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Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision that involves dense pixel-wise classification for scene understanding. Despite significant progress, achieving high accuracy while maintaining real-time performance remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Abhinav Sagar

Many state-of-the-art methods have been proposed for infrared small target detection. They work well on the images with homogeneous backgrounds and high-contrast targets. However, when facing highly heterogeneous backgrounds, they would not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Yimian Dai , Yiquan Wu

Infrared small target detection is a technique for finding small targets from infrared clutter background. Due to the dearth of high-level semantic information, small infrared target features are weakened in the deep layers of the CNN,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Haoqing Li , Jinfu Yang , Runshi Wang , Yifei Xu

Multi-task dense prediction aims at handling multiple pixel-wise prediction tasks within a unified network simultaneously for visual scene understanding. However, cross-task feature interactions of current methods are still suffering from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jingdong Zhang , Jiayuan Fan , Peng Ye , Bo Zhang , Hancheng Ye , Baopu Li , Yancheng Cai , Tao Chen

Training an object instance detector where only a few training object images are available is a challenging task. One solution is a cut-and-paste method that generates a training dataset by cutting object areas out of training images and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Woo-han Yun , Taewoo Kim , Jaeyeon Lee , Jaehong Kim , Junmo Kim

Convolutional neural network (CNN) has led to significant progress in object detection. In order to detect the objects in various sizes, the object detectors often exploit the hierarchy of the multi-scale feature maps called feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jin Hyeok Yoo , Dongsuk Kum , Jun Won Choi

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) plays a critical role in a wide range of civilian and military applications. Existing methods suffer from deficiencies in the localization of dim targets and the perception of contour information under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Jiakun Deng , Kexuan Li , Xingye Cui , Jiaxuan Li , Chang Long , Tian Pu , Zhenming Peng

Test-time task adaptation in few-shot learning aims to adapt a pre-trained task-agnostic model for capturing taskspecific knowledge of the test task, rely only on few-labeled support samples. Previous approaches generally focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ji Zhang , Lianli Gao , Xu Luo , Hengtao Shen , Jingkuan Song

Near-field integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) enables object-level sensing from distance-dependent array responses, yet most existing near-field methods still rely on point-target models and realistic extended targets remain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Zongyao Zhao , Zhaolin Wang , Lincong Han , Jing Jin , Yuanwei Liu , Kaibin Huang

Existing single-image denoising algorithms often struggle to restore details when dealing with complex noisy images. The introduction of near-infrared (NIR) images offers new possibilities for RGB image denoising. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yuchen Wang , Hongyuan Wang , Lizhi Wang , Xin Wang , Lin Zhu , Wanxuan Lu , Hua Huang

Two factors have proven to be very important to the performance of semantic segmentation models: global context and multi-level semantics. However, generating features that capture both factors always leads to high computational complexity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Qi Song , Kangfu Mei , Rui Huang

In domain generalization, the knowledge learnt from one or multiple source domains is transferred to an unseen target domain. In this work, we propose a novel domain generalization approach for fine-grained scene recognition. We first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Marian George , Mandar Dixit , Gábor Zogg , Nuno Vasconcelos

Multi-modality image fusion aims at fusing modality-specific (complementarity) and modality-shared (correlation) information from multiple source images. To tackle the problem of the neglect of inter-feature relationships, high-frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xiaoli Zhang , Liying Wang , Libo Zhao , Xiongfei Li , Siwei Ma

Due to the limitations of optical lens focal length and detector resolution, distant clustered infrared small targets often appear as mixed spots. The Close Small Object Unmixing (CSOU) task aims to recover the number, sub-pixel positions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhiyang Tang , Yiming Zhu , Ruimin Huang , Meng Yang , Yong Ma , Jun Huang , Fan Fan

This paper introduces a novel unsupervised approach for image deblurring that utilizes a simple process for training data collection, thereby enhancing the applicability and effectiveness of deblurring methods. Our technique does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bang-Dang Pham , Anh Tran , Cuong Pham , Minh Hoai

Infrared small target detection plays an important role in the infrared search and tracking applications. In recent years, deep learning techniques were introduced to this task and achieved noteworthy effects. Following general object…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Fang Chen , Chenqiang Gao , Fangcen Liu , Yue Zhao , Yuxi Zhou , Deyu Meng , Wangmeng Zuo

The low-level details and high-level semantics are both essential to the semantic segmentation task. However, to speed up the model inference, current approaches almost always sacrifice the low-level details, which leads to a considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Changqian Yu , Changxin Gao , Jingbo Wang , Gang Yu , Chunhua Shen , Nong Sang

Change detection, i.e. identification per pixel of changes for some classes of interest from a set of bi-temporal co-registered images, is a fundamental task in the field of remote sensing. It remains challenging due to unrelated forms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Foivos I. Diakogiannis , François Waldner , Peter Caccetta

Camouflaged object detection is an emerging and challenging computer vision task that requires identifying and segmenting objects that blend seamlessly into their environments due to high similarity in color, texture, and size. This task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Leena Alghamdi , Muhammad Usman , Hafeez Anwar , Abdul Bais , Saeed Anwar

Few-shot object detection is a challenging but realistic scenario, where only a few annotated training images are available for training detectors. A popular approach to handle this problem is transfer learning, i.e., fine-tuning a detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Ze Yang , Yali Wang , Xianyu Chen , Jianzhuang Liu , Yu Qiao