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Small object detection under complex backgrounds remains a challenging task due to severe feature degradation, weak semantic representation, and inaccurate localization caused by downsampling operations and background interference. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Wenguang Tao , Xiaotian Wang , Tian Yan , Yi Wang , Jie Yan

Multiple objects tracking (MOT) is a difficult task, as it usually requires special hardware and higher computation complexity. In this work, we present a new framework of MOT by using of equilibrium optimizer (EO) algorithm and reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Djemai Charef-Khodja , Toumi Abida

Composed image retrieval (CIR) allows a user to locate a target image by applying a fine-grained textual edit (e.g., ``turn the dress blue'' or ``remove stripes'') to a reference image. Zero-shot CIR, which embeds the image and the text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Santhosh Kakarla , Gautama Shastry Bulusu Venkata

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 2024-10-23 Liam Boyle , Julian Moosmann , Nicolas Baumann , Seonyeong Heo , Michele Magno

Most object detection methods operate by applying a binary classifier to sub-windows of an image, followed by a non-maximum suppression step where detections on overlapping sub-windows are removed. Since the number of possible sub-windows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Davis E. King

Recent Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) methods have gradually attempted to integrate object detection and instance re-identification (Re-ID) into a united network to form a one-stage solution. Typically, these methods use two separated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Fan Wang , Lei Luo , En Zhu , Siwei Wang , Jun Long

With the rise of deep convolutional neural networks, object detection has achieved prominent advances in past years. However, such prosperity could not camouflage the unsatisfactory situation of Small Object Detection (SOD), one of the…

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

We introduce SAOR, a novel approach for estimating the 3D shape, texture, and viewpoint of an articulated object from a single image captured in the wild. Unlike prior approaches that rely on pre-defined category-specific 3D templates or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mehmet Aygün , Oisin Mac Aodha

In the past few years, numerous Deep Neural Network (DNN) models and frameworks have been developed to tackle the problem of real-time object detection from RGB images. Ordinary object detection approaches process information from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Xiang Li , Yuan Tian , Fuyao Zhang , Shuxue Quan , Yi Xu

In Few-Shot Object Detection (FSOD), detecting small objects is extremely difficult. The limited supervision cripples the localization capabilities of the models and a few pixels shift can dramatically reduce the Intersection over Union…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Pierre Le Jeune , Anissa Mokraoui

Small object detection presents a significant challenge in computer vision and object detection. The performance of small object detectors is often compromised by a lack of pixels and less significant features. This issue stems from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xiaohui Guo

Learning-enabled control systems increasingly rely on multiple sensing modalities (e.g., vision, audio, language, etc.) for perception and decision support. A key challenge is that multi-modal sensor training dynamics are often imbalanced:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Heshan Fernando , Quan Xiao , Parikshit Ram , Yi Zhou , Horst Samulowitz , Nathalie Baracaldo , Tianyi Chen

We propose a novel recurrent attentional structure to localize and recognize objects jointly. The network can learn to extract a sequence of local observations with detailed appearance and rough context, instead of sliding windows or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Jie Lyu , Zejian Yuan , Dapeng Chen

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a challenging multimodal task that retrieves a target image based on a reference image and accompanying modification text. Due to the high cost of annotating CIR triplet datasets, zero-shot (ZS) CIR has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yabing Wang , Zhuotao Tian , Qingpei Guo , Zheng Qin , Sanping Zhou , Ming Yang , Le Wang

Eliminating geometric distortion in semantically important regions remains an intractable challenge in image retargeting. This paper presents Object-IR, a self-supervised architecture that reformulates image retargeting as a learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Tianli Liao , Ran Wang , Siqing Zhang , Lei Li , Guangen Liu , Chenyang Zhao , Heling Cao , Peng Li

Although fully-supervised oriented object detection has made significant progress in multimodal remote sensing image understanding, it comes at the cost of labor-intensive annotation. Recent studies have explored weakly and semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yu Lin , Jianghang Lin , Kai Ye , You Shen , Yan Zhang , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) has demonstrated significant potential by enabling flexible multimodal queries that combine a reference image and modification text. However, CIR inherently prioritizes semantic matching, struggling to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yuxin Yang , Yinan Zhou , Yuxin Chen , Ziqi Zhang , Zongyang Ma , Chunfeng Yuan , Bing Li , Jun Gao , Weiming Hu

Object detection has witnessed significant progress by relying on large, manually annotated datasets. Annotating such datasets is highly time consuming and expensive, which motivates the development of weakly supervised and few-shot object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Carlo Biffi , Steven McDonagh , Philip Torr , Ales Leonardis , Sarah Parisot

Mirrors can degrade the performance of computer vision models, but research into detecting them is in the preliminary phase. YOLOv4 achieves phenomenal results in terms of object detection accuracy and speed, but it still fails in detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Fengze Li , Jieming Ma , Zhongbei Tian , Ji Ge , Hai-Ning Liang , Yungang Zhang , Tianxi Wen

Many objects do not appear frequently enough in complex scenes (e.g., certain handbags in living rooms) for training an accurate object detector, but are often found frequently by themselves (e.g., in product images). Yet, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Cheng Zhang , Tai-Yu Pan , Yandong Li , Hexiang Hu , Dong Xuan , Soravit Changpinyo , Boqing Gong , Wei-Lun Chao