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Multi-frame infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a crucial role in low-altitude and maritime surveillance. The hybrid architecture combining CNNs and Transformers shows great promise for enhancing multi-frame IRSTD performance. In…

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Channel attention mechanisms endeavor to recalibrate channel weights to enhance representation abilities of networks. However, mainstream methods often rely solely on global average pooling as the feature squeezer, which significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yangbo Jiang , Zhiwei Jiang , Le Han , Zenan Huang , Nenggan Zheng

Forensic analysis of manipulated pixels requires the identification of various hidden and subtle features from images. Conventional image recognition models generally fail at this task because they are biased and more attentive toward the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Sowmen Das , Md. Saiful Islam , Md. Ruhul Amin

Exploring and mining subtle yet distinctive features between sub-categories with similar appearances is crucial for fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC). However, less effort has been devoted to assessing the quality of extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Qin Xu , Sitong Li , Jiahui Wang , Bo Jiang , Jinhui Tang

Sonar imaging is the primary modality for underwater target detection, yet small targets remain difficult to detect due to insufficient pixel coverage, low acoustic contrast, and scale ambiguity across imaging ranges. CNN-based detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hui Lin , Jiayi Li , Jing Wang , Shenghui Rong

Transformer-based methods have demonstrated excellent performance on super-resolution visual tasks, surpassing conventional convolutional neural networks. However, existing work typically restricts self-attention computation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Shu-Chuan Chu , Zhi-Chao Dou , Jeng-Shyang Pan , Shaowei Weng , Junbao Li

Robust and discriminative feature learning is critical for high-quality point cloud registration. However, existing deep learning-based methods typically rely on Euclidean neighborhood-based strategies for feature extraction, which struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Shuyuan Lin , Wenwu Peng , Junjie Huang , Qiang Qi , Miaohui Wang , Jian Weng

Detecting objects in aerial images confronts some significant challenges, including small size, dense and non-uniform distribution of objects over high-resolution images, which makes detection inefficient. Thus, in this paper, we proposed a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zhangjian Ji , Huijia Yan , Shaotong Qiao , Kai Feng , Wei Wei

Single-frame infrared small target detection remains a challenge not only due to the scarcity of intrinsic target characteristics but also because of lacking a public dataset. In this paper, we first contribute an open dataset with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Yimian Dai , Yiquan Wu , Fei Zhou , Kobus Barnard

Due to the limitation of the optical lens focal length and the resolution of the infrared detector, distant Closely-Spaced Infrared Small Target (CSIST) groups typically appear as mixing spots in the infrared image. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ximeng Zhai , Bohan Xu , Yaohong Chen , Hao Wang , Kehua Guo , Yimian Dai

Change detection in optical remote sensing imagery is susceptible to illumination fluctuations, seasonal changes, and variations in surface land-cover materials. Relying solely on RGB imagery often produces pseudo-changes and leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ye Wang , Wei Lu , Zhihui You , Keyan Chen , Tongfei Liu , Kaiyu Li , Hongruixuan Chen , Qingling Shu , Sibao Chen

In this paper, we introduce a machine learning approach to the problem of infrared small target detection filter design. For this purpose, similarly to a convolutional layer of a neural network, the normalized-cross-correlational (NCC)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 H. Seçkin Demir , Erdem Akagunduz

Crack detection is a critical task in structural health monitoring, aimed at assessing the structural integrity of bridges, buildings, and roads to prevent potential failures. Vision-based crack detection has become the mainstream approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Qinfeng Zhu , Yuan Fang , Lei Fan

Aiming at the metro video surveillance system has not been able to effectively solve the metro crowd density estimation problem, a Metro Crowd density estimation Network (called MCNet) is proposed to automatically classify crowd density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Qiang Guo , Rubo Zhang , Di Zhao

Infrared dim and small target detection presents a significant challenge due to dynamic multi-frame scenarios and weak target signatures in the infrared modality. Traditional low-rank plus sparse models often fail to capture dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Pei Liu , Yisi Luo , Wenzhen Wang , Xiangyong Cao

Infrared small-target detection (ISTD) is an important computer vision task. ISTD aims at separating small targets from complex background clutter. The infrared radiation decays over distances, making the targets highly dim and prone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jingchao Peng , Haitao Zhao , Kaijie Zhao , Zhongze Wang , Lujian Yao

Medical image segmentation involves identifying and separating object instances in a medical image to delineate various tissues and structures, a task complicated by the significant variations in size, shape, and density of these features.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Sina Ghorbani Kolahi , Seyed Kamal Chaharsooghi , Toktam Khatibi , Afshin Bozorgpour , Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

Multi-view compression technology, especially Stereo Image Compression (SIC), plays a crucial role in car-mounted cameras and 3D-related applications. Interestingly, the Distributed Source Coding (DSC) theory suggests that efficient data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-01 Yichong Xia , Yujun Huang , Bin Chen , Haoqian Wang , Yaowei Wang

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

Accurate medical image segmentation is an integral part of the medical image analysis pipeline that requires the ability to merge local and global information. While vision transformers are able to capture global interactions using vanilla…

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