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Recent work indicates that, besides being a challenge in producing perceptually pleasing images, low light proves more difficult for machine cognition than previously thought. In our work, we take a closer look at object detection in low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Igor Morawski , Yu-An Chen , Yu-Sheng Lin , Winston H. Hsu

This paper addresses the challenge of deploying salient object detection (SOD) on resource-constrained devices with real-time performance. While recent advances in deep neural networks have improved SOD, existing top-leading models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhuo Su , Li Liu , Matthias Müller , Jiehua Zhang , Diana Wofk , Ming-Ming Cheng , Matti Pietikäinen

Object pose estimation is a fundamental computer vision problem with broad applications in augmented reality and robotics. Over the past decade, deep learning models, due to their superior accuracy and robustness, have increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jian Liu , Wei Sun , Hui Yang , Zhiwen Zeng , Chongpei Liu , Jin Zheng , Xingyu Liu , Hossein Rahmani , Nicu Sebe , Ajmal Mian

Recent advances in deep learning have led to the development of accurate and efficient models for various computer vision applications such as classification, segmentation, and detection. However, learning highly accurate models relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Poojan Oza , Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vibashan VS , Vishal M. Patel

Object detection-the computer vision task dealing with detecting instances of objects of a certain class (e.g., 'car', 'plane', etc.) in images-attracted a lot of attention from the community during the last 5 years. This strong interest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Shivang Agarwal , Jean Ogier Du Terrail , Frédéric Jurie

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 optical remote sensing images, being a fundamental but challenging problem in the field of aerial and satellite image analysis, plays an important role for a wide range of applications and is receiving significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Gong Cheng , Junwei Han

Aiming at facilitating a real-world, ever-evolving and scalable autonomous driving system, we present a large-scale dataset for standardizing the evaluation of different self-supervised and semi-supervised approaches by learning from raw…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Jianhua Han , Xiwen Liang , Hang Xu , Kai Chen , Lanqing Hong , Jiageng Mao , Chaoqiang Ye , Wei Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Xiaodan Liang , Chunjing Xu

Due to object detection's close relationship with video analysis and image understanding, it has attracted much research attention in recent years. Traditional object detection methods are built on handcrafted features and shallow trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Zhong-Qiu Zhao , Peng Zheng , Shou-tao Xu , Xindong Wu

Object Detection is the task of classification and localization of objects in an image or video. It has gained prominence in recent years due to its widespread applications. This article surveys recent developments in deep learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Syed Sahil Abbas Zaidi , Mohammad Samar Ansari , Asra Aslam , Nadia Kanwal , Mamoona Asghar , Brian Lee

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

This paper explores the size-invariance of evaluation metrics in Salient Object Detection (SOD), especially when multiple targets of diverse sizes co-exist in the same image. We observe that current metrics are size-sensitive, where larger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Feiran Li , Qianqian Xu , Shilong Bao , Zhiyong Yang , Runmin Cong , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

This paper identifies and addresses a serious design bias of existing salient object detection (SOD) datasets, which unrealistically assume that each image should contain at least one clear and uncluttered salient object. This design bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Deng-Ping Fan , Jing Zhang , Gang Xu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ling Shao

Small Object Detection (SOD) poses significant challenges due to limited information and the model's low class prediction score. While Transformer-based detectors have shown promising performance, their potential for SOD remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Guiping Cao , Wenjian Huang , Xiangyuan Lan , Jianguo Zhang , Dongmei Jiang , Yaowei Wang

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

Object Detection (OD) has proven to be a significant computer vision method in extracting localized class information and has multiple applications in the industry. Although many of the state-of-the-art (SOTA) OD models perform well on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jibinraj Antony , Vinit Hegiste , Ali Nazeri , Hooman Tavakoli , Snehal Walunj , Christiane Plociennik , Martin Ruskowski

Strong demand for autonomous vehicles and the wide availability of 3D sensors are continuously fueling the proposal of novel methods for 3D object detection. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of recent developments from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Moritz Drobnitzky , Jonas Friederich , Bernhard Egger , Patrick Zschech

We present the first systematic study on concealed object detection (COD), which aims to identify objects that are "perfectly" embedded in their background. The high intrinsic similarities between the concealed objects and their background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Deng-Ping Fan , Ge-Peng Ji , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ling Shao

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

The real human attention is an interactive activity between our visual system and our brain, using both low-level visual stimulus and high-level semantic information. Previous image salient object detection (SOD) works conduct their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Aimin Hao , Hong Qin