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Object detection in remotely sensed satellite pictures is fundamental in many fields such as biophysical, and environmental monitoring. While deep learning algorithms are constantly evolving, they have been mostly implemented and tested on…

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Embedded flight devices with visual capabilities have become essential for a wide range of applications. In aerial image detection, while many existing methods have partially addressed the issue of small target detection, challenges remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Yao Xiao , Tingfa Xu , Yu Xin , Jianan Li

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

Predominant methods for image-based drone detection frequently rely on employing generic object detection algorithms like YOLOv5. While proficient in identifying drones against homogeneous backgrounds, these algorithms often struggle in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Tamara R. Lenhard , Andreas Weinmann , Stefan Jäger , Tobias Koch

Drone detection in visually complex environments remains challenging due to background clutter, small object scale, and camouflage effects. While generic object detectors like YOLO exhibit strong performance in low-texture scenes, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tamara R. Lenhard , Andreas Weinmann , Tobias Koch

Infrared imaging has emerged as a robust solution for urban object detection under low-light and adverse weather conditions, offering significant advantages over traditional visible-light cameras. However, challenges such as class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jiali Zhang , Thomas S. White , Haoliang Zhang , Wenqing Hu , Donald C. Wunsch , Jian Liu

Satellite remote sensing images pose significant challenges for object detection due to their high resolution, complex scenes, and large variations in target scales. To address the insufficient detection accuracy of the YOLOv11n model in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shuaiyu Zhu , Sergey Ablameyko

Unmanned aerial vehicles serve as primary sensing platforms for surveillance, traffic monitoring, and disaster response, making aerial object detection a central problem in applied computer vision. Current detectors struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Sohail Ali Farooqui , Zuhair Ahmed Khan Taha , Mohammed Mudassir Uddin , Shahnawaz Alam

We introduced a high-resolution equirectangular panorama (360-degree, virtual reality) dataset for object detection and propose a multi-projection variant of YOLO detector. The main challenge with equirectangular panorama image are i) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Wenyan Yang , Yanlin Qian , Francesco Cricri , Lixin Fan , Joni-Kristian Kamarainen

Despite the breakthrough deep learning performances achieved for automatic object detection, small target detection is still a challenging problem, especially when looking at fast and accurate solutions suitable for mobile or edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Alessandro Betti

Detecting small objects over large areas remains a significant challenge in satellite imagery analytics. Among the challenges is the sheer number of pixels and geographical extent per image: a single DigitalGlobe satellite image encompasses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Adam Van Etten

Deep learning has made great strides for object detection in images. The detection accuracy and computational cost of object detection depend on the spatial resolution of an image, which may be constrained by both the camera and storage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yu Hao , Haoyang Pei , Yixuan Lyu , Zhongzheng Yuan , John-Ross Rizzo , Yao Wang , Yi Fang

Detection and classification of objects in aerial imagery have several applications like urban planning, crop surveillance, and traffic surveillance. However, due to the lower resolution of the objects and the effect of noise in aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Dheeraj Reddy Pailla , Varghese Kollerathu , Sai Saketh Chennamsetty

The rapid advancement of object detection architectures has positioned single stage detectors as the dominant solution for real-time visual perception. A primary source of computational overhead in these models lies in the deep backbone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Garvit Kumar Mittal , Sahil Tomar , Sandeep Kumar

In recent years, there have been frequent incidents of foreign objects intruding into railway and Airport runways. These objects can include pedestrians, vehicles, animals, and debris. This paper introduces an improved YOLOv5 architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Zongqing Qi , Danqing Ma , Jingyu Xu , Ao Xiang , Hedi Qu

Small object detection has major applications in the fields of UAVs, surveillance, farming and many others. In this work we investigate the performance of state of the art Yolo based object detection models for the task of small object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Muhammed Can Keles , Batuhan Salmanoglu , Mehmet Serdar Guzel , Baran Gursoy , Gazi Erkan Bostanci

Vision-based drone-to-drone detection has attracted increasing attention due to its importance in numerous tasks such as vision-based swarming, aerial see-and-avoid, and malicious drone detection. However, existing methods often encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hanqing Guo , Xiuxiu Lin , Shiyu Zhao

Object detection, a crucial aspect of computer vision, has seen significant advancements in accuracy and robustness. Despite these advancements, practical applications still face notable challenges, primarily the inaccurate detection or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chun-Lin Ji , Tao Yu , Peng Gao , Fei Wang , Ru-Yue Yuan

Object detection in 3D with stereo cameras is an important problem in computer vision, and is particularly crucial in low-cost autonomous mobile robots without LiDARs. Nowadays, most of the best-performing frameworks for stereo 3D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Yuxuan Liu , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing images poses significant challenges due to unstable image quality, small object sizes, complex backgrounds, and environmental occlusions. Small objects, in particular, occupy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xudong Wang , Yaxin Peng , Chaomin Shen