, object detection in aerial images has gained much attention in computer vision. Different from objects in natural images, aerial objects are often distributed with arbitrary orientation. Therefore, the detector requires more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Jiaming Han , Jian Ding , Nan Xue , Gui-Song Xia

Autonomous driving perceives its surroundings for decision making, which is one of the most complex scenarios in visual perception. The success of paradigm innovation in solving the 2D object detection task inspires us to seek an elegant,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Junjie Huang , Guan Huang , Zheng Zhu , Yun Ye , Dalong Du

FPN-based detectors have made significant progress in general object detection, e.g., MS COCO and PASCAL VOC. However, these detectors fail in certain application scenarios, e.g., tiny object detection. In this paper, we argue that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yuqi Gong , Xuehui Yu , Yao Ding , Xiaoke Peng , Jian Zhao , Zhenjun Han

Object detection plays an important role in various visual applications. However, the precision and speed of detector are usually contradictory. One main reason for fast detectors' precision reduction is that small objects are hard to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Siyang Sun , Yingjie Yin , Xingang Wang , De Xu , Yuan Zhao , Haifeng Shen

Face detection has received intensive attention in recent years. Many works present lots of special methods for face detection from different perspectives like model architecture, data augmentation, label assignment and etc., which make the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Yanjia Zhu , Hongxiang Cai , Shuhan Zhang , Chenhao Wang , Yichao Xiong

Detecting small objects in complex scenes, such as those captured by drones, is a daunting challenge due to the difficulty in capturing the complex features of small targets. While the YOLO family has achieved great success in large target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Defan Chen , Luchan Zhang

Recently, the convolutional neural network has brought impressive improvements for object detection. However, detecting tiny objects in large-scale remote sensing images still remains challenging. First, the extreme large input size makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jiangmiao Pang , Cong Li , Jianping Shi , Zhihai Xu , Huajun Feng

A critical aspect in the manufacturing process is the visual quality inspection of manufactured components for defects and flaws. Human-only visual inspection can be very time-consuming and laborious, and is a significant bottleneck…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Mahmoud Famouri , Gautam Bathla , Francis Li , Alexander Wong

Model efficiency is crucial for object detection. Mostprevious works rely on either hand-crafted design or auto-search methods to obtain a static architecture, regardless ofthe difference of inputs. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Junyi Feng , Jiashen Hua , Baisheng Lai , Jianqiang Huang , Xi Li , Xian-sheng Hua

Rotation detection is a challenging task due to the difficulties of locating the multi-angle objects and separating them effectively from the background. Though considerable progress has been made, for practical settings, there still exist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Xue Yang , Junchi Yan , Ziming Feng , Tao He

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

Object Detection is the task of identifying the existence of an object class instance and locating it within an image. Difficulties in handling high intra-class variations constitute major obstacles to achieving high performance on standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Osama Khalil , Andrew Habib

Small object detection remains a significant challenge due to feature degradation from downsampling, mutual occlusion in dense clusters, and complex background interference. To address these issues, this paper proposes FSDETR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jianchao Huang , Fengming Zhang , Haibo Zhu , Tao Yan

This paper introduces a highly flexible, quantized, memory-efficient, and ultra-lightweight object detection network, called TinyissimoYOLO. It aims to enable object detection on microcontrollers in the power domain of milliwatts, with less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Julian Moosmann , Marco Giordano , Christian Vogt , Michele Magno

In this paper, we deal with the problem of object detection on remote sensing images. Previous methods have developed numerous deep CNN-based methods for object detection on remote sensing images and the report remarkable achievements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Jingyu Deng , Xiang Li , Yi Fang