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Visual detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a critical task in surveillance systems due to their small physical size and environmental challenges. Although deep learning models have achieved significant progress, deploying them…

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Pretrained detectors perform well on benchmarks but often suffer performance degradation in real-world deployments due to distribution gaps between training data and target environments. COCO-like benchmarks emphasize category diversity…

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Traffic sign detection is crucial for improving road safety and advancing autonomous driving technologies. Due to the complexity of driving environments, traffic sign detection frequently encounters a range of challenges, including low…

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State-of-the-art object detection systems rely on an accurate set of region proposals. Several recent methods use a neural network architecture to hypothesize promising object locations. While these approaches are computationally efficient,…

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Surface defects on Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) directly compromise product reliability and safety. However, achieving high-precision detection is challenging because PCB defects are typically characterized by tiny sizes, high texture…

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Although convolutional neural networks have made outstanding achievements in visible light target detection, there are still many challenges in infrared small object detection because of the low signal-to-noise ratio, incomplete object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Zhonglin Chen , Anyu Geng , Jianan Jiang , Jiwu Lu , Di Wu

With the rapid advancement of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and computer vision technologies, object detection from UAV perspectives has emerged as a prominent research area. However, challenges for detection brought by the extremely small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Liugang Lu , Dabin He , Congxiang Liu , Zhixiang Deng

Dense retrieval systems increasingly need to handle complex queries. In many realistic settings, users express intent through long instructions or task-specific descriptions, while target documents remain relatively simple and static. This…

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Maintaining roadway infrastructure is essential for ensuring a safe, efficient, and sustainable transportation system. However, manual data collection for detecting road damage is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and poses safety risks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Vung Pham , Lan Dong Thi Ngoc , Duy-Linh Bui

End-to-end multi-object tracking (MOT) methods have recently achieved remarkable progress by unifying detection and association within a single framework. Despite their strong detection performance, these methods suffer from relatively low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yuqing Shao , Yuchen Yang , Rui Yu , Weilong Li , Xu Guo , Huaicheng Yan , Wei Wang , Xiao Sun

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing images poses significant challenges due to unstable image quality, small object sizes, complex backgrounds, and environmental occlusions. Small objects, in particular, occupy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xudong Wang , Yaxin Peng , Chaomin Shen

In image classification tasks, the evaluation of models' robustness to increased dataset shifts with a probabilistic framework is very well studied. However, object detection (OD) tasks pose other challenges for uncertainty estimation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Tiago Azevedo , René de Jong , Matthew Mattina , Partha Maji

Most state-of-the-art object detection systems follow an anchor-based diagram. Anchor boxes are densely proposed over the images and the network is trained to predict the boxes position offset as well as the classification confidence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Wenshuo Ma , Tingzhong Tian , Hang Xu , Yimin Huang , Zhenguo Li

As a natural disaster with high suddenness and great destructiveness, fire has long posed a major threat to human society and ecological environment. In recent years, with the rapid development of smart city and Internet of Things (IoT)…

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Drone detection in visually complex environments remains challenging due to background clutter, small object scale, and camouflage effects. While generic object detectors like YOLO exhibit strong performance in low-texture scenes, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tamara R. Lenhard , Andreas Weinmann , Tobias Koch

High-speed vision sensing is essential for real-time perception in applications such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation. Traditional frame-based vision systems suffer from motion blur, high latency, and redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Riadul Islam , Joey Mulé , Dhandeep Challagundla , Shahmir Rizvi , Sean Carson

Embodied Reference Understanding requires identifying a target object in a visual scene based on both language instructions and pointing cues. While prior works have shown progress in open-vocabulary object detection, they often fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Dogucan Yaman , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Alexander Waibel

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.…

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Speed bumps and potholes are the most common road anomalies, significantly affecting ride comfort and vehicle stability. Preview-based suspension control mitigates their impact by detecting such irregularities in advance and adjusting…

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Wear and tear detection in fleet and shared vehicle systems is a critical challenge, particularly in rental and car-sharing services, where minor damage, such as dents, scratches, and underbody impacts, often goes unnoticed or is detected…

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