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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

3D reconstruction of high-resolution target remains a challenge task due to the large memory required from the large input image size. Recently developed learning based algorithms provide promising reconstruction performance than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yanwei Wang

Recent years have seen impressive progress in visual recognition on many benchmarks, however, generalization to the real-world in out-of-distribution setting remains a significant challenge. A state-of-the-art method for robust visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Sebastian Cygert , Andrzej Czyzewski

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

Detection of small objects and objects far away in the scene is a major challenge in surveillance applications. Such objects are represented by small number of pixels in the image and lack sufficient details, making them difficult to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Fatih Cagatay Akyon , Sinan Onur Altinuc , Alptekin Temizel

Object detection as part of computer vision can be crucial for traffic management, emergency response, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities. Despite significant advances in object detection, detecting small objects in images captured by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Boshra Khalili , Andrew W. Smyth

Object detection in natural scenes can be a challenging task. In many real-life situations, the visible spectrum is not suitable for traditional computer vision tasks. Moving outside the visible spectrum range, such as the thermal spectrum…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Md Osman Gani , Somenath Kuiry , Alaka Das , Mita Nasipuri , Nibaran Das

Object detection is a fundamental problem in computer vision, aiming at locating and classifying objects in image. Although current devices can easily take very high-resolution images, current approaches of object detection seldom consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jinyan Liu , Jie Chen

Object detection in remote sensing imagery plays a vital role in various Earth observation applications. However, unlike object detection in natural scene images, this task is particularly challenging due to the abundance of small, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Minh-Duc Vu , Zuheng Ming , Fangchen Feng , Bissmella Bahaduri , Anissa Mokraoui

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve a target image based on a query composed of a reference image and a relative caption that describes the difference between the two images. The high effort and cost required for labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Alberto Baldrati , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

In recent years, significant advancements have been made in deep learning-based object detection algorithms, revolutionizing basic computer vision tasks, notably in object detection, tracking, and segmentation. This paper delves into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Kailas PS , Selvakumaran R , Palani Murugan , Ramesh Kumar , Malaya Kumar Biswal M

There are many limitations applying object detection algorithm on various environments. Especially detecting small objects is still challenging because they have low resolution and limited information. We propose an object detection method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Jeong-Seon Lim , Marcella Astrid , Hyun-Jin Yoon , Seung-Ik Lee

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a challenging image retrieval paradigm. It aims to retrieve target images from large-scale image databases that are consistent with the modification semantics, based on a multimodal query composed of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Mingyu Zhang , Zixu Li , Zhiwei Chen , Zhiheng Fu , Xiaowei Zhu , Jiajia Nie , Yinwei Wei , Yupeng Hu

Object detection is a major challenge in computer vision, involving both object classification and object localization within a scene. While deep neural networks have been shown in recent years to yield very powerful techniques for tackling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Alexander Wong , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Francis Li , Brendan Chwyl

Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD), aiming to explore unlabeled data for boosting object detectors, has become an active task in recent years. However, existing SSOD approaches mainly focus on horizontal objects, leaving multi-oriented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Wei Hua , Dingkang Liang , Jingyu Li , Xiaolong Liu , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiang Bai

The task of Composed Image Retrieval (CoIR) involves queries that combine image and text modalities, allowing users to express their intent more effectively. However, current CoIR datasets are orders of magnitude smaller compared to other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Matan Levy , Rami Ben-Ari , Nir Darshan , Dani Lischinski

This paper investigates and develops methods for detecting small objects in large-scale aerial images. Current approaches for detecting small objects in aerial images often involve image cropping and modifications to detector network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mahila Moghadami , Mohammad Ali Keyvanrad , Melika Sabaghian

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) is a challenging task that requires simultaneously learn object classifiers and estimate object locations under the supervision of image category labels. A major line of WSOD methods roots in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Shiwei Zhang , Wei Ke , Lin Yang

Micro-expression recognition (MER) has achieved impressive accuracy in controlled laboratory settings. However, its real-world applicability faces a significant generalization cliff, severely hindering practical deployment due to poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Linquan Wu , Tianxiang Jiang , Haoyu Yang , Wenhao Duan , Shaochao Lin , Zixuan Wang , Yini Fang , Jacky Keung

Most object-level mapping systems in use today make use of an upstream learned object instance segmentation model. If we want to teach them about a new object or segmentation class, we need to build a large dataset and retrain the system.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Nicolas Gorlo , Kenneth Blomqvist , Francesco Milano , Roland Siegwart