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Detecting arbitrarily oriented tiny objects poses intense challenges to existing detectors, especially for label assignment. Despite the exploration of adaptive label assignment in recent oriented object detectors, the extreme geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Chang Xu , Jian Ding , Jinwang Wang , Wen Yang , Huai Yu , Lei Yu , Gui-Song Xia

Tiny object detection is one of the key challenges in the field of object detection. The performance of most generic detectors dramatically decreases in tiny object detection tasks. The main challenge lies in extracting effective features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Bing Cao , Haiyu Yao , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu

Precise detection of tiny objects in remote sensing imagery remains a significant challenge due to their limited visual information and frequent occurrence within scenes. This challenge is further exacerbated by the practical burden and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Haoran Zhu , Chang Xu , Wen Yang , Ruixiang Zhang , Yan Zhang , Gui-Song Xia

High-resolution remote sensing imagery increasingly contains dense clusters of tiny objects, the detection of which is extremely challenging due to severe mutual occlusion and limited pixel footprints. Existing detection methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhicheng Zhao , Xuanang Fan , Lingma Sun , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang

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

Despite significant advances in generic object detection, a persistent performance gap remains for tiny objects compared to normal-scale objects. We demonstrate that tiny objects are highly sensitive to annotation noise, where optimizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Huixin Sun , Linlin Yang , Ronyu Chen , Kerui Gu , Baochang Zhang , Angela Yao , Xianbin Cao

The past few years have witnessed the immense success of object detection, while current excellent detectors struggle on tackling size-limited instances. Concretely, the well-known challenge of low overlaps between the priors and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Xiang Yuan , Gong Cheng , Kebing Yan , Qinghua Zeng , Junwei Han

Object detection has made great progress in the past few years along with the development of deep learning. However, most current object detection methods are resource hungry, which hinders their wide deployment to many resource restricted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Yuxi Li , Jiuwei Li , Weiyao Lin , Jianguo Li

The ambiguous appearance, tiny scale, and fine-grained classes of objects in remote sensing imagery inevitably lead to the noisy annotations in category labels of detection dataset. However, the effects and treatments of the label noises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Guozhang Liu , Ting Liu , Mengke Yuan , Tao Pang , Guangxing Yang , Hao Fu , Tao Wang , Tongkui Liao

Current object segmentation algorithms are based on the hypothesis that one has access to a very large amount of data. In this paper, we aim to segment objects using only tiny datasets. To this extent, we propose a new automatic part-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Maxime Tremblay , André Zaccarin

Substantial efforts have been devoted more recently to presenting various methods for object detection in optical remote sensing images. However, the current survey of datasets and deep learning based methods for object detection in optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Ke Li , Gang Wan , Gong Cheng , Liqiu Meng , Junwei Han

Detecting objects with visual sensors is crucial for numerous mobile robotics applications, from autonomous navigation to inspection. However, robots often need to operate under significant domains shifts from those they were trained in,…

Small object detection (SOD) is a critical yet challenging task in computer vision, with applications like spanning surveillance, autonomous systems, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Unlike larger objects, small objects contain limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Mahya Nikouei , Bita Baroutian , Shahabedin Nabavi , Fateme Taraghi , Atefe Aghaei , Ayoob Sajedi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

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

At present, the performance of deep neural network in general object detection is comparable to or even surpasses that of human beings. However, due to the limitations of deep learning itself, the small proportion of feature pixels, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Kai Yi , Zhiqiang Jian , Shitao Chen , Nanning Zheng

In this paper, we address the problem of detecting small, dense, and overlapping objects, a major challenge in computer vision. Our focus is on reviewing proposed methods based on deep learning supervised approaches. We provide a detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Oussama Messai , Abbass Zein-Eddine , Abdelouahid Bentamou , Mickael Picq , Nicolas Duquesne , Stéphane Puydarrieux , Yann Gavet

A novel object detection method is presented that handles freely rotated objects of arbitrary sizes, including tiny objects as small as $2\times 2$ pixels. Such tiny objects appear frequently in remotely sensed images, and present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Mohsen Zand , Ali Etemad , Michael Greenspan

Detecting small, densely distributed objects is a significant challenge: small objects often contain less distinctive information compared to larger ones, and finer-grained precision of bounding box boundaries are required. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Zhenhua Chen , David Crandall , Robert Templeman

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in object recognition tasks through the availability of large scale datasets like ImageNet. However, deep learning systems suffer from catastrophic forgetting when learning incrementally without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Ali Ayub , Alan R. Wagner

Object recognition has made great advances in the last decade, but predominately still relies on many high-quality training examples per object category. In contrast, learning new objects from only a few examples could enable many impactful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Daniela Massiceti , Luisa Zintgraf , John Bronskill , Lida Theodorou , Matthew Tobias Harris , Edward Cutrell , Cecily Morrison , Katja Hofmann , Simone Stumpf
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