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Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) yields high-resolution images with a large number of extremely small objects. Target objects have large spatial displacements throughout consecutive frames. This nature of WAMI images makes object tracking…

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Object detection in optical remote sensing images is an important and challenging task. In recent years, the methods based on convolutional neural networks have made good progress. However, due to the large variation in object scale, aspect…

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Due to the limitation of the optical lens focal length and the resolution of the infrared detector, distant Closely-Spaced Infrared Small Target (CSIST) groups typically appear as mixing spots in the infrared image. In this paper, we…

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Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a crucial role in numerous military and civilian applications. However, existing methods often face the gradual degradation of target edge pixels as the number of network layers increases, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Shuying Li , Qiang Ma , San Zhang , Wuwei Wang , Chuang Yang

In the current salient object detection network, the most popular method is using U-shape structure. However, the massive number of parameters leads to more consumption of computing and storage resources which are not feasible to deploy on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Bin Zhang , Yang Wu , Xiaojing Zhang , Ming Ma

Multi-modality image fusion aims at fusing modality-specific (complementarity) and modality-shared (correlation) information from multiple source images. To tackle the problem of the neglect of inter-feature relationships, high-frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xiaoli Zhang , Liying Wang , Libo Zhao , Xiongfei Li , Siwei Ma

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is widely used in civilian and military applications. However, ISTD encounters several challenges, including the tendency for small and dim targets to be obscured by complex backgrounds. To address…

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Image operation chain detection techniques have gained increasing attention recently in the field of multimedia forensics. However, existing detection methods suffer from the generalization problem. Moreover, the channel correlation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Yakun Niu , Lei Tan , Lei Zhang , Xianyu Zuo

Camouflaged object detection (COD) presents a persistent challenge in accurately identifying objects that seamlessly blend into their surroundings. However, most existing COD models overlook the fact that visual systems operate within a…

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Automatic detection of abnormal cervical cells from Thinprep Cytologic Test (TCT) images is a critical component in the development of intelligent computer-aided diagnostic systems. However, existing algorithms typically fail to effectively…

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Multi-frame infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a crucial role in low-altitude and maritime surveillance. The hybrid architecture combining CNNs and Transformers shows great promise for enhancing multi-frame IRSTD performance. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zhihua Shen , Siyang Chen , Han Wang , Tongsu Zhang , Xiaohu Zhang , Xiangpeng Xu , Xia Yang

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) plays a critical role in a wide range of civilian and military applications. Existing methods suffer from deficiencies in the localization of dim targets and the perception of contour information under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Jiakun Deng , Kexuan Li , Xingye Cui , Jiaxuan Li , Chang Long , Tian Pu , Zhenming Peng

The introduction of Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) has significantly improved object detection performance. However, substantial challenges remain in detecting tiny objects, as their features occupy only a very small proportion of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Zican Shi , Jing Hu , Jie Ren , Hengkang Ye , Xuyang Yuan , Yan Ouyang , Jia He , Bo Ji , Junyu Guo

Remote sensor image object detection is an important technology for Earth observation, and is used in various tasks such as forest fire monitoring and ocean monitoring. Image object detection technology, despite the significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Gu Lingyun , Eugene Popov , Dong Ge

Benefiting from the developments in deep learning technology, deep-learning-based algorithms employing automatic feature extraction have achieved remarkable performance on the change detection (CD) task. However, the performance of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chengxi Han , Chen Wu , Haonan Guo , Meiqi Hu , Hongruixuan Chen

We propose the Compact Clustering Attention (COCA) layer, an effective building block that introduces a hierarchical strategy for object-centric representation learning, while solving the unsupervised object discovery task on single images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Can Küçüksözen , Yücel Yemez

Small object detection in complex scenes exposes a fundamental tension in neural network design: backbone attention distributes computation uniformly regardless of content, pyramid necks inflate activation magnitudes during upsampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Bo Gao , Jingcheng Tong , Xingsheng Chen , Han Yu , Zichen Li

Infrared small target detection is crucial for remote sensing applications like disaster warning and maritime surveillance. However, due to the lack of distinctive texture and morphological features, infrared small targets are highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jiayi Zuo , Songwei Pei , Qian Li

Small targets are often submerged in cluttered backgrounds of infrared images. Conventional detectors tend to generate false alarms, while CNN-based detectors lose small targets in deep layers. To this end, we propose iSmallNet, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Zhiheng Hu , Yongzhen Wang , Peng Li , Jie Qin , Haoran Xie , Mingqiang Wei