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Small object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery is a persistent challenge, hindered by low resolution and background clutter. While fusing RGB and infrared (IR) data offers a promising solution, existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shuyu Cao , Minxin Chen , Yucheng Song , Zhaozhong Chen , Xinyou Zhang

Small target detection in UAV imagery faces significant challenges such as scale variations, dense distribution, and the dominance of small targets. Existing algorithms rely on manually designed components, and general-purpose detectors are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yuankai Chen , Kai Lin , Qihong Wu , Xinxuan Yang , Jiashuo Lai , Ruoen Chen , Haonan Shi , Minfan He , Meihua Wang

Small object detection has important application value in the fields of autonomous driving and drone scene analysis. As one of the most advanced object detection algorithms, YOLOv3 suffers some challenges when detecting small objects, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Baokai Liu , Fengjie He , Shiqiang Du , Jiacheng Li , Wenjie Liu

Achieving a balance between computational efficiency and detection accuracy in the realm of rotated bounding box object detection within aerial imagery is a significant challenge. While prior research has aimed at creating lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Zhifei Shi , Zongyao Yin , Sheng Chang , Xiao Yi , Xianchuan Yu

The rapid proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has highlighted the importance of robust and efficient object detection in diverse aerial scenarios. Detecting small objects under complex conditions, however, remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Kunwei Lv , Zhiren Xiao , Hang Ren , Ping Lan

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery presents significant challenges. Issues such as densely packed small objects, scale variations, and occlusion are commonplace. This paper introduces RT-DETR++, which enhances the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yuan Shufang

Detecting objects from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is often hindered by a large number of small objects, resulting in low detection accuracy. To address this issue, mainstream approaches typically utilize multi-stage inferences. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Fan Liu , Liang Yao , Chuanyi Zhang , Ting Wu , Xinlei Zhang , Xiruo Jiang , Jun Zhou

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with advanced sensors have opened up new opportunities for monitoring wind power plants, including blades, towers, and other critical components. However, reliable defect detection requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Serhii Svystun , Pavlo Radiuk , Oleksandr Melnychenko , Oleg Savenko , Anatoliy Sachenko

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) object detection plays a vital role in applications such as environmental monitoring and urban security. To improve robustness, recent studies have explored multimodal detection by fusing visible (RGB) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Liu Zongzhen , Luo Hui , Wang Zhixing , Wei Yuxing , Zuo Haorui , Zhang Jianlin

Although advances in deep learning and aerial surveillance technology are improving wildlife conservation efforts, complex and erratic environmental conditions still pose a problem, requiring innovative solutions for cost-effective small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Aditya Prashant Naidu , Hem Gosalia , Ishaan Gakhar , Shaurya Singh Rathore , Krish Didwania , Ujjwal Verma

An object detection pipeline comprises a camera that captures the scene and an object detector that processes these images. The quality of the images directly affects the performance of the object detector. Many works nowadays focus either…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Leon Amadeus Varga , Sebastian Koch , Andreas Zell

In this work, we present a conceptually simple yet effective framework for cross-modality 3D object detection, named voxel field fusion. The proposed approach aims to maintain cross-modality consistency by representing and fusing augmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yanwei Li , Xiaojuan Qi , Yukang Chen , Liwei Wang , Zeming Li , Jian Sun , Jiaya Jia

LiDAR-camera fusion can enhance the performance of 3D object detection by utilizing complementary information between depth-aware LiDAR points and semantically rich images. Existing voxel-based methods face significant challenges when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Ziying Song , Guoxin Zhang , Jun Xie , Lin Liu , Caiyan Jia , Shaoqing Xu , Zhepeng Wang

Targets in remote sensing images are usually small, weakly textured, and easily disturbed by complex backgrounds, challenging high-precision detection with general algorithms. Building on our earlier ESM-YOLO, this work presents ESM-YOLO+…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Qianqian Zhang , Xiaolong Jia , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Li Zhou , Junshe An

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) detection and aerial object recognition are critical for modern surveillance and security, prompting a need for robust systems that overcome limitations of single-modality approaches. This research addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Mauro Larrat , Claudomiro Sales

Predominant methods for image-based drone detection frequently rely on employing generic object detection algorithms like YOLOv5. While proficient in identifying drones against homogeneous backgrounds, these algorithms often struggle in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Tamara R. Lenhard , Andreas Weinmann , Stefan Jäger , Tobias Koch

Object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) images poses significant challenges due to complex scale variations and class imbalance among objects. Existing methods often address these challenges separately, overlooking the intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhenteng Li , Sheng Lian , Dengfeng Pan , Youlin Wang , Wei Liu

A significant challenge in object detection is accurate identification of an object's position in image space, whereas one algorithm with one set of parameters is usually not enough, and the fusion of multiple algorithms and/or parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Pan Wei , John E. Ball , Derek T. Anderson

Recent advances in 4D imaging radar have enabled robust perception in adverse weather, while camera sensors provide dense semantic information. Fusing the these complementary modalities has great potential for cost-effective 3D perception.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Xiaozhi Li , Huijun Di , Jian Li , Feng Liu , Wei Liang

Detecting small objects in complex scenes, such as those captured by drones, is a daunting challenge due to the difficulty in capturing the complex features of small targets. While the YOLO family has achieved great success in large target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Defan Chen , Luchan Zhang