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Object detection in remote sensing images relies on a large amount of labeled data for training. However, the increasing number of new categories and class imbalance make exhaustive annotation impractical. Few-shot object detection (FSOD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Nanqing Liu , Xun Xu , Turgay Celik , Zongxin Gan , Heng-Chao Li

Detecting small, densely distributed objects is a significant challenge: small objects often contain less distinctive information compared to larger ones, and finer-grained precision of bounding box boundaries are required. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Zhenhua Chen , David Crandall , Robert Templeman

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

As mobile computing technology rapidly evolves, deploying efficient object detection algorithms on mobile devices emerges as a pivotal research area in computer vision. This study zeroes in on optimizing the YOLOv7 algorithm to boost its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Wenkai Gong

Tiny object detection is one of the key challenges in the field of object detection. The performance of most generic detectors dramatically decreases in tiny object detection tasks. The main challenge lies in extracting effective features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Bing Cao , Haiyu Yao , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu

A novel object detection method is presented that handles freely rotated objects of arbitrary sizes, including tiny objects as small as $2\times 2$ pixels. Such tiny objects appear frequently in remotely sensed images, and present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Mohsen Zand , Ali Etemad , Michael Greenspan

In recent years, there has been tremendous progress in object detection performance. However, despite these advances, the detection performance for small objects is significantly inferior to that of large objects. Detecting small objects is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 DaeEun Yoon , Semin Kim , SangWook Yoo , Jongha Lee

In this paper, we address the problem of detecting small, dense, and overlapping objects, a major challenge in computer vision. Our focus is on reviewing proposed methods based on deep learning supervised approaches. We provide a detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Oussama Messai , Abbass Zein-Eddine , Abdelouahid Bentamou , Mickael Picq , Nicolas Duquesne , Stéphane Puydarrieux , Yann Gavet

Object detection is an essential and fundamental task in computer vision and satellite image processing. Existing deep learning methods have achieved impressive performance thanks to the availability of large-scale annotated datasets. Yet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Fahong Zhang , Yilei Shi , Zhitong Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Challenges in remote sensing object detection(RSOD), such as high interclass similarity, imbalanced foreground-background distribution, and the small size of objects in remote sensing images, significantly hinder detection accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yujie Lei , Wenjie Sun , Sen Jia , Qingquan Li , Jie Zhang

In unmanned aerial systems, especially in complex environments, accurately detecting tiny objects is crucial. Resizing images is a common strategy to improve detection accuracy, particularly for small objects. However, simply enlarging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Luqi Gong , Haotian Chen , Yikun Chen , Tianliang Yao , Chao Li , Shuai Zhao , Guangjie Han

Small object detection (SOD) is a critical yet challenging task in computer vision, with applications like spanning surveillance, autonomous systems, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Unlike larger objects, small objects contain limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Mahya Nikouei , Bita Baroutian , Shahabedin Nabavi , Fateme Taraghi , Atefe Aghaei , Ayoob Sajedi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

A critical object detection task is finetuning an existing model to detect novel objects, but the standard workflow requires bounding box annotations which are time-consuming and expensive to collect. Weakly supervised object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Tyler LaBonte , Yale Song , Xin Wang , Vibhav Vineet , Neel Joshi

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.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Mingxing Tan , Ruoming Pang , Quoc V. Le

In this paper, we deal with the problem of object detection on remote sensing images. Previous methods have developed numerous deep CNN-based methods for object detection on remote sensing images and the report remarkable achievements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Jingyu Deng , Xiang Li , Yi Fang

Wood defect detection is critical for ensuring quality control in the wood processing industry. However, current industrial applications face two major challenges: traditional methods are costly, subjective, and labor-intensive, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Jincheng Kang , Yi Cen , Yigang Cen , Ke Wang , Yuhan Liu

For the ore particle size detection, obtaining a sizable amount of high-quality ore labeled data is time-consuming and expensive. General object detection methods often suffer from severe over-fitting with scarce labeled data. Despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yang Zhang , Le Cheng , Yuting Peng , Chengming Xu , Yanwei Fu , Bo Wu , Guodong Sun

Few-shot object detection, the problem of modelling novel object detection categories with few training instances, is an emerging topic in the area of few-shot learning and object detection. Contemporary techniques can be divided into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Berkan Demirel , Orhun Buğra Baran , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

Object detection is a major challenge in computer vision, involving both object classification and object localization within a scene. While deep neural networks have been shown in recent years to yield very powerful techniques for tackling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Alexander Wong , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Francis Li , Brendan Chwyl

Small object detection via UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) images captured from drones and radar is a complex task with several formidable challenges. This domain encompasses numerous complexities that impede the accurate detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Vipin Gautam , Shitala Prasad , Sharad Sinha