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Distributed radar sensors enable robust human activity recognition. However, scaling the number of coordinated nodes introduces challenges in feature extraction from large datasets, and transparent data fusion. We propose an end-to-end…

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Infrared Small Target Detection is a challenging task to separate small targets from infrared clutter background. Recently, deep learning paradigms have achieved promising results. However, these data-driven methods need plenty of manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Haoqing Li , Jinfu Yang , Yifei Xu , Runshi Wang

The detection of small infrared targets against blurred and cluttered backgrounds has remained an enduring challenge. In recent years, learning-based schemes have become the mainstream methodology to establish the mapping directly. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhu Liu , Zihang Chen , Jinyuan Liu , Long Ma , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Infrared unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) target images often suffer from motion blur degradation caused by rapid sensor movement, significantly reducing contrast between target and background. Generally, detection performance heavily depends…

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Precise instrument segmentation aid surgeons to navigate the body more easily and increase patient safety. While accurate tracking of surgical instruments in real-time plays a crucial role in minimally invasive computer-assisted surgeries,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Juan Carlos Angeles-Ceron , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz , Leonardo Chang , Sharib Ali

As a sub-field of object detection, moving infrared small target detection presents significant challenges due to tiny target sizes and low contrast against backgrounds. Currently-existing methods primarily rely on the features extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Weiwei Duan , Luping Ji , Shengjia Chen , Sicheng Zhu , Mao Ye

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has recently benefitted greatly from U-shaped neural models. However, largely overlooking effective global information modeling, existing techniques struggle when the target has high similarities with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Shuai Yuan , Hanlin Qin , Xiang Yan , Naveed AKhtar , Ajmal Mian

Real-time small object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery remains challenging due to limited feature representation and ineffective multi-scale fusion. Existing methods underutilize frequency information and rely on static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yu Xia , Chang Liu , Tianqi Xiang , Zhigang Tu

Vision transformers (ViTs) have become essential backbones in advanced computer vision applications and multi-modal foundation models. Despite their strengths, ViTs remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, comparable to or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Bhavna Gopal , Huanrui Yang , Mark Horton , Yiran Chen

While diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in style transfer tasks, existing methods typically rely on fine-tuning or optimizing pre-trained models during inference, leading to high computational costs and challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Bo Huang , Wenlun Xu , Qizhuo Han , Haodong Jing , Ying Li

While scene text image super-resolution (STISR) has yielded remarkable improvements in accurately recognizing scene text, prior methodologies have placed excessive emphasis on optimizing performance, rather than paying due attention to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Minghao Fu , Xin Man , Yihan Xu , Jie Shao

In recent years, attention mechanisms have been exploited in single image super-resolution (SISR), achieving impressive reconstruction results. However, these advancements are still limited by the reliance on simple training strategies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yuxuan Jiang , Chengxi Zeng , Siyue Teng , Fan Zhang , Xiaoqing Zhu , Joel Sole , David Bull

The detection of moving infrared dim-small targets has been a challenging and prevalent research topic. The current state-of-the-art methods are mainly based on ConvLSTM to aggregate information from adjacent frames to facilitate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Dengyan Luo , Yanping Xiang , Hu Wang , Luping Ji , Shuai Li , Mao Ye

To address the challenge of capturing highly discriminative features in ther-mal infrared (TIR) tracking, we propose a novel Siamese tracker based on cross-channel fine-grained feature learning and progressive fusion. First, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ruoyan Xiong , Yuke Hou , Princess Retor Torboh , Hui He , Huanbin Zhang , Yue Zhang , Yanpin Wang , Huipan Guan , Shang Zhang

Advances in lightweight neural networks have revolutionized computer vision in a broad range of IoT applications, encompassing remote monitoring and process automation. However, the detection of small objects, which is crucial for many of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Liam Boyle , Nicolas Baumann , Seonyeong Heo , Michele Magno

By integrating certain optimization solvers with deep neural network, deep unfolding network (DUN) has attracted much attention in recent years for image compressed sensing (CS). However, there still exist several issues in existing DUNs:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Wenxue Cui , Shaohui Liu , Debin Zhao

The success of graph neural networks on graph-based web mining highly relies on abundant human-annotated data, which is laborious to obtain in practice. When only few labeled nodes are available, how to improve their robustness is a key to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Kaize Ding , Elnaz Nouri , Guoqing Zheng , Huan Liu , Ryen White

Recent advances in one-shot semi-supervised learning have lowered the barrier for deep learning of new applications. However, the state-of-the-art for semi-supervised learning is slow to train and the performance is sensitive to the choices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Helena E. Liu , Leslie N. Smith

Existing shadow detection datasets often contain missing or mislabeled shadows, which can hinder the performance of deep learning models trained directly on such data. To address this issue, we propose SILT, the Shadow-aware Iterative Label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Han Yang , Tianyu Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Chi-Wing Fu

Scene text detection has received attention for years and achieved an impressive performance across various benchmarks. In this work, we propose an efficient and accurate approach to detect multioriented text in scene images. The proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Liang Zhang , Yufei Liu , Hang Xiao , Lu Yang , Guangming Zhu , Syed Afaq Shah , Mohammed Bennamoun , Peiyi Shen