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Targets in remote sensing images are usually small, weakly textured, and easily disturbed by complex backgrounds, challenging high-precision detection with general algorithms. Building on our earlier ESM-YOLO, this work presents ESM-YOLO+…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Qianqian Zhang , Xiaolong Jia , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Li Zhou , Junshe An

Camouflaged object detection has attracted a lot of attention in computer vision. The main challenge lies in the high degree of similarity between camouflaged objects and their surroundings in the spatial domain, making identification…

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Training a convolutional neural network (CNN) to detect infrared small targets in a fully supervised manner has gained remarkable research interests in recent years, but is highly labor expensive since a large number of per-pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Xinyi Ying , Li Liu , Yingqian Wang , Ruojing Li , Nuo Chen , Zaiping Lin , Weidong Sheng , Shilin Zhou

Although prototypical network (ProtoNet) has proved to be an effective method for few-shot sound event detection, two problems still exist. Firstly, the small-scaled support set is insufficient so that the class prototypes may not represent…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Dongchao Yang , Helin Wang , Yuexian Zou , Zhongjie Ye , Wenwu Wang

High-resolution remote sensing imagery increasingly contains dense clusters of tiny objects, the detection of which is extremely challenging due to severe mutual occlusion and limited pixel footprints. Existing detection methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhicheng Zhao , Xuanang Fan , Lingma Sun , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang

In many real-world problems, collecting a large number of labeled samples is infeasible. Few-shot learning (FSL) is the dominant approach to address this issue, where the objective is to quickly adapt to novel categories in presence of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Few-shot learning (FSL) based on manifold regularization aims to improve the recognition capacity of novel objects with limited training samples by mixing two samples from different categories with a blending factor. However, this mixing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Xingyu Zhu , Shuo Wang , Jinda Lu , Yanbin Hao , Haifeng Liu , Xiangnan He

Existing few-shot learning (FSL) methods assume that there exist sufficient training samples from source classes for knowledge transfer to target classes with few training samples. However, this assumption is often invalid, especially when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Jianhong Zhang , Manli Zhang , Zhiwu Lu , Tao Xiang , Jirong Wen

Infrared small target detection faces the inherent challenge of precisely localizing dim targets amidst complex background clutter. Traditional approaches struggle to balance detection precision and false alarm rates. To break this dilemma,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yimian Dai , Peiwen Pan , Yulei Qian , Yuxuan Li , Xiang Li , Jian Yang , Huan Wang

Humans are very good at directing their visual attention toward relevant areas when they search for different types of objects. For instance, when we search for cars, we will look at the streets, not at the top of buildings. The motivation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Hughes Perreault , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Nicolas Saunier , Maguelonne Héritier

Incremental few-shot learning is highly expected for practical robotics applications. On one hand, robot is desired to learn new tasks quickly and flexibly using only few annotated training samples; on the other hand, such new additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Sichao Tian , Fan Feng , Jun Ma , Chek Sing Teo , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

This paper introduces a novel federated learning framework termed LoRa-FL designed for training low-rank one-shot image detection models deployed on edge devices. By incorporating low-rank adaptation techniques into one-shot detection…

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Although deep learning based methods have achieved great progress in unsupervised video object segmentation, difficult scenarios (e.g., visual similarity, occlusions, and appearance changing) are still not well-handled. To alleviate these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Daizong Liu , Dongdong Yu , Changhu Wang , Pan Zhou

To reduce annotation labor associated with object detection, an increasing number of studies focus on transferring the learned knowledge from a labeled source domain to another unlabeled target domain. However, existing methods assume that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Xingxu Yao , Sicheng Zhao , Pengfei Xu , Jufeng Yang

Infrared small target detection and segmentation (IRSTDS) is a critical yet challenging task in defense and civilian applications, owing to the dim, shapeless appearance of targets and severe background clutter. Recent CNN-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Maoxun Yuan , Duanni Meng , Ziteng Xi , Tianyi Zhao , Shiji Zhao , Yimian Dai , Xingxing Wei

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is one of the key techniques in image processing. Although deep unfolding networks (DUNs) have demonstrated promising performance in ISTD due to their model interpretability and data adaptability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Jingjing Liu , Yinchao Han , Xianchao Xiu , Jianhua Zhang , Wanquan Liu

Continual learning (CL) aims to learn new tasks while retaining past knowledge, addressing the challenge of forgetting during task adaptation. Rehearsal-based methods, which replay previous samples, effectively mitigate forgetting. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Ruiqi Liu , Boyu Diao , Libo Huang , Hangda Liu , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu

Network anomaly detection aims to find network elements (e.g., nodes, edges, subgraphs) with significantly different behaviors from the vast majority. It has a profound impact in a variety of applications ranging from finance, healthcare to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Kaize Ding , Qinghai Zhou , Hanghang Tong , Huan Liu

Few-shot learning focuses on learning a new visual concept with very limited labelled examples. A successful approach to tackle this problem is to compare the similarity between examples in a learned metric space based on convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Heda Song , Mercedes Torres Torres , Ender Özcan , Isaac Triguero

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) faces the inherent challenge of precisely localizing dim targets amid complex background clutter. While progress has been made, existing methods usually follow conventional strategies to downsample…

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