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In recent years, object detection has experienced impressive progress. Despite these improvements, there is still a significant gap in the performance between the detection of small and large objects. We analyze the current state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Mate Kisantal , Zbigniew Wojna , Jakub Murawski , Jacek Naruniec , Kyunghyun Cho

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

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) detection technology plays a critical role in mitigating security risks and safeguarding privacy in both military and civilian applications. However, traditional detection methods face significant challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Juanqin Liu , Leonardo Plotegher , Eloy Roura , Cristino de Souza Junior , Shaoming He

Detecting small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from a ground-to-air (G2A) perspective presents significant challenges, including extremely low pixel occupancy, cluttered aerial backgrounds, and strict real-time constraints. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pengyu Chen , Haotian Sa , Yiwei Hu , Yuhan Cheng , Junbo Wang

In this paper, the limitations of YOLOv5s model on small target detection task are deeply studied and improved. The performance of the model is successfully enhanced by introducing GhostNet-based convolutional module, RepGFPN-based Neck…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Qingyang Li , Yuchen Li , Hongyi Duan , JiaLiang Kang , Jianan Zhang , Xueqian Gan , Ruotong Xu

Fire safety consists of a complex pipeline, and it is a very important topic of concern. One of its frontal parts are the smoke detectors, which are supposed to provide an alarm prior to a massive fire appears. As they are often difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Lukas Kratochvila , Jakub Stefansky , Simon Bilik , Robert Rous , Tomas Zemcik , Michal Wolny , Frantisek Rusnak , Ondrej Cech , Karel Horak

The vast number of existing IP cameras in current road networks is an opportunity to take advantage of the captured data and analyze the video and detect any significant events. For this purpose, it is necessary to detect moving vehicles, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Iván García , Rafael Marcos Luque , Ezequiel López

Swarms of drones offer an increased sensing aperture, and having them mimic behaviors of natural swarms enhances sampling by adapting the aperture to local conditions. We demonstrate that such an approach makes detecting and tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Rakesh John Amala Arokia Nathan , Sigrid Strand , Daniel Mehrwald , Dmitriy Shutin , Oliver Bimber

This paper addresses the synthetic-to-real domain gap in object detection, focusing on training a YOLOv11 model to detect a specific object (a soup can) using only synthetic data and domain randomization strategies. The methodology involves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Luisa Torquato Niño , Hamza A. A. Gardi

Despite achieving remarkable progress in recent years, single-image super-resolution methods are developed with several limitations. Specifically, they are trained on fixed content domains with certain degradations (whether synthetic or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Xiaoyu Lin , Baran Ozaydin , Vidit Vidit , Majed El Helou , Sabine Süsstrunk

In recent years, several real-time or near real-time object detectors have been developed. However these object detectors are typically designed for first-person view images where the subject is large in the image and do not directly apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Jennifer Carlet , Bernard Abayowa

Detection and classification of objects in aerial imagery have several applications like urban planning, crop surveillance, and traffic surveillance. However, due to the lower resolution of the objects and the effect of noise in aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Dheeraj Reddy Pailla , Varghese Kollerathu , Sai Saketh Chennamsetty

Object detection and classification is one of the most important computer vision problems. Ever since the introduction of deep learning \cite{krizhevsky2012imagenet}, we have witnessed a dramatic increase in the accuracy of this object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Gurjeet Singh , Sun Miao , Shi Shi , Patrick Chiang

Most contributions on Few-Shot Object Detection (FSOD) evaluate their methods on natural images only, yet the transferability of the announced performance is not guaranteed for applications on other kinds of images. We demonstrate this with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Pierre Le Jeune

Object detection in aerial imagery presents a significant challenge due to large scale variations among objects. This paper proposes an evolutionary reinforcement learning agent, integrated within a coarse-to-fine object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jialu Zhang , Xiaoying Yang , Wentao He , Jianfeng Ren , Qian Zhang , Titian Zhao , Ruibin Bai , Xiangjian He , Jiang Liu

Following the recent advances in deep networks, object detection and tracking algorithms with deep learning backbones have been improved significantly; however, this rapid development resulted in the necessity of large amounts of annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Aybora Koksal , Kutalmis Gokalp Ince , A. Aydin Alatan

In this paper, we consider the problem where a drone has to collect semantic information to classify multiple moving targets. In particular, we address the challenge of computing control inputs that move the drone to informative viewpoints,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Álvaro Serra-Gómez , Eduardo Montijano , Wendelin Böhmer , Javier Alonso-Mora

The forthcoming era of massive drone delivery deployment in urban environments raises a need to develop reliable control and monitoring systems. While active solutions, i.e., wireless sharing of a real-time location between air traffic…

One of the important bottlenecks in training modern object detectors is the need for labeled images where bounding box annotations have to be produced for each object present in the image. This bottleneck is further exacerbated in aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Akhil Meethal , Eric Granger , Marco Pedersoli

We propose a method of improving detection precision (mAP) with the help of the prior knowledge about the scene geometry: we assume the scene to be a plane with objects placed on it. We focus our attention on autonomous robots, so given the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Ivan Khokhlov , Egor Davydenko , Ilya Osokin , Ilya Ryakin , Azer Babaev , Vladimir Litvinenko , Roman Gorbachev