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Detecting oriented tiny objects, which are limited in appearance information yet prevalent in real-world applications, remains an intricate and under-explored problem. To address this, we systemically introduce a new dataset, benchmark, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Chang Xu , Ruixiang Zhang , Wen Yang , Haoran Zhu , Fang Xu , Jian Ding , Gui-Song Xia

Despite notable advancements in the field of computer vision, the precise detection of tiny objects continues to pose a significant challenge, largely owing to the minuscule pixel representation allocated to these objects in imagery data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Hou-I Liu , Yu-Wen Tseng , Kai-Cheng Chang , Pin-Jyun Wang , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Detecting tiny objects plays a vital role in remote sensing intelligent interpretation, as these objects often carry critical information for downstream applications. However, due to the extremely limited pixel information and significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zixiao Wen , Zhen Yang , Xianjie Bao , Lei Zhang , Xiantai Xiang , Wenshuai Li , Yuhan Liu

Tiny object detection plays a vital role in drone surveillance, remote sensing, and autonomous systems, enabling the identification of small targets across vast landscapes. However, existing methods suffer from inefficient feature leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Zhangchi Hu , Peixi Wu , Jie Chen , Huyue Zhu , Yijun Wang , Yansong Peng , Hebei Li , Xiaoyan Sun

Small object detection (SOD) is a critical yet challenging task in computer vision, with applications like spanning surveillance, autonomous systems, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Unlike larger objects, small objects contain limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Mahya Nikouei , Bita Baroutian , Shahabedin Nabavi , Fateme Taraghi , Atefe Aghaei , Ayoob Sajedi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

Detection Transformer-based methods have achieved significant advancements in general object detection. However, challenges remain in effectively detecting small objects. One key difficulty is that existing encoders struggle to efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Huaxiang Zhang , Hao Zhang , Aoran Mei , Zhongxue Gan , Guo-Niu Zhu

This survey paper specially analyzed computer vision-based object detection challenges and solutions by different techniques. We mainly highlighted object detection by three different trending strategies, i.e., 1) domain adaptive deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Muhammed Muzammul , Xi Li

The main challenge for small object detection algorithms is to ensure accuracy while pursuing real-time performance. The RT-DETR model performs well in real-time object detection, but performs poorly in small object detection accuracy. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ji Huang , Hui Wang

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

Tiny object detection in remote sensing imagery has attracted significant research interest in recent years. Despite recent progress, achieving balanced detection performance across diverse object scales remains a formidable challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhicheng Zhao , Yin Huang , Lingma Sun , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang

While deep learning-based general object detection has made significant strides in recent years, the effectiveness and efficiency of small object detection remain unsatisfactory. This is primarily attributed not only to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zile Huang , Chong Zhang , Mingyu Jin , Fangyu Wu , Chengzhi Liu , Xiaobo Jin

Small object detection presents a significant challenge in computer vision and object detection. The performance of small object detectors is often compromised by a lack of pixels and less significant features. This issue stems from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xiaohui Guo

Camouflaged object detection (COD) primarily relies on semantic or instance segmentation methods. While these methods have made significant advancements in identifying the contours of camouflaged objects, they may be inefficient or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhimeng Xin , Tianxu Wu , Shiming Chen , Shuo Ye , Zijing Xie , Yixiong Zou , Xinge You , Yufei Guo

Small object detection remains a challenging problem in the field of object detection. To address this challenge, we propose an enhanced YOLOv8-based model, SOD-YOLO. This model integrates an ASF mechanism in the neck to enhance multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Peijun Wang , Jinhua Zhao

Small object detection (SOD) remains challenging due to extremely limited pixels and ambiguous object boundaries. These characteristics lead to challenging annotation, limited availability of large-scale high-quality datasets, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haoran Zhu , Wen Yang , Guangyou Yang , Chang Xu , Ruixiang Zhang , Fang Xu , Haijian Zhang , Gui-Song Xia

Object detection is a major challenge in computer vision, involving both object classification and object localization within a scene. While deep neural networks have been shown in recent years to yield very powerful techniques for tackling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Alexander Wong , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Francis Li , Brendan Chwyl

Detecting tiny objects in remote sensing (RS) imagery has been a long-standing challenge due to their extremely limited spatial information, weak feature representations, and dense distributions across complex backgrounds. Despite numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Xiaozheng Jiang , Wei Zhang , Xuerui Mao

With the rise of deep convolutional neural networks, object detection has achieved prominent advances in past years. However, such prosperity could not camouflage the unsatisfactory situation of Small Object Detection (SOD), one of the…

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

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

The vast number of existing IP cameras in current road networks is an opportunity to take advantage of the captured data and analyze the video and detect any significant events. For this purpose, it is necessary to detect moving vehicles, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Iván García , Rafael Marcos Luque , Ezequiel López
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