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Infrared target detection (IRSTD) tasks have critical applications in areas like wilderness rescue and maritime search. However, detecting infrared targets is challenging due to their low contrast and tendency to blend into complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zikai Liao , Zhaozheng Yin

Street Scene Change Detection (SSCD) aims to locate the changed regions between a given street-view image pair captured at different times, which is an important yet challenging task in the computer vision community. The intuitive way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-30 Yinjie Lei , Duo Peng , Pingping Zhang , Qiuhong Ke , Haifeng Li

In frame-based vision, object detection faces substantial performance degradation under challenging conditions due to the limited sensing capability of conventional cameras. Event cameras output sparse and asynchronous events, providing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Hu Cao , Zehua Zhang , Yan Xia , Xinyi Li , Jiahao Xia , Guang Chen , Alois Knoll

In this paper, we introduce a machine learning approach to the problem of infrared small target detection filter design. For this purpose, similarly to a convolutional layer of a neural network, the normalized-cross-correlational (NCC)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 H. Seçkin Demir , Erdem Akagunduz

Detecting objects in aerial images confronts some significant challenges, including small size, dense and non-uniform distribution of objects over high-resolution images, which makes detection inefficient. Thus, in this paper, we proposed a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zhangjian Ji , Huijia Yan , Shaotong Qiao , Kai Feng , Wei Wei

Although much significant progress has been made in the research field of object detection with deep learning, there still exists a challenging task for the objects with small size, which is notably pronounced in UAV-captured images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yingjie Liu

The past few years have witnessed the immense success of object detection, while current excellent detectors struggle on tackling size-limited instances. Concretely, the well-known challenge of low overlaps between the priors and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Xiang Yuan , Gong Cheng , Kebing Yan , Qinghua Zeng , Junwei Han

Infrared small target detection plays a vital role in remote sensing, industrial monitoring, and various civilian applications. Despite recent progress powered by deep learning, many end-to-end convolutional models tend to pursue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zihao Xiong , Fei Zhou , Fengyi Wu , Shuai Yuan , Maixia Fu , Zhenming Peng , Jian Yang , Yimian Dai

Learning-based infrared small object detection methods currently rely heavily on the classification backbone network. This tends to result in tiny object loss and feature distinguishability limitations as the network depth increases.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Xin Wu , Danfeng Hong , Jocelyn Chanussot

Single-frame infrared small target (SIRST) detection aims at separating small targets from clutter backgrounds. With the advances of deep learning, CNN-based methods have yielded promising results in generic object detection due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Boyang Li , Chao Xiao , Longguang Wang , Yingqian Wang , Zaiping Lin , Miao Li , Wei An , Yulan Guo

Hyperspectral change detection (HCD) is one of the core applications of remote sensing images, holding significant research value in fields like environmental monitoring and disaster assessment. However, existing methods often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mingshuai Sheng , Bhatti Uzair Aslam , Junfeng Zhang , Siling Feng , Yonis Gulzar

In natural images, the scales (thickness) of object skeletons may dramatically vary among objects and object parts, making object skeleton detection a challenging problem. We present a new convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Kai Zhao , Wei Shen , Shanghua Gao , Dandan Li , Ming-Ming Cheng

This paper presents a modular lightweight network model for road objects detection, such as car, pedestrian and cyclist, especially when they are far away from the camera and their sizes are small. Great advances have been made for the deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Sen Cao , Yazhou Liu , Pongsak Lasang , Shengmei Shen

Infrared and visible image fusion has emerged as a prominent research area in computer vision. However, little attention has been paid to the fusion task in complex scenes, leading to sub-optimal results under interference. To fill this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xilai Li , Xiaosong Li , Tianshu Tan , Huafeng Li , Tao Ye

Change detection (CD) has extensive applications and is a crucial method for identifying and localizing target changes. In recent years, various CD methods represented by convolutional neural network (CNN) and transformer have achieved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Chengming Wang , Peng Duan , Jinjiang Li

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a pivotal role in a broad spectrum of mission-critical applications, including maritime surveillance, military search and rescue, early warning systems, and precision-guided strikes, all of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yingming Zhang , Wuqi Su , Qing Xiao , Yonggang Yang

Small object detection is challenging because small objects do not contain detailed information and may even disappear in the deep network. Usually, feeding high-resolution images into a network can alleviate this issue. However, simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Ziming Liu , Guangyu Gao , Lin Sun , Zhiyuan Fang

Existing multi-focus image fusion (MFIF) methods often fail to preserve the uncertain transition region and detect small focus areas within large defocused regions accurately. To address this issue, this study proposes a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Xilai Li , Xiaosong Li , Haishu Tan , Jinyang Li

Multispectral object detection aims to leverage complementary information from visible (RGB) and infrared (IR) modalities to enable robust performance under diverse environmental conditions. Our key insight, derived from wavelet analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Seongmin Hwang , Daeyoung Han , Moongu Jeon

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) aims to identify and distinguish small targets from complex backgrounds. Leveraging the powerful multi-scale feature fusion capability of the U-Net architecture, IRSTD has achieved significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yingmei Zhang , Wangtao Bao , Yong Yang , Weiguo Wan , Qin Xiao , Xueting Zou