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Despite advances in object detection, aerial imagery remains a challenging domain, as models often fail to generalize across variations in spatial resolution, scene composition, and semantic label coverage. Differences in geographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Michael Felsberg , Nick Pears , Yue Lu

3D visual grounding (3DVG) aims to locate objects in a 3D scene with natural language descriptions. Supervised methods have achieved decent accuracy, but have a closed vocabulary and limited language understanding ability. Zero-shot methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Qihao Yuan , Kailai Li , Jiaming Zhang

Object detection from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is of great importance in many aerial vision-based applications. Despite the great success of generic object detection methods, a significant performance drop is observed when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Benjamin Kiefer , Martin Messmer , Andreas Zell

Despite recent advancements in computer vision research, object detection in aerial images still suffers from several challenges. One primary challenge to be mitigated is the presence of multiple types of variation in aerial images, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Sungjune Park , Hyunjun Kim , Beomchan Park , Yong Man Ro

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize objects from novel unseen classes without any training data. Recently, structure-transfer based methods are proposed to implement ZSL by transferring structural knowledge from the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Bo Zhao , Xinwei Sun , Yuan Yao , Yizhou Wang

Domain adaptation is crucial in aerial imagery, as the visual representation of these images can significantly vary based on factors such as geographic location, time, and weather conditions. Additionally, high-resolution aerial images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Nanqing Liu , Xun Xu , Yongyi Su , Chengxin Liu , Peiliang Gong , Heng-Chao Li

Semi-supervised object detection (SSOD), leveraging unlabeled data to boost object detectors, has become a hot topic recently. However, existing SSOD approaches mainly focus on horizontal objects, leaving oriented objects common in aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Dingkang Liang , Wei Hua , Chunsheng Shi , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiang Bai

Object encoding and identification are crucial for many robotic tasks such as autonomous exploration and semantic relocalization. Existing works heavily rely on the tracking of detected objects but have difficulty recalling revisited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Kuan Xu , Chen Wang , Chao Chen , Wei Wu , Sebastian Scherer

We propose a novel Generalized Zero-Shot learning (GZSL) method that is agnostic to both unseen images and unseen semantic vectors during training. Prior works in this context propose to map high-dimensional visual features to the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Pengkai Zhu , Hanxiao Wang , Venkatesh Saligrama

This paper proposes a few-shot method based on Faster R-CNN and representation learning for object detection in aerial images. The two classification branches of Faster R-CNN are replaced by prototypical networks for online adaptation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Pierre Le Jeune , Mustapha Lebbah , Anissa Mokraoui , Hanene Azzag

In some of object recognition problems, labeled data may not be available for all categories. Zero-shot learning utilizes auxiliary information (also called signatures) describing each category in order to find a classifier that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Seyed Mohsen Shojaee , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

While methods for monocular depth estimation have made significant strides on standard benchmarks, zero-shot metric depth estimation remains unsolved. Challenges include the joint modeling of indoor and outdoor scenes, which often exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Saurabh Saxena , Junhwa Hur , Charles Herrmann , Deqing Sun , David J. Fleet

The problem of organizing and finding images in a user's directory has become increasingly challenging due to the rapid growth in the number of images captured on personal devices. This paper presents a solution that utilizes zero shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jatin Nainani , Abhishek Mazumdar , Viraj Sheth

Oriented object detection is a challenging task in aerial images since the objects in aerial images are displayed in arbitrary directions and are frequently densely packed. The mainstream detectors describe rotating objects using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Xinyi Yu , Mi Lin , Jiangping Lu , Linlin Ou

Recent multi-camera 3D object detectors usually leverage temporal information to construct multi-view stereo that alleviates the ill-posed depth estimation. However, they typically assume all the objects are static and directly aggregate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Qing Lian , Tai Wang , Dahua Lin , Jiangmiao Pang

Recent advances in object segmentation have demonstrated that deep neural networks excel at object segmentation for specific classes in color and depth images. However, their performance is dictated by the number of classes and objects used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Chahat Deep Singh , Nitin J. Sanket , Chethan M. Parameshwara , Cornelia Fermüller , Yiannis Aloimonos

The goal of this paper is to perform object detection in satellite imagery with only a few examples, thus enabling users to specify any object class with minimal annotation. To this end, we explore recent methods and ideas from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Xavier Bou , Gabriele Facciolo , Rafael Grompone von Gioi , Jean-Michel Morel , Thibaud Ehret

Few-shot object detection has attracted increasing attention and rapidly progressed in recent years. However, the requirement of an exhaustive offline fine-tuning stage in existing methods is time-consuming and significantly hinders their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Bowen Li , Chen Wang , Pranay Reddy , Seungchan Kim , Sebastian Scherer

We propose the new problem of choosing which dense retrieval model to use when searching on a new collection for which no labels are available, i.e. in a zero-shot setting. Many dense retrieval models are readily available. Each model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Ekaterina Khramtsova , Shengyao Zhuang , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Xi Wang , Guido Zuccon

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize objects of novel classes without any training samples of specific classes, which is achieved by exploiting the semantic information and auxiliary datasets. Recently most ZSL approaches focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Huajie Jiang , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen