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Infrared Small Target Detection (IRSTD) aims to segment small targets from infrared clutter background. Existing methods mainly focus on discriminative approaches, i.e., a pixel-level front-background binary segmentation. Since infrared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Haoqing Li , Jinfu Yang , Yifei Xu , Runshi Wang

Small moving target detection is crucial for many defense applications but remains highly challenging due to low signal-to-noise ratios, ambiguous visual cues, and cluttered backgrounds. In this work, we propose a novel deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Guoyi Zhang , Siyang Chen , Guangsheng Xu , Zhihua Shen , Han Wang , Xiaohu Zhang

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is highly sensitive to sensor type, observation conditions, and the intrinsic properties of the target. These factors can introduce substantial variations in the distribution of acquired infrared image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yahao Lu , Yuehui Li , Xingyuan Guo , Shuai Yuan , Yukai Shi , Liang Lin

The infrared small-dim target detection is one of the key techniques in the infrared search and tracking system. Since the local regions similar to infrared small-dim targets spread over the whole background, exploring the interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Fangcen Liu , Chenqiang Gao , Fang Chen , Deyu Meng , Wangmeng Zuo , Xinbo Gao

To mitigate the issue of minimal intrinsic features for pure data-driven methods, in this paper, we propose a novel model-driven deep network for infrared small target detection, which combines discriminative networks and conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Yimian Dai , Yiquan Wu , Fei Zhou , Kobus Barnard

This paper presents a novel semantic scene change detection scheme with only weak supervision. A straightforward approach for this task is to train a semantic change detection network directly from a large-scale dataset in an end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ken Sakurada , Mikiya Shibuya , Weimin Wang

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) has attracted widespread attention and been applied in various fields. Due to the small size of infrared targets and the noise interference from complex backgrounds, the performance of ISTD using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Ao Wang , Wei Li , Xin Wu , Zhanchao Huang , Ran Tao

The spread of deepfakes poses significant security concerns, demanding reliable detection methods. However, diverse generation techniques and class imbalance in datasets create challenges. We propose CAE-Net, a Convolution- and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Anindya Bhattacharjee , Kaidul Islam , Kafi Anan , Ashir Intesher , Abrar Assaeem Fuad , Utsab Saha , Hafiz Imtiaz

Geospatial object segmentation, as a particular semantic segmentation task, always faces with larger-scale variation, larger intra-class variance of background, and foreground-background imbalance in the high spatial resolution (HSR) remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Zhuo Zheng , Yanfei Zhong , Junjue Wang , Ailong Ma

Feature descriptor matching is a critical step is many computer vision applications such as image stitching, image retrieval and visual localization. However, it is often affected by many practical factors which will degrade its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Po-Heng Chen , Zhao-Xu Luo , Zu-Kuan Huang , Chun Yang , Kuan-Wen Chen

Single-frame InfraRed Small Target (SIRST) detection has been a challenging task due to a lack of inherent characteristics, imprecise bounding box regression, a scarcity of real-world datasets, and sensitive localization evaluation. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yimian Dai , Xiang Li , Fei Zhou , Yulei Qian , Yaohong Chen , Jian Yang

Few-shot semantic segmentation is the task of learning to locate each pixel of the novel class in the query image with only a few annotated support images. The current correlation-based methods construct pair-wise feature correlations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Huafeng Liu , Pai Peng , Tao Chen , Qiong Wang , Yazhou Yao , Xian-Sheng Hua

Dense image matching aims to find a correspondent for every pixel of a source image in a partially overlapping target image. State-of-the-art methods typically rely on a coarse-to-fine mechanism where a single correspondent hypothesis is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Matthieu Vilain , Rémi Giraud , Yannick Berthoumieu , Guillaume Bourmaud

Infrared small target detection is an important problem in many fields such as earth observation, military reconnaissance, disaster relief, and has received widespread attention recently. This paper presents the Attention-Guided Pyramid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Tianfang Zhang , Siying Cao , Tian Pu , Zhenming Peng

Tiny face detection aims to find faces with high degrees of variability in scale, resolution and occlusion in cluttered scenes. Due to the very little information available on tiny faces, it is not sufficient to detect them merely based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Yue Xi , Jiangbin Zheng , Xiangjian He , Wenjing Jia , Hanhui Li

Large-scale semantic segmentation networks often achieve high performance, while their application can be challenging when faced with limited sample sizes and computational resources. In scenarios with restricted network size and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Wentao Wang , Xili Wang

Establishing dense semantic correspondences between object instances remains a challenging problem due to background clutter, significant scale and pose differences, and large intra-class variations. In this paper, we address weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Yun-Chun Chen , Po-Hsiang Huang , Li-Yu Yu , Jia-Bin Huang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Yen-Yu Lin

In complex environments, detecting tiny infrared targets has always been challenging because of the low contrast and high noise levels inherent in infrared images. These factors often lead to the loss of crucial details during feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xiaojin Lu , Taoran yue , Jiaxi cai , Yuanping Chen , Cuihong Lv , Shibing Chu

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images plays an important role in a wide range of applications including land resource management, biosphere monitoring and urban planning. Although the accuracy of semantic segmentation in remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Rui Li , Shunyi Zheng , Chenxi Duan , Ce Zhang , Jianlin Su , P. M. Atkinson

Single-frame infrared small target detection remains a challenge not only due to the scarcity of intrinsic target characteristics but also because of lacking a public dataset. In this paper, we first contribute an open dataset with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Yimian Dai , Yiquan Wu , Fei Zhou , Kobus Barnard