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It is a big problem that a model of deep learning for a picking robot needs many labeled images. Operating costs of retraining a model becomes very expensive because the object shape of a product or a part often is changed in a factory. It…

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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) target tracking based on thermal infrared imaging has been one of the most important sensing technologies in anti-UAV applications. However, the infrared UAV targets often exhibit weak features and complex…

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Magnetic resonance imaging is a powerful, non invasive tool for medical diagnosis. The low sensitivity for detecting the nuclear spin signals, typically limits the image resolution to several tens of micrometers in preclinical systems and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 Leonardo A. Pedraza Perez , Gonzalo A. Alvarez

A Digital Twin (DT) framework to enhance carbon-based gas plume monitoring is critical for supporting timely and effective mitigation responses to environmental hazards such as industrial gas leaks, or wildfire outbreaks carrying large…

In autonomous driving scenarios, accurate perception is becoming an even more critical task for safe navigation. While LiDAR provides precise spatial data, its inherent sparsity makes it difficult to detect small or distant objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Minseung Lee , Seokha Moon , Seung Joon Lee , Reza Mahjourian , Jinkyu Kim

To address the challenge of capturing highly discriminative features in ther-mal infrared (TIR) tracking, we propose a novel Siamese tracker based on cross-channel fine-grained feature learning and progressive fusion. First, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ruoyan Xiong , Yuke Hou , Princess Retor Torboh , Hui He , Huanbin Zhang , Yue Zhang , Yanpin Wang , Huipan Guan , Shang Zhang

Existing deep Thermal InfraRed (TIR) trackers usually use the feature models of RGB trackers for representation. However, these feature models learned on RGB images are neither effective in representing TIR objects nor taking fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Qiao Liu , Xin Li , Zhenyu He , Nana Fan , Di Yuan , Wei Liu , Yonsheng Liang

Detecting tiny objects plays a vital role in remote sensing intelligent interpretation, as these objects often carry critical information for downstream applications. However, due to the extremely limited pixel information and significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zixiao Wen , Zhen Yang , Xianjie Bao , Lei Zhang , Xiantai Xiang , Wenshuai Li , Yuhan Liu

Existing integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) platforms fail to fully utilize the shared spectrum and aperture resources for sensing, resulting in poor sensing performance. Specifically, weak target sensing on the ISAC platform, such…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Zhuoyang Liu , Yixiang Luomei , Feng Xu

Infrared target tracking plays an important role in both civil and military fields. The main challenges in designing a robust and high-precision tracker for infrared sequences include overlap, occlusion and appearance change. To this end,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Chao Ma , Guohua Gu , Xin Miao , Minjie Wan , Weixian Qian , Kan Ren , Qian Chen

As JPEG is the most widely used image format, the importance of tampering detection for JPEG images in blind forensics is self-evident. In this area, extracting effective statistical characteristics from a JPEG image for classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Cheng Deng , Zhao Li , Xinbo Gao , Dacheng Tao

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has recently benefitted greatly from U-shaped neural models. However, largely overlooking effective global information modeling, existing techniques struggle when the target has high similarities with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Shuai Yuan , Hanlin Qin , Xiang Yan , Naveed AKhtar , Ajmal Mian

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is vital for long-range surveillance in military, maritime, and early warning applications. ISTD is challenged by targets occupying less than 0.15% of the image and low distinguishability from complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Wenhao Xu , Shuchen Zheng , Changwei Wang , Zherui Zhang , Chuan Ren , Rongtao Xu , Shibiao Xu

Infrared small target detection is an important problem in many fields such as earth observation, military reconnaissance, disaster relief, and has received widespread attention recently. This paper presents the Attention-Guided Pyramid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Tianfang Zhang , Siying Cao , Tian Pu , Zhenming Peng

Infrared small target detection(IRSTD) is widely recognized as a challenging task due to the inherent limitations of infrared imaging, including low signal-to-noise ratios, lack of texture details, and complex background interference. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Yuxin Jing , Yuchen Zheng , Jufeng Zhao , Guangmang Cui , Tianpei Zhang

Recently, patch deformation-based methods have demonstrated significant strength in multi-view stereo by adaptively expanding the reception field of patches to help reconstruct textureless areas. However, such methods mainly concentrate on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhenlong Yuan , Cong Liu , Fei Shen , Zhaoxin Li , Jinguo Luo , Tianlu Mao , Zhaoqi Wang

Transformer is beneficial for image denoising tasks since it can model long-range dependencies to overcome the limitations presented by inductive convolutional biases. However, directly applying the transformer structure to remove noise is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Kangliang Liu , Xiangcheng Du , Sijie Liu , Yingbin Zheng , Xingjiao Wu , Cheng Jin

Real-time transportation surveillance is an essential part of the intelligent transportation system (ITS). However, images captured under low-light conditions often suffer the poor visibility with types of degradation, such as noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Jingxiang Qu , Ryan Wen Liu , Yuan Gao , Yu Guo , Fenghua Zhu , Fei-yue Wang

Direction-sensitive WIMP dark matter searches may help overcome the challenges faced by direct dark matter detection experiments. In particular, directional detectors should be able to clearly differentiate a dark matter signal from…

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Early object detection (OD) is a crucial task for the safety of many dynamic systems. Current OD algorithms have limited success for small objects at a long distance. To improve the accuracy and efficiency of such a task, we propose a novel…

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