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The standard architecture of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) consists of three stages: detection, discrimination, and classification. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for SAR ATR have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Hidetoshi Furukawa

Open-vocabulary object detection, which is concerned with the problem of detecting novel objects guided by natural language, has gained increasing attention from the community. Ideally, we would like to extend an open-vocabulary detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yuhang Zang , Wei Li , Kaiyang Zhou , Chen Huang , Chen Change Loy

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are commonly utilized in military applications for automatic target recognition (ATR). Machine learning (ML) methods, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Graph Neural Networks (GNN), are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Sasindu Wijeratne , Bingyi Zhang , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna , Carl Busart

While recent years have witnessed astonishing improvements in visual tracking robustness, the advancements in tracking accuracy have been limited. As the focus has been directed towards the development of powerful classifiers, the problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Martin Danelljan , Goutam Bhat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Michael Felsberg

Synthetic Aperture Radar SAR Automatic Target Recognition ATR is a key technique of remote-sensing image recognition which can be supported by deep neural networks The existing works of SAR ATR mostly focus on improving the accuracy of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jacob Fein-Ashley , Tian Ye , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna , Carl Busart

This paper proposes a novel automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that can transcribe individual speaker's speech while identifying whether they are target or non-target speakers from multi-talker overlapped speech. Target-speaker ASR…

Traditional object detection models are typically trained on a fixed set of classes, limiting their flexibility and making it costly to incorporate new categories. Open-vocabulary object detection addresses this limitation by enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jyoti Kini , Rohit Gupta , Mubarak Shah

In recent years, deep learning has been widely used to solve the bottleneck problem of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). However, most current methods rely heavily on a large number of training samples and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Chenwei Wang , Siyi Luo , Lin Liu , Yin Zhang , Jifang Pei , Yulin Huang , Jianyu Yang

Automatic Target Detection (ATD) and Recognition (ATR) from Thermal Infrared (TI) imagery in the defense and surveillance domain is a challenging computer vision (CV) task in comparison to the commercial autonomous vehicle perception…

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To identify objects beyond predefined categories, open-vocabulary aerial object detection (OVAD) leverages the zero-shot capabilities of visual-language models (VLMs) to generalize from base to novel categories. Existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jianhang Yao , Yongbin Zheng , Siqi Lu , Wanying Xu , Peng Sun

Benchmarks that reflect the diversity and complexity of real-world documents are essential for accurately evaluating Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) systems, especially Vision-Large Language Models (vLLMs). Although recent models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mélodie Boillet , Solène Tarride , Christopher Kermorvant

Large-scale pre-training methods of learning cross-modal representations on image-text pairs are becoming popular for vision-language tasks. While existing methods simply concatenate image region features and text features as input to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Xiujun Li , Xi Yin , Chunyuan Li , Pengchuan Zhang , Xiaowei Hu , Lei Zhang , Lijuan Wang , Houdong Hu , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Yejin Choi , Jianfeng Gao

Prompt learning has proven effective in adapting vision language models for downstream tasks. However, existing methods usually append learnable prompt tokens solely with the category names to obtain textual features, which fails to fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Tong Ding , Wanhua Li , Zhongqi Miao , Hanspeter Pfister

Attention mechanisms are critically important in the advancement of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) systems. Traditional SAR ATR models often struggle with the noisy nature of the SAR data, frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jacob Fein-Ashley , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Target detection is the front-end stage in any automatic target recognition system for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery (SAR-ATR). The efficacy of the detector directly impacts the succeeding stages in the SAR-ATR processing chain.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-16 Khalid El-Darymli , Peter McGuire , Desmond Power , Cecilia Moloney

Adversarial attacks have demonstrated the vulnerability of Machine Learning (ML) image classifiers in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) systems. An adversarial attack can deceive the classifier into making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Tian Ye , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna , Carl Busart

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for enhancing visual comprehension in autonomous driving systems by integrating visual language models (VLMs) with additional visual perception module specialised in object detection. We extend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Linfeng He , Yiming Sun , Sihao Wu , Jiaxu Liu , Xiaowei Huang

Existing synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR) methods have been effective for the classification of seen target classes. However, it is more meaningful and challenging to distinguish the unseen target classes,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Chenwei Wang , Siyi Luo , Jifang Pei , Xiaoyu Liu , Yulin Huang , Yin Zhang , Jianyu Yang

Combining simple architectures with large-scale pre-training has led to massive improvements in image classification. For object detection, pre-training and scaling approaches are less well established, especially in the long-tailed and…