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Object detection has made great progress in the past few years along with the development of deep learning. However, most current object detection methods are resource hungry, which hinders their wide deployment to many resource restricted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Yuxi Li , Jiuwei Li , Weiyao Lin , Jianguo Li

Multi-spectral object Re-identification (ReID) aims to retrieve specific objects by leveraging complementary information from different image spectra. It delivers great advantages over traditional single-spectral ReID in complex visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Yuhao Wang , Xuehu Liu , Pingping Zhang , Hu Lu , Zhengzheng Tu , Huchuan Lu

Object detection is the task of detecting objects in an image. In this task, the detection of small objects is particularly difficult. Other than the small size, it is also accompanied by difficulties due to blur, occlusion, and so on.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Da Huo , Marc A. Kastner , Tingwei Liu , Yasutomo Kawanishi , Takatsugu Hirayama , Takahiro Komamizu , Ichiro Ide

Single Object Tracking in LiDAR point cloud is one of the most essential parts of environmental perception, in which small objects are inevitable in real-world scenarios and will bring a significant barrier to the accurate location.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Shengjing Tian , Yinan Han , Xiuping Liu , Xiantong Zhao

Small object detection under complex backgrounds remains a challenging task due to severe feature degradation, weak semantic representation, and inaccurate localization caused by downsampling operations and background interference. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Wenguang Tao , Xiaotian Wang , Tian Yan , Yi Wang , Jie Yan

In the realm of aerial imaging, the ability to detect small objects is pivotal for a myriad of applications, encompassing environmental surveillance, urban design, and crisis management. Leveraging RetinaNet, this work unveils DDR-Net: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zhicheng Tang , Jinwen Tang , Yi Shang

Automatic detecting anomalous regions in images of objects or textures without priors of the anomalies is challenging, especially when the anomalies appear in very small areas of the images, making difficult-to-detect visual variations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jie Yang , Yong Shi , Zhiquan Qi

Enlarging input images is a straightforward and effective approach to promote small object detection. However, simple image enlargement is significantly expensive on both computations and GPU memory. In fact, small objects are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Kai Liu , Zhihang Fu , Sheng Jin , Ze Chen , Fan Zhou , Rongxin Jiang , Yaowu Chen , Jieping Ye

Object detection as part of computer vision can be crucial for traffic management, emergency response, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities. Despite significant advances in object detection, detecting small objects in images captured by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Boshra Khalili , Andrew W. Smyth

Detecting small objects is notoriously challenging due to their low resolution and noisy representation. Existing object detection pipelines usually detect small objects through learning representations of all the objects at multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Jianan Li , Xiaodan Liang , Yunchao Wei , Tingfa Xu , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

An autonomous system's perception engine must provide an accurate understanding of the environment for it to make decisions. Deep learning based object detection networks experience degradation in the performance and robustness for small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Hemant Kumawat , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

In this paper, we address the problem of detecting small, dense, and overlapping objects, a major challenge in computer vision. Our focus is on reviewing proposed methods based on deep learning supervised approaches. We provide a detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Oussama Messai , Abbass Zein-Eddine , Abdelouahid Bentamou , Mickael Picq , Nicolas Duquesne , Stéphane Puydarrieux , Yann Gavet

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

To address the challenges in UAV object detection, such as complex backgrounds, severe occlusion, dense small objects, and varying lighting conditions,this paper proposes PT-DETR based on RT-DETR, a novel detection algorithm specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Bingcong Huo , Zhiming Wang

Transformers have rapidly gained popularity in computer vision, especially in the field of object recognition and detection. Upon examining the outcomes of state-of-the-art object detection methods, we noticed that transformers consistently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Aref Miri Rekavandi , Shima Rashidi , Farid Boussaid , Stephen Hoefs , Emre Akbas , Mohammed bennamoun

For most of the object detectors based on multi-scale feature maps, the shallow layers are rich in fine spatial information and thus mainly responsible for small object detection. The performance of small object detection, however, is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Lisha Cui , Rui Ma , Pei Lv , Xiaoheng Jiang , Zhimin Gao , Bing Zhou , Mingliang Xu

Small objects have relatively low resolution, the unobvious visual features which are difficult to be extracted, so the existing object detection methods cannot effectively detect small objects, and the detection speed and stability are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Qingcai Wang , Hao Zhang , Xianggong Hong , Qinqin Zhou

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

Region-based object detection infers object regions for one or more categories in an image. Due to the recent advances in deep learning and region proposal methods, object detectors based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Seung-Hwan Bae

A critical object detection task is finetuning an existing model to detect novel objects, but the standard workflow requires bounding box annotations which are time-consuming and expensive to collect. Weakly supervised object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Tyler LaBonte , Yale Song , Xin Wang , Vibhav Vineet , Neel Joshi