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Recently, significant progresses have been made in object detection on common benchmarks (i.e., Pascal VOC). However, object detection in real world is still challenging due to the serious data imbalance. Images in real world are dominated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Dongming Yang , YueXian Zou , Jian Zhang , Ge Li

Detecting both known and unknown objects is a fundamental skill for robot manipulation in unstructured environments. Open-set object detection (OSOD) is a promising direction to handle the problem consisting of two subtasks: objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Zhongxiang Zhou , Yifei Yang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

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

We study the problem of object detection over scanned images of scientific documents. We consider images that contain objects of varying aspect ratios and sizes and range from coarse elements such as tables and figures to fine elements such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Ankur Goswami , Joshua McGrath , Shanan Peters , Theodoros Rekatsinas

This survey paper specially analyzed computer vision-based object detection challenges and solutions by different techniques. We mainly highlighted object detection by three different trending strategies, i.e., 1) domain adaptive deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Muhammed Muzammul , Xi Li

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

Generic object detection is one of the most fundamental problems in computer vision, yet it is difficult to provide all the bounding-box-level annotations aiming at large-scale object detection for thousands of categories. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Ye Guo , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang

Detection of objects is extremely important in various aerial vision-based applications. Over the last few years, the methods based on convolution neural networks have made substantial progress. However, because of the large variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Jocelyn Chanussot , Huiyu Zhou , Jie Yang

The recent COCO object detection dataset presents several new challenges for object detection. In particular, it contains objects at a broad range of scales, less prototypical images, and requires more precise localization. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Sergey Zagoruyko , Adam Lerer , Tsung-Yi Lin , Pedro O. Pinheiro , Sam Gross , Soumith Chintala , Piotr Dollár

Object detection is a fundamental problem in image understanding. One popular solution is the R-CNN framework and its fast versions. They decompose the object detection problem into two cascaded easier tasks: 1) generating object proposals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Bin Yang , Junjie Yan , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

Despite notable advancements in the field of computer vision, the precise detection of tiny objects continues to pose a significant challenge, largely owing to the minuscule pixel representation allocated to these objects in imagery data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Hou-I Liu , Yu-Wen Tseng , Kai-Cheng Chang , Pin-Jyun Wang , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Detecting tiny objects in multimodal Red-Green-Blue-Thermal (RGBT) imagery is a critical challenge in computer vision, particularly in surveillance, search and rescue, and autonomous navigation. Drone-based scenarios exacerbate these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Peiran Peng , Tingfa Xu , Liqiang Song , Mengqi Zhu , Yuqiang Fang , Jianan Li

Due to object detection's close relationship with video analysis and image understanding, it has attracted much research attention in recent years. Traditional object detection methods are built on handcrafted features and shallow trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Zhong-Qiu Zhao , Peng Zheng , Shou-tao Xu , Xindong Wu

The ability to detect small objects and the speed of the object detector are very important for the application of autonomous driving, and in this paper, we propose an effective yet efficient one-stage detector, which gained the second…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Qijie Zhao , Tao Sheng , Yongtao Wang , Feng Ni , Ling Cai

Fine-grained object categorization aims for distinguishing objects of subordinate categories that belong to the same entry-level object category. The task is challenging due to the facts that (1) training images with ground-truth labels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Yabin Zhang , Kui Jia , Zhixin Wang

Existing state-of-the-art salient object detection networks rely on aggregating multi-level features of pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Compared to high-level features, low-level features contribute less to performance but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Zhe Wu , Li Su , Qingming Huang

Small object detection is a broadly investigated research task and is commonly conceptualized as a "pipeline-style" engineering process. In the upstream, images serve as raw materials for processing in the detection pipeline, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Siwei Wang , Zhiwei Chen , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

At present, the performance of deep neural network in general object detection is comparable to or even surpasses that of human beings. However, due to the limitations of deep learning itself, the small proportion of feature pixels, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Kai Yi , Zhiqiang Jian , Shitao Chen , Nanning Zheng

Object detection is a challenging task in remote sensing because objects only occupy a few pixels in the images, and the models are required to simultaneously learn object locations and detection. Even though the established approaches well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Jocelyn Chanussot , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Huiyu Zhou , Jie Yang

Many modern approaches for object detection are two-staged pipelines. The first stage identifies regions of interest which are then classified in the second stage. Faster R-CNN is such an approach for object detection which combines both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Christian Eggert , Dan Zecha , Stephan Brehm , Rainer Lienhart