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Model efficiency has become increasingly important in computer vision. In this paper, we systematically study neural network architecture design choices for object detection and propose several key optimizations to improve efficiency.…

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Infrared Small Target Detection (IRSTD) system aims to identify small targets in complex backgrounds. Due to the convolution operation in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), applying traditional CNNs to IRSTD presents challenges, since…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Yirui Chen , Yiming Zhu , Yuxin Jing , Tianpei Zhang , Jufeng Zhao

In image denoising, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can obtain favorable performance on removing spatially invariant noise. However, many of these networks cannot perform well on removing the real noise (i.e. spatially variant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Wencong Wu , Shijie Liu , Yi Zhou , Yungang Zhang , Yu Xiang

3D object detection from LiDAR data for autonomous driving has been making remarkable strides in recent years. Among the state-of-the-art methodologies, encoding point clouds into a bird's eye view (BEV) has been demonstrated to be both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yantao Lu , Xuetao Hao , Yilan Li , Weiheng Chai , Shiqi Sun , Senem Velipasalar

Distributed radar sensors enable robust human activity recognition. However, scaling the number of coordinated nodes introduces challenges in feature extraction from large datasets, and transparent data fusion. We propose an end-to-end…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Mina Shahbazifar , Zolfa Zeinalpour-Yazdi , Matthias Hollick , Arash Asadi , Vahid Jamali

Since convolutional neural networks perform well in learning generalizable image priors from large-scale data, these models have been widely used in image denoising tasks. However, the computational complexity increases dramatically as well…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Yuanfan Zhang , Gen Li , Lei Sun

Object detection is a crucial task for autonomous driving. In addition to requiring high accuracy to ensure safety, object detection for autonomous driving also requires real-time inference speed to guarantee prompt vehicle control, as well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Bichen Wu , Alvin Wan , Forrest Iandola , Peter H. Jin , Kurt Keutzer

Deep learning has been constantly improving in recent years and a significant number of researchers have devoted themselves to the research of defect detection algorithms. Detection and recognition of small and complex targets is still a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir , Hyunsik Ahn

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

Change detection, i.e. identification per pixel of changes for some classes of interest from a set of bi-temporal co-registered images, is a fundamental task in the field of remote sensing. It remains challenging due to unrelated forms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Foivos I. Diakogiannis , François Waldner , Peter Caccetta

Medical image segmentation plays a pivotal role in automated diagnostic and treatment planning systems. In this work, we present DAUNet, a novel lightweight UNet variant that integrates Deformable V2 Convolutions and Parameter-Free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Adnan Munir , Muhammad Shahid Jabbar , Shujaat Khan

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have long been the cornerstone of target detection, but they are often limited by limited receptive fields, which hinders their ability to capture global contextual information. We re-examined the…

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In the realm of construction safety, the detection of personal protective equipment, such as helmets, plays a critical role in preventing workplace injuries. This paper details the development and evaluation of convolutional neural networks…

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A ResNet-based multi-path refinement CNN is used for object contour detection. For this task, we prioritise the effective utilization of the high-level abstraction capability of a ResNet, which leads to state-of-the-art results for edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Andre Peter Kelm , Vijesh Soorya Rao , Udo Zoelzer

One of the most pressing challenges prevalent in the steel manufacturing industry is the identification of surface defects. Early identification of casting defects can help boost performance, including streamlining production processes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Rohit Lal , Bharath Kumar Bolla , Sabeesh Ethiraj

Recently, outstanding identification rates in image classification tasks were achieved by convolutional neural networks (CNNs). to use such skills, selective CNNs trained on a dataset of well-known images of metal surface defects captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Nadeem Jabbar Chaudhry , M. Bilal Khan , M. Javaid Iqbal , Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir

Change detection is a crucial and widely applied task in remote sensing, aimed at identifying and analyzing changes occurring in the same geographical area over time. Due to variability in acquisition conditions, bi-temporal remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Fan Wu , Sijun Dong , Xiaoliang Meng

The superior performance of Deformable Convolutional Networks arises from its ability to adapt to the geometric variations of objects. Through an examination of its adaptive behavior, we observe that while the spatial support for its neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Xizhou Zhu , Han Hu , Stephen Lin , Jifeng 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

While self-attention mechanism has shown promising results for many vision tasks, it only considers the current features at a time. We show that such a manner cannot take full advantage of the attention mechanism. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Xu Ma , Jingda Guo , Sihai Tang , Zhinan Qiao , Qi Chen , Qing Yang , Song Fu