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Underwater object detection (UOD) remains a critical challenge in computer vision due to underwater distortions which degrade low-level features and compromise the reliability of even state-of-the-art detectors. While YOLO models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Edwine Nabahirwa , Wei Song , Minghua Zhang , Shufan Chen

Computer vision relies on labeled datasets for training and evaluation in detecting and recognizing objects. The popular computer vision program, YOLO ("You Only Look Once"), has been shown to accurately detect objects in many major image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Caleb Tung , Matthew R. Kelleher , Ryan J. Schlueter , Binhan Xu , Yung-Hsiang Lu , George K. Thiruvathukal , Yen-Kuang Chen , Yang Lu

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

This study addresses the need for accurate and efficient object detection in assistive technologies for visually impaired individuals. We evaluate four real-time object detection algorithms YOLO, SSD, Faster R-CNN, and Mask R-CNN within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Abhinav Pratap , Sushant Kumar , Suchinton Chakravarty

Performance of object detection models has been growing rapidly on two major fronts, model accuracy and efficiency. However, in order to map deep neural network (DNN) based object detection models to edge devices, one typically needs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Prakhar Ganesh , Yao Chen , Yin Yang , Deming Chen , Marianne Winslett

Now a days, UAVs such as drones are greatly used for various purposes like that of capturing and target detection from ariel imagery etc. Easy access of these small ariel vehicles to public can cause serious security threats. For instance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Aleena Ajaz , Ayesha Salar , Tauseef Jamal , Asif Ullah Khan

We present YOLO, a new approach to object detection. Prior work on object detection repurposes classifiers to perform detection. Instead, we frame object detection as a regression problem to spatially separated bounding boxes and associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Joseph Redmon , Santosh Divvala , Ross Girshick , Ali Farhadi

Drone-based target detection presents inherent challenges, such as the high density and overlap of targets in drone-based images, as well as the blurriness of targets under varying lighting conditions, which complicates identification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yuchen Zheng , Yuxin Jing , Jufeng Zhao , Guangmang Cui

YOLO has become a central real-time object detection system for robotics, driverless cars, and video monitoring applications. We present a comprehensive analysis of YOLO's evolution, examining the innovations and contributions in each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Juan Terven , Diana Cordova-Esparza

This is a comprehensive review of the YOLO series of systems. Different from previous literature surveys, this review article re-examines the characteristics of the YOLO series from the latest technical point of view. At the same time, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Chien-Yao Wang , Hong-Yuan Mark Liao

Low-light conditions and occluded scenarios impede object detection in real-world Internet of Things (IoT) applications like autonomous vehicles and security systems. While advanced machine learning models strive for accuracy, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Shubhabrata Mukherjee , Cory Beard , Zhu Li

Recent advancements in lightweight neural networks have significantly improved the efficiency of deploying deep learning models on edge hardware. However, most existing architectures still trade accuracy for latency, which limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Sudhakar Sah , Ravish Kumar

Spot spraying represents an efficient and sustainable method for reducing the amount of pesticides, particularly herbicides, used in agricultural fields. To achieve this, it is of utmost importance to reliably differentiate between crops…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Alicia Allmendinger , Ahmet Oğuz Saltık , Gerassimos G. Peteinatos , Anthony Stein , Roland Gerhards

Recently, many researchers have attempted to improve deep learning-based object detection models, both in terms of accuracy and operational speeds. However, frequently, there is a trade-off between speed and accuracy of such models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Sannidhi P Kumar , Chandan Gautam , Suresh Sundaram

In this paper, we aim to design an efficient real-time object detector that exceeds the YOLO series and is easily extensible for many object recognition tasks such as instance segmentation and rotated object detection. To obtain a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Chengqi Lyu , Wenwei Zhang , Haian Huang , Yue Zhou , Yudong Wang , Yanyi Liu , Shilong Zhang , Kai Chen

Small object detection remains a challenging problem in the field of object detection. To address this challenge, we propose an enhanced YOLOv8-based model, SOD-YOLO. This model integrates an ASF mechanism in the neck to enhance multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Peijun Wang , Jinhua Zhao

Being effective and efficient is essential to an object detector for practical use. To meet these two concerns, we comprehensively evaluate a collection of existing refinements to improve the performance of PP-YOLO while almost keep the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Xin Huang , Xinxin Wang , Wenyu Lv , Xiaying Bai , Xiang Long , Kaipeng Deng , Qingqing Dang , Shumin Han , Qiwen Liu , Xiaoguang Hu , Dianhai Yu , Yanjun Ma , Osamu Yoshie

Wearable technologies are enabling plenty of new applications of computer vision, from life logging to health assistance. Many of them are required to recognize the elements of interest in the scene captured by the camera. This work studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Alberto Sabater , Luis Montesano , Ana C. Murillo

In this paper, we address the problem of detecting small, dense, and overlapping objects, a major challenge in computer vision. Our focus is on reviewing proposed methods based on deep learning supervised approaches. We provide a detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Oussama Messai , Abbass Zein-Eddine , Abdelouahid Bentamou , Mickael Picq , Nicolas Duquesne , Stéphane Puydarrieux , Yann Gavet

We introduce YOLO9000, a state-of-the-art, real-time object detection system that can detect over 9000 object categories. First we propose various improvements to the YOLO detection method, both novel and drawn from prior work. The improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Joseph Redmon , Ali Farhadi