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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

In recent years, object detection has experienced impressive progress. Despite these improvements, there is still a significant gap in the performance between the detection of small and large objects. We analyze the current state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Mate Kisantal , Zbigniew Wojna , Jakub Murawski , Jacek Naruniec , Kyunghyun Cho

Early object detection (OD) is a crucial task for the safety of many dynamic systems. Current OD algorithms have limited success for small objects at a long distance. To improve the accuracy and efficiency of such a task, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Tianyi Zhang , Kishore Kasichainula , Yaoxin Zhuo , Baoxin Li , Jae-Sun Seo , Yu Cao

RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) has been in the spotlight recently because it is an important preprocessing operation for various vision tasks. However, despite advances in deep learning-based methods, RGB-D SOD is still challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Minhyeok Lee , Chaewon Park , Suhwan Cho , Sangyoun Lee

In this paper, we present an Improved Data Augmentation (IDA) technique focused on Salient Object Detection (SOD). Standard data augmentation techniques proposed in the literature, such as image cropping, rotation, flipping, and resizing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Daniel V. Ruiz , Bruno A. Krinski , Eduardo Todt

Traditional deep learning-based object detection networks often resize images during the data preprocessing stage to achieve a uniform size and scale in the feature map. Resizing is done to facilitate model propagation and fully connected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Weile Li , Muqing Shi , Zhonghua Hong

The aim of this research is to detect small objects with low resolution and noise. The existing real time object detection algorithm is based on the deep neural network of convolution need to perform multilevel convolution and pooling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Al-Akhir Nayan , Joyeta Saha , Ahamad Nokib Mozumder , Khan Raqib Mahmud , Abul Kalam Al Azad

Salient object detection (SOD) in remote sensing images faces significant challenges due to large variations in object sizes, the computational cost of self-attention mechanisms, and the limitations of CNN-based extractors in capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Bin Wan , Runmin Cong , Xiaofei Zhou , Hao Fang , Yaoqi Sun , Sam Kwong

Object detection in satellite-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery holds immense potential in tasks such as urban monitoring and disaster response. However, the inherent complexities of SAR data and the scarcity of annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yasin Almalioglu , Andrzej Kucik , Geoffrey French , Dafni Antotsiou , Alexander Adam , Cedric Archambeau

For a long time, object detectors have suffered from extreme imbalance between foregrounds and backgrounds. While several sampling/reweighting schemes have been explored to alleviate the imbalance, they are usually heuristic and demand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Joya Chen , Dong Liu , Bin Luo , Xuezheng Peng , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

In this paper, we establish a baseline for object reflection symmetry detection in complex backgrounds by presenting a new benchmark and an end-to-end deep learning approach, opening up a promising direction for symmetry detection in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Wei Ke , Jie Chen , Jianbin Jiao , Guoying Zhao , Qixiang Ye

Developing deep learning models that effectively learn object-centric representations, akin to human cognition, remains a challenging task. Existing approaches facilitate object discovery by representing objects as fixed-size vectors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Aniket Didolkar , Anirudh Goyal , Yoshua Bengio

Learning in data-scarce settings has recently gained significant attention in the research community. Semi-supervised object detection(SSOD) aims to improve detection performance by leveraging a large number of unlabeled images alongside a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Chaoxin Wang , Bharaneeshwar Balasubramaniyam , Anurag Sangem , Nicolais Guevara , Doina Caragea

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

The global and local contexts significantly contribute to the integrity of predictions in Salient Object Detection (SOD). Unfortunately, existing methods still struggle to generate complete predictions with fine details. There are two major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yi Ke Yun , Weisi Lin

Recent Salient Object Detection (SOD) systems are mostly based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Specifically, Deeply Supervised Saliency (DSS) system has shown it is very useful to add short connections to the network and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Sen Jia , Neil D. B. Bruce

Efficient and accurate object detection is an important topic in the development of computer vision systems. With the advent of deep learning techniques, the accuracy of object detection has increased significantly. The project aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Md Pranto , Omar Faruk

In this paper, we propose a novel self-training approach named Crowd-SDNet that enables a typical object detector trained only with point-level annotations (i.e., objects are labeled with points) to estimate both the center points and sizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Yi Wang , Junhui Hou , Xinyu Hou , Lap-Pui Chau

Fine-grained object recognition concerns the identification of the type of an object among a large number of closely related sub-categories. Multisource data analysis, that aims to leverage the complementary spectral, spatial, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Gencer Sumbul , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Selim Aksoy

In this paper, we propose an efficient feature pruning strategy for 3D small object detection. Conventional 3D object detection methods struggle on small objects due to the weak geometric information from a small number of points. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xiuwei Xu , Zhihao Sun , Ziwei Wang , Hongmin Liu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu