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The Earth observation satellites have been monitoring the earth's surface for a long time, and the images taken by the satellites contain large amounts of valuable data. However, it is extremely hard work to manually analyze such huge data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Kazuki Uehara , Hidenori Sakanashi , Hirokazu Nosato , Masahiro Murakawa , Hiroki Miyamoto , Ryosuke Nakamura

Object detection has achieved a huge breakthrough with deep neural networks and massive annotated data. However, current detection methods cannot be directly transferred to the scenario where the annotated data is scarce due to the severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Qihan Huang , Haofei Zhang , Mengqi Xue , Jie Song , Mingli Song

Remote sensing object detection (RSOD), one of the most fundamental and challenging tasks in the remote sensing field, has received longstanding attention. In recent years, deep learning techniques have demonstrated robust feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Xiangrong Zhang , Tianyang Zhang , Guanchun Wang , Peng Zhu , Xu Tang , Xiuping Jia , Licheng Jiao

Computer vision-based deep learning object detection algorithms have been developed sufficiently powerful to support the ability to recognize various objects. Although there are currently general datasets for object detection, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Rui Duan , Hui Deng , Mao Tian , Yichuan Deng , Jiarui Lin

Detection of small objects in large swaths of imagery is one of the primary problems in satellite imagery analytics. While object detection in ground-based imagery has benefited from research into new deep learning approaches, transitioning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Adam Van Etten

Satellite image classification is a challenging problem that lies at the crossroads of remote sensing, computer vision, and machine learning. Due to the high variability inherent in satellite data, most of the current object classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Saikat Basu , Sangram Ganguly , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Robert DiBiano , Manohar Karki , Ramakrishna Nemani

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

This survey paper specially analyzed computer vision-based object detection challenges and solutions by different techniques. We mainly highlighted object detection by three different trending strategies, i.e., 1) domain adaptive deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Muhammed Muzammul , Xi Li

Small object detection (SOD) in anti-UAV task is a challenging problem due to the small size of UAVs and complex backgrounds. Traditional frame-based cameras struggle to detect small objects in complex environments due to their low frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Nuo Chen , Chao Xiao , Yimian Dai , Shiman He , Miao Li , Wei An

Effective tracking of surrounding traffic participants allows for an accurate state estimation as a necessary ingredient for prediction of future behavior and therefore adequate planning of the ego vehicle trajectory. One approach for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Patrick Palmer , Martin Krüger , Richard Altendorfer , Torsten Bertram

Small Multi-Object Tracking (SMOT) is particularly challenging when targets occupy only a few dozen pixels, rendering detection and appearance-based association unreliable. Building on the success of the MVA2023 SOD4SB challenge, this paper…

The rapid expansion of advanced low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites in large constellations is positioning space assets as key to the future, enabling global internet access and relay systems for deep space missions. A solution to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Wenxuan Zhang , Peng Hu

Infrared sensing is a core method for supporting unmanned systems, such as autonomous vehicles and drones. Recently, infrared sensors have been widely deployed on mobile and stationary platforms for detection and classification of objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zhengeng Yang , Hongshan Yu , Jianjun Zhang , Qiang Tang , Ajmal Mian

Most contributions on Few-Shot Object Detection (FSOD) evaluate their methods on natural images only, yet the transferability of the announced performance is not guaranteed for applications on other kinds of images. We demonstrate this with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Pierre Le Jeune

Small object detection (SOD) remains challenging due to extremely limited pixels and ambiguous object boundaries. These characteristics lead to challenging annotation, limited availability of large-scale high-quality datasets, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haoran Zhu , Wen Yang , Guangyou Yang , Chang Xu , Ruixiang Zhang , Fang Xu , Haijian Zhang , Gui-Song Xia

Object detection as a subfield within computer vision has achieved remarkable progress, which aims to accurately identify and locate a specific object from images or videos. Such methods rely on large-scale labeled training samples for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zhimeng Xin , Shiming Chen , Tianxu Wu , Yuanjie Shao , Weiping Ding , Xinge You

Deep learning approaches to object detection have achieved reliable detection of specific object classes in images. However, extending a model's detection capability to new object classes requires large amounts of annotated training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Vikhyat Agarwal , Jiayi Cora Guo , Declan Hoban , Sissi Zhang , Nicholas Moran , Peter Cho , Srilakshmi Pattabiraman , Shantanu Joshi

Object detection is one of the most important and challenging branches of computer vision, which has been widely applied in peoples life, such as monitoring security, autonomous driving and so on, with the purpose of locating instances of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Licheng Jiao , Fan Zhang , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Lingling Li , Zhixi Feng , Rong Qu

Satellite video cameras can provide continuous observation for a large-scale area, which is important for many remote sensing applications. However, achieving moving object detection and tracking in satellite videos remains challenging due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Qian Yin , Qingyong Hu , Hao Liu , Feng Zhang , Yingqian Wang , Zaiping Lin , Wei An , Yulan Guo

Searching for small objects in large images is a task that is both challenging for current deep learning systems and important in numerous real-world applications, such as remote sensing and medical imaging. Thorough scanning of very large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Nathan Drenkow , Philippe Burlina , Neil Fendley , Onyekachi Odoemene , Jared Markowitz