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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are crucial in Search and Rescue (SAR) missions due to their ability to monitor vast maritime areas. However, small objects often remain difficult to detect from high altitudes due to low object-to-background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sakib Ahmed , Oscar Pizarro

A Flying Bird Object Detection algorithm Based on Motion Information (FBOD-BMI) is proposed to solve the problem that the features of the object are not obvious in a single frame, and the size of the object is small (low Signal-to-Noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ziwei Sun , Zexi Hua , Hengcao Li , Haiyan Zhong

Now a days, UAVs such as drones are greatly used for various purposes like that of capturing and target detection from ariel imagery etc. Easy access of these small ariel vehicles to public can cause serious security threats. For instance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Aleena Ajaz , Ayesha Salar , Tauseef Jamal , Asif Ullah Khan

Visuals captured by high-flying aerial drones are increasingly used to assess biodiversity and animal population dynamics around the globe. Yet, challenging acquisition scenarios and tiny animal depictions in airborne imagery, despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Mowen Xue , Theo Greenslade , Majid Mirmehdi , Tilo Burghardt

Detecting small drones, often indistinguishable from birds, is crucial for modern surveillance. This work introduces a drone detection methodology built upon the medium-sized YOLOv11 object detection model. To enhance its performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rayson Laroca , Marcelo dos Santos , David Menotti

Accurate 3D object detection from point clouds has become a crucial component in autonomous driving. However, the volumetric representations and the projection methods in previous works fail to establish the relationships between the local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Qingdong He , Zhengning Wang , Hao Zeng , Yi Zeng , Yijun Liu

Weakly supervised oriented object detection (WS-OOD) has gained attention as a cost-effective alternative to fully supervised methods, providing both efficiency and high accuracy. Among weakly supervised approaches, horizontal bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Woojin Lee , Hyugjae Chang , Jaeho Moon , Jaehyup Lee , Munchurl Kim

This paper investigates and develops methods for detecting small objects in large-scale aerial images. Current approaches for detecting small objects in aerial images often involve image cropping and modifications to detector network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mahila Moghadami , Mohammad Ali Keyvanrad , Melika Sabaghian

Detection identifies objects as axis-aligned boxes in an image. Most successful object detectors enumerate a nearly exhaustive list of potential object locations and classify each. This is wasteful, inefficient, and requires additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Xingyi Zhou , Dequan Wang , Philipp Krähenbühl

Conventional methods for object detection typically require a substantial amount of training data and preparing such high-quality training data is very labor-intensive. In this paper, we propose a novel few-shot object detection network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Qi Fan , Wei Zhuo , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

Object detection is a critical field in computer vision focusing on accurately identifying and locating specific objects in images or videos. Traditional methods for object detection rely on large labeled training datasets for each object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Vishal Chudasama , Hiran Sarkar , Pankaj Wasnik , Vineeth N Balasubramanian , Jayateja Kalla

Efficient generation of high-quality object proposals is an essential step in state-of-the-art object detection systems based on deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) features. Current object proposal algorithms are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Yongxi Lu , Tara Javidi

Object detection is essential in space applications targeting Space Domain Awareness and also applications involving relative navigation scenarios. Current deep learning models for Object Detection in space applications are often trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Samet Hicsonmez , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Arunkumar Rathinam , Djamila Aouada

As airborne vehicles are becoming more autonomous and ubiquitous, it has become vital to develop the capability to detect the objects in their surroundings. This paper attempts to address the problem of drones detection from other flying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Muhammad Waseem Ashraf , Waqas Sultani , Mubarak Shah

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) has gained extensive attention in recent years due to its potential applications in traffic and pedestrian detection. We note that tracking by detection may suffer from errors generated by noise detectors, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 ZongTan Li

Automatic detection of firearms is important for enhancing the security and safety of people, however, it is a challenging task owing to the wide variations in shape, size, and appearance of firearms. Also, most of the generic object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Javed Iqbal , Muhammad Akhtar Munir , Arif Mahmood , Afsheen Rafaqat Ali , Mohsen Ali

Existing oriented object detection methods commonly use metric AP$_{50}$ to measure the performance of the model. We argue that AP$_{50}$ is inherently unsuitable for oriented object detection due to its large tolerance in angle deviation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Ying Zeng , Yushi Chen , Xue Yang , Qingyun Li , Junchi Yan

We present a method for 3D object detection and pose estimation from a single image. In contrast to current techniques that only regress the 3D orientation of an object, our method first regresses relatively stable 3D object properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Arsalan Mousavian , Dragomir Anguelov , John Flynn , Jana Kosecka

3D object detection plays an important role in a large number of real-world applications. It requires us to estimate the localizations and the orientations of 3D objects in real scenes. In this paper, we present a new network architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Xin Zhao , Zhe Liu , Ruolan Hu , Kaiqi Huang

Arbitrary-oriented object detection has been a building block for rotation sensitive tasks. We first show that the boundary problem suffered in existing dominant regression-based rotation detectors, is caused by angular periodicity or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Xue Yang , Junchi Yan