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The YOLO (You Only Look Once) series has been a leading framework in real-time object detection, consistently improving the balance between speed and accuracy. However, integrating attention mechanisms into YOLO has been challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Rahima Khanam , Muhammad Hussain

The severe image degradation in underwater environments impairs object detection models, as traditional image enhancement methods are often not optimized for such downstream tasks. To address this, we propose AquaFeat, a novel,…

The processing of omnidirectional 360-degree images poses significant challenges for object detection due to inherent spatial distortions, wide fields of view, and ultra-high-resolution inputs. Conventional detectors such as YOLO are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Huma Hafeez , Matthew Garratt , Jo Plested , Sankaran Iyer , Arcot Sowmya

Achieving a balance between computational efficiency and detection accuracy in the realm of rotated bounding box object detection within aerial imagery is a significant challenge. While prior research has aimed at creating lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Zhifei Shi , Zongyao Yin , Sheng Chang , Xiao Yi , Xianchuan Yu

Aerial object detection in UAV imagery presents unique challenges due to the high prevalence of tiny objects, adverse environmental conditions, and strict computational constraints. Standard YOLO-based detectors fail to address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yann V. Bellec

Marine debris detection for ocean robot is crucial for ecological protection, yet performance is often degraded by low-quality images with blur, complex backgrounds, and small targets. To address these challenges, we propose YOLO-MD, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuyang Li , Jiashu Han , Yinyi Lai , Wenbin Kang , Zenghui Liu

Small object detection has been a challenging problem in the field of object detection. There has been some works that proposes improvements for this task, such as adding several attention blocks or changing the whole structure of feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Shiyi Tang , Shu Zhang , Yini Fang

Indonesia's marine ecosystems, part of the globally recognized Coral Triangle, are among the richest in biodiversity, requiring efficient monitoring tools to support conservation. Traditional fish detection methods are time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jonathan Wuntu , Muhamad Dwisnanto Putro , Rendy Syahputra

This study presents an architectural analysis of YOLOv11, the latest iteration in the YOLO (You Only Look Once) series of object detection models. We examine the models architectural innovations, including the introduction of the C3k2…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Rahima Khanam , Muhammad Hussain

Object detection, a crucial aspect of computer vision, has seen significant advancements in accuracy and robustness. Despite these advancements, practical applications still face notable challenges, primarily the inaccurate detection or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chun-Lin Ji , Tao Yu , Peng Gao , Fei Wang , Ru-Yue Yuan

While one-stage detectors like YOLOv8 offer fast training speed, they often under-perform on detecting small objects as a trade-off. This becomes even more critical when detecting tiny objects in aerial imagery due to low-resolution targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Kihyun Kim , Michalis Lazarou , Tania Stathaki

With the rapid advancement of deep learning, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery has become a key modality for ship detection. However, robust performance remains challenging in complex scenes, where clutter and speckle noise can induce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xiaojing Zhao , Shiyang Li , Zena Chu , Ying Zhang , Peinan Hao , Tianzi Yan , Jiajia Chen , Huicong Ning

The YOLO series models reign supreme in real-time object detection due to their superior accuracy and computational efficiency. However, both the convolutional architectures of YOLO11 and earlier versions and the area-based self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Mengqi Lei , Siqi Li , Yihong Wu , Han Hu , You Zhou , Xinhu Zheng , Guiguang Ding , Shaoyi Du , Zongze Wu , Yue Gao

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

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Amir Zamani , Zeinab Abedini

Modern image-based object detection models, such as YOLOv7, primarily process individual frames independently, thus ignoring valuable temporal context naturally present in videos. Meanwhile, existing video-based detection methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yitong Quan , Benjamin Kiefer , Martin Messmer , Andreas Zell

Ecological monitoring is increasingly automated by vision models, yet opaque predictions limit trust and field adoption. We present an inpainting-guided, perturbation-based explanation technique that produces photorealistic, mask-localized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Günel Aghakishiyeva , Jiayi Zhou , Saagar Arya , Julian Dale , James David Poling , Holly R. Houliston , Jamie N. Womble , Gregory D. Larsen , David W. Johnston , Brinnae Bent

Degraded underwater images decrease the accuracy of underwater object detection. However, existing methods for underwater image enhancement mainly focus on improving the indicators in visual aspects, which may not benefit the tasks of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jian Zhang , Ruiteng Zhang , Xinyue Yan , Xiting Zhuang , Ruicheng Cao

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the field of underwater image enhancement (UIE). However, its practical utility for high-level vision tasks, such as underwater object detection (UOD) in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Junjie Wen , Jinqiang Cui , Benyun Zhao , Bingxin Han , Xuchen Liu , Zhi Gao , Ben M. Chen