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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

Recently, object detection in aerial images has gained much attention in computer vision. Different from objects in natural images, aerial objects are often distributed with arbitrary orientation. Therefore, the detector requires more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Jiaming Han , Jian Ding , Nan Xue , Gui-Song Xia

The proliferation of smartphones and other mobile devices provides a unique opportunity to make Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) accessible to everyone in the form of an application empowered by low-cost Machine/Deep Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Muhammad Zaeem Shahzad , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

Small object detection (SOD) is a critical yet challenging task in computer vision, with applications like spanning surveillance, autonomous systems, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Unlike larger objects, small objects contain limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Mahya Nikouei , Bita Baroutian , Shahabedin Nabavi , Fateme Taraghi , Atefe Aghaei , Ayoob Sajedi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

Semantic segmentation has been one of the leading research interests in computer vision recently. It serves as a perception foundation for many fields, such as robotics and autonomous driving. The fast development of semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ye Lyu , George Vosselman , Guisong Xia , Alper Yilmaz , Michael Ying Yang

As robotics technology advances, dense point cloud maps are increasingly in demand. However, dense reconstruction using a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) suffers from limitations in flight speed and battery power, resulting in slow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Yifei Dong , Shuhui Bu , Kun Li , Lin Chen , Zhenyu Xia , Yu Wang , Pengcheng Han , Xuefeng Cao , Ke Li

Automatic multi-class object detection in remote sensing images in unconstrained scenarios is of high interest for several applications including traffic monitoring and disaster management. The huge variation in object scale, orientation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Seyed Majid Azimi , Eleonora Vig , Reza Bahmanyar , Marco Körner , Peter Reinartz

The computational burden and inherent redundancy of large-scale datasets challenge the training of contemporary machine learning models. Data pruning offers a solution by selecting smaller, informative subsets, yet existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Feiyang Kang , Nadine Chang , Maying Shen , Marc T. Law , Rafid Mahmood , Ruoxi Jia , Jose M. Alvarez

Deep learning-based dense object detectors have achieved great success in the past few years and have been applied to numerous multimedia applications such as video understanding. However, the current training pipeline for dense detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Zehui Chen , Chenhongyi Yang , Qiaofei Li , Feng Zhao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Feng Wu

Anomaly detection in complex, high-dimensional data, such as UAV sensor readings, is essential for operational safety but challenging for existing methods due to their limited sensitivity, scalability, and inability to capture intricate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mingze Gong , Juan Du , Jianbang You

Object localization in general environments is a fundamental part of vision systems. While dominating on the COCO benchmark, recent Transformer-based detection methods are not competitive in diverse domains. Moreover, these methods still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Mingqiao Ye , Lei Ke , Siyuan Li , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu

Efficient and accurate detection of small objects in manufacturing settings, such as defects and cracks, is crucial for ensuring product quality and safety. To address this issue, we proposed a comprehensive strategy by synergizing Faster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Md Sohag Mia , Abdullah Al Bary Voban , Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Abdu Naim , Md Kawsar Ahmed , Md Shariful Islam

Small object detection (SOD) in anti-UAV task is a challenging problem due to the small size of UAVs and complex backgrounds. Traditional frame-based cameras struggle to detect small objects in complex environments due to their low frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Nuo Chen , Chao Xiao , Yimian Dai , Shiman He , Miao Li , Wei An

Object detection aims to localize and classify the objects in a given image, and these two tasks are sensitive to different object regions. Therefore, some locations predict high-quality bounding boxes but low classification scores, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yang Yang , Min Li , Bo Meng , Junxing Ren , Degang Sun , Zihao Huang

Autonomous driving in complex urban scenarios requires 3D perception to be both comprehensive and precise. Traditional 3D perception methods focus on object detection, resulting in sparse representations that lack environmental detail.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Chao Chen , Ruoyu Wang , Yuliang Guo , Cheng Zhao , Xinyu Huang , Chen Feng , Liu Ren

As one of the basic tasks of computer vision, object detection has been widely used in many intelligent applications. However, object detection algorithms are usually heavyweight in computation, hindering their implementations on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Zhiqiang Cao , Zhijun Li , Pan Heng , Yongrui Chen , Daqi Xie , Jie Liu

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) plays an important role in solving many fundamental problems in video analysis in computer vision. Most MOT methods employ two steps: Object Detection and Data Association. The first step detects objects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 ShiJie Sun , Naveed Akhtar , HuanSheng Song , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah

Model efficiency has become increasingly important in computer vision. In this paper, we systematically study neural network architecture design choices for object detection and propose several key optimizations to improve efficiency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Mingxing Tan , Ruoming Pang , Quoc V. Le

The emerging drone aerial survey has the advantages of low cost, high efficiency, and flexible use. However, UAVs are often equipped with cheap POS systems and non-measurement cameras, and their flight attitudes are easily affected. How to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Jiageng Zhong , Ming Li , Jiangying Qin , Hanqi Zhang

We introduce a multi-modal WAVE-DETR drone detector combining visible RGB and acoustic signals for robust real-life UAV object detection. Our approach fuses visual and acoustic features in a unified object detector model relying on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Razvan Stefanescu , Ethan Oh , Ruben Vazquez , Chris Mesterharm , Constantin Serban , Ritu Chadha