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Infrared and visible image fusion has gradually proved to be a vital fork in the field of multi-modality imaging technologies. In recent developments, researchers not only focus on the quality of fused images but also evaluate their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jiawei Li , Jiansheng Chen , Jinyuan Liu , Huimin Ma

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) plays a critical role in a wide range of civilian and military applications. Existing methods suffer from deficiencies in the localization of dim targets and the perception of contour information under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Jiakun Deng , Kexuan Li , Xingye Cui , Jiaxuan Li , Chang Long , Tian Pu , Zhenming Peng

Partial label learning (PLL) is a typical weakly supervised learning, where each sample is associated with a set of candidate labels. Its basic assumption is that the ground-truth label must be in the candidate set, but this assumption may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Zheng Lian , Mingyu Xu , Lan Chen , Licai Sun , Bin Liu , Lei Feng , Jianhua Tao

Deep learning based fusion methods have been achieving promising performance in image fusion tasks. This is attributed to the network architecture that plays a very important role in the fusion process. However, in general, it is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hui Li , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Jiwen Lu , Josef Kittler

Traditional semantic segmentation requires a large labeled image dataset and can only be predicted within predefined classes. To solve this problem, few-shot segmentation, which requires only a handful of annotations for the new target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Atsuro Okazawa

Many targets are often very small in infrared images due to the long-distance imaging meachnism. UNet and its variants, as popular detection backbone networks, downsample the local features early and cause the irreversible loss of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Wuzhou Quan , Wei Zhao , Weiming Wang , Haoran Xie , Fu Lee Wang , Mingqiang Wei

Advances in lightweight neural networks have revolutionized computer vision in a broad range of IoT applications, encompassing remote monitoring and process automation. However, the detection of small objects, which is crucial for many of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Liam Boyle , Nicolas Baumann , Seonyeong Heo , Michele Magno

Single-frame infrared small target detection remains a challenge not only due to the scarcity of intrinsic target characteristics but also because of lacking a public dataset. In this paper, we first contribute an open dataset with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Yimian Dai , Yiquan Wu , Fei Zhou , Kobus Barnard

The goal of few-shot learning is to classify unseen categories with few labeled samples. Recently, the low-level information metric-learning based methods have achieved satisfying performance, since local representations (LRs) are more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Haoxing Chen , Huaxiong Li , Yaohui Li , Chunlin Chen

Salient object detection (SOD) in panoramic video is still in the initial exploration stage. The indirect application of 2D video SOD method to the detection of salient objects in panoramic video has many unmet challenges, such as low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Xiaolei Chen , Pengcheng Zhang , Zelong Du , Ishfaq Ahmad

As the volume of image data grows, data-oriented cloud computing in Internet of Video Things (IoVT) systems encounters latency issues. Task-oriented edge computing addresses this by shifting data analysis to the edge. However, limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jiaqi Wu , Simin Chen , Zehua Wang , Wei Chen , Zijian Tian , F. Richard Yu , Victor C. M. Leung

One-stage object detectors such as SSD or YOLO already have shown promising accuracy with small memory footprint and fast speed. However, it is widely recognized that one-stage detectors have difficulty in detecting small objects while they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Sanghyun Woo , Soonmin Hwang , In So Kweon

Resolving closely-spaced small targets in dense clusters presents a significant challenge in infrared imaging, as the overlapping signals hinder precise determination of their quantity, sub-pixel positions, and radiation intensities. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Shengdong Han , Shangdong Yang , Xin Zhang , Yuxuan Li , Xiang Li , Jian Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Yimian Dai

Detecting small targets in drone imagery is challenging due to low resolution, complex backgrounds, and dynamic scenes. We propose EDNet, a novel edge-target detection framework built on an enhanced YOLOv10 architecture, optimized for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Zhifan Song , Yuan Zhang , Abd Al Rahman M. Abu Ebayyeh

Infrared small target detection is a key technique in infrared search and tracking (IRST) systems. Although deep learning has been widely used in the vision tasks of visible light images recently, it is rarely used in infrared small target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Mingxin Zhao , Li Cheng , Xu Yang , Peng Feng , Liyuan Liu , Nanjian Wu

Most existing lightweight RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) models are based on two-stream structure or single-stream structure. The former one first uses two sub-networks to extract unimodal features from RGB and depth images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Nianchang Huang , Qiang Zhang , Jungong Han

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 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

While one-stage detectors like YOLOv8 offer fast training speed, they often under-perform on detecting small objects as a trade-off. This becomes even more critical when detecting tiny objects in aerial imagery due to low-resolution targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Kihyun Kim , Michalis Lazarou , Tania Stathaki

As 3D perception problems grow in popularity and the need for large-scale labeled datasets for LiDAR semantic segmentation increase, new methods arise that aim to reduce the necessity for dense annotations by employing weakly-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Ozan Unal , Dengxin Dai , Lukas Hoyer , Yigit Baran Can , Luc Van Gool