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Aerial object detection presents challenges from small object sizes, high density clustering, and image quality degradation from distance and motion blur. These factors create an information bottleneck where limited pixel representation…

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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

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) detection technology plays a critical role in mitigating security risks and safeguarding privacy in both military and civilian applications. However, traditional detection methods face significant challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Juanqin Liu , Leonardo Plotegher , Eloy Roura , Cristino de Souza Junior , Shaoming He

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 convolutional neural networks have made outstanding achievements in visible light target detection, there are still many challenges in infrared small object detection because of the low signal-to-noise ratio, incomplete object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Zhonglin Chen , Anyu Geng , Jianan Jiang , Jiwu Lu , Di Wu

Vision-based drone-to-drone detection has attracted increasing attention due to its importance in numerous tasks such as vision-based swarming, aerial see-and-avoid, and malicious drone detection. However, existing methods often encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hanqing Guo , Xiuxiu Lin , Shiyu Zhao

Object detection using images or videos captured by drones is a promising technology with significant potential across various industries. However, a major challenge is that drone images are typically taken from high altitudes, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Hyun-Ki Jung

The area of domain adaptation has been instrumental in addressing the domain shift problem encountered by many applications. This problem arises due to the difference between the distributions of source data used for training in comparison…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Mazin Hnewa , Hayder Radha

Domain shift is a major challenge for object detectors to generalize well to real world applications. Emerging techniques of domain adaptation for two-stage detectors help to tackle this problem. However, two-stage detectors are not the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Shizhao Zhang , Hongya Tuo , Jian Hu , Zhongliang Jing

Despite the breakthrough deep learning performances achieved for automatic object detection, small target detection is still a challenging problem, especially when looking at fast and accurate solutions suitable for mobile or edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Alessandro Betti

Recently, despite the remarkable advancements in object detection, modern detectors still struggle to detect tiny objects in aerial images. One key reason is that tiny objects carry limited features that are inevitably degraded or lost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jinfu Li , Yuqi Huang , Hong Song , Ting Wang , Jianghan Xia , Yucong Lin , Jingfan Fan , Jian Yang

While one-stage detectors like YOLOv8 offer fast training speed, they often under-perform on detecting small objects as a trade-off. This becomes even more critical when detecting tiny objects in aerial imagery due to low-resolution targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Kihyun Kim , Michalis Lazarou , Tania Stathaki

Object detection and localization are crucial tasks for biomedical image analysis, particularly in the field of hematology where the detection and recognition of blood cells are essential for diagnosis and treatment decisions. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Shun Liu , Jianan Zhang , Ruocheng Song , Teik Toe Teoh

We propose a Dynamic Scale Training paradigm (abbreviated as DST) to mitigate scale variation challenge in object detection. Previous strategies like image pyramid, multi-scale training, and their variants are aiming at preparing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Yukang Chen , Peizhen Zhang , Zeming Li , Yanwei Li , Xiangyu Zhang , Lu Qi , Jian Sun , Jiaya Jia

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based Road Damage Detection (RDD) is important for daily maintenance and safety in cities, especially in terms of significantly reducing labor costs. However, current UAV-based RDD research is still faces many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Weichao Pan , Xu Wang , Wenqing Huan

Point cloud sequences are commonly used to accurately detect 3D objects in applications such as autonomous driving. Current top-performing multi-frame detectors mostly follow a Detect-and-Fuse framework, which extracts features from each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Chenhang He , Ruihuang Li , Yabin Zhang , Shuai Li , Lei Zhang

As drone-based object detection technology continues to evolve, the demand is shifting from merely detecting objects to enabling users to accurately identify specific targets. For example, users can input particular targets as prompts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Hyun-Ki Jung

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

Small objects detection is a challenging task in computer vision due to its limited resolution and information. In order to solve this problem, the majority of existing methods sacrifice speed for improvement in accuracy. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Guimei Cao , Xuemei Xie , Wenzhe Yang , Quan Liao , Guangming Shi , Jinjian Wu

Small object detection has been a challenging problem in the field of object detection. There has been some works that proposes improvements for this task, such as adding several attention blocks or changing the whole structure of feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Shiyi Tang , Shu Zhang , Yini Fang