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Recently, infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has been dominated by deep-learning-based methods. However, these methods mainly focus on the design of complex model structures to extract discriminative features, leaving the loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Qiankun Liu , Rui Liu , Bolun Zheng , Hongkui Wang , Ying Fu

Infrared small target detection presents significant challenges due to the limited intrinsic features of the target and the overwhelming presence of visually similar background distractors. We contend that background semantics are critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Mengxuan Xiao , Yinfei Zhu , Yiming Zhu , Boyang Li , Feifei Zhang , Huan Wang , Meng Cai , Yimian Dai

Despite the great progress made by deep neural networks in the semantic segmentation task, traditional neural-networkbased methods typically suffer from a shortage of large amounts of pixel-level annotations. Recent progress in fewshot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Shuo Lei , Xuchao Zhang , Jianfeng He , Fanglan Chen , Chang-Tien Lu

Deep neural networks deliver state-of-the-art visual recognition, but they rely on large datasets, which are time-consuming to annotate. These datasets are typically annotated in two stages: (1) determining the presence of object classes at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Michael Gygli , Vittorio Ferrari

Automated object detection has become increasingly valuable across diverse applications, yet efficient, high-quality annotation remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we present the development and evaluation of a platform designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Sönke Tenckhoff , Mario Koddenbrock , Erik Rodner

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) is critical for applications like remote sensing and surveillance, which aims to identify small, low-contrast targets against complex backgrounds. However, existing methods often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Shuying Li , Qiang Ma , San Zhang , Chuang Yang

Accurate school detection is essential for supporting education initiatives, including infrastructure planning and expanding internet connectivity to underserved areas. However, many regions around the world face challenges due to outdated,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zakarya Elmimouni , Fares Fourati , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Sparse annotation in remote sensing object detection poses significant challenges due to dense object distributions and category imbalances. Although existing Dense Pseudo-Label methods have demonstrated substantial potential in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wei Liao , Chunyan Xu , Chenxu Wang , Zhen Cui

Annotating bounding boxes for object detection is expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone. In this work, we propose a DETR based framework called ComplETR that is designed to explicitly complete missing annotations in partially annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Achin Jain , Kibok Lee , Gurumurthy Swaminathan , Hao Yang , Bernt Schiele , Avinash Ravichandran , Onkar Dabeer

A precise, controllable, interpretable and easily trainable text removal approach is necessary for both user-specific and large-scale text removal applications. To achieve this, we propose a one-stage mask-based text inpainting network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Osman Tursun , Simon Denman , Rui Zeng , Sabesan Sivapalan , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

In this paper, we propose a new approach to applying point-level annotations for weakly-supervised panoptic segmentation. Instead of the dense pixel-level labels used by fully supervised methods, point-level labels only provide a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Junsong Fan , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan

Recently, single-frame infrared small target (SIRST) detection with single point supervision has drawn wide-spread attention. However, the latest label evolution with single point supervision (LESPS) framework suffers from instability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Chuang Yu , Jinmiao Zhao , Yunpeng Liu , Sicheng Zhao , Yimian Dai , Xiangyu Yue

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) has been a critical technology in defense and civilian applications over the past several decades, such as missile warning, maritime surveillance, and disaster monitoring. Nevertheless, moving infrared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yian Huang , Qing Qin , Aji Mao , Xiangyu Qiu , Liang Xu , Xian Zhang , Zhenming Peng

We study the task of weakly-supervised point cloud semantic segmentation with sparse annotations (e.g., less than 0.1% points are labeled), aiming to reduce the expensive cost of dense annotations. Unfortunately, with extremely sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Lizhao Liu , Zhuangwei Zhuang , Shangxin Huang , Xunlong Xiao , Tianhang Xiang , Cen Chen , Jingdong Wang , Mingkui Tan

We pioneer a learning-based single-point prompt paradigm for infrared small target label generation (IRSTLG) to lobber annotation burdens. Unlike previous clustering-based methods, our intuition is that point-guided mask generation just…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Shuai Yuan , Hanlin Qin , Renke Kou , Xiang Yan , Zechuan Li , Chenxu Peng , Huixin Zhou

Point annotations are considerably more time-efficient than bounding box annotations. However, how to use cheap point annotations to boost the performance of semi-supervised object detection remains largely unsolved. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yongtao Ge , Qiang Zhou , Xinlong Wang , Zhibin Wang , Hao Li , Chunhua Shen

To mitigate the issue of minimal intrinsic features for pure data-driven methods, in this paper, we propose a novel model-driven deep network for infrared small target detection, which combines discriminative networks and conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Yimian Dai , Yiquan Wu , Fei Zhou , Kobus Barnard

Outdoor LiDAR point cloud 3D instance segmentation is a crucial task in autonomous driving. However, it requires laborious human efforts to annotate the point cloud for training a segmentation model. To address this challenge, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Guangfeng Jiang , Jun Liu , Yongxuan Lv , Yuzhi Wu , Xianfei Li , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

Point-based interactive image segmentation can ease the burden of mask annotation in applications such as semantic segmentation and image editing. However, fully extracting the target mask with limited user inputs remains challenging. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Chaowei Fang , Ziyin Zhou , Junye Chen , Hanjing Su , Qingyao Wu , Guanbin Li

Deep neural network-based semantic segmentation generally requires large-scale cost extensive annotations for training to obtain better performance. To avoid pixel-wise segmentation annotations which are needed for most methods, recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Longlong Jing , Yucheng Chen , Yingli Tian