English
Related papers

Related papers: A Data-Driven RetinaNet Model for Small Object Det…

200 papers

Detecting obstacles is crucial for safe and efficient autonomous driving. To this end, we present NVRadarNet, a deep neural network (DNN) that detects dynamic obstacles and drivable free space using automotive RADAR sensors. The network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Alexander Popov , Patrik Gebhardt , Ke Chen , Ryan Oldja , Heeseok Lee , Shane Murray , Ruchi Bhargava , Nikolai Smolyanskiy

Autonomous driving holds great promise in addressing traffic safety concerns by leveraging artificial intelligence and sensor technology. Multi-Object Tracking plays a critical role in ensuring safer and more efficient navigation through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Lei Cheng , Arindam Sengupta , Siyang Cao

Detecting and identifying objects in satellite images is a very challenging task: objects of interest are often very small and features can be difficult to recognize even using very high resolution imagery. For most applications, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Damien Grosgeorge , Maxime Arbelot , Alex Goupilleau , Tugdual Ceillier , Renaud Allioux

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

Existing computer vision and object detection methods strongly rely on neural networks and deep learning. This active research area is used for applications such as autonomous driving, aerial photography, protection, and monitoring.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Imran Khan Mirani , Chen Tianhua , Malak Abid Ali Khan , Syed Muhammad Aamir , Waseef Menhaj

LiDAR-based 3D object detectors have been largely utilized in various applications, including autonomous vehicles or mobile robots. However, LiDAR-based detectors often fail to adapt well to target domains with different sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Jiyun Jang , Mincheol Chang , Jongwon Park , Jinkyu Kim

The rapid proliferation of airborne platforms, including commercial aircraft, drones, and UAVs, has intensified the need for real-time, automated threat assessment systems. Current approaches depend heavily on manual monitoring, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Prosenjit Chatterjee , ANK Zaman

The low resolution of objects of interest in aerial images makes pedestrian detection and action detection extremely challenging tasks. Furthermore, using deep convolutional neural networks to process large images can be demanding in terms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Amir Soleimani , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

The volume of space debris currently orbiting the Earth is reaching an unsustainable level at an accelerated pace. The detection, tracking, identification, and differentiation between orbit-defined, registered spacecraft, and rogue/inactive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Michele Jamrozik , Vincent Gaudillière , Mohamed Adel Musallam , Djamila Aouada

In this paper, we present LaserNet, a computationally efficient method for 3D object detection from LiDAR data for autonomous driving. The efficiency results from processing LiDAR data in the native range view of the sensor, where the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Gregory P. Meyer , Ankit Laddha , Eric Kee , Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez , Carl K. Wellington

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery presents significant challenges. Issues such as densely packed small objects, scale variations, and occlusion are commonplace. This paper introduces RT-DETR++, which enhances the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yuan Shufang

Despite advances in object detection, aerial imagery remains a challenging domain, as models often fail to generalize across variations in spatial resolution, scene composition, and semantic label coverage. Differences in geographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Michael Felsberg , Nick Pears , Yue Lu

The visual inspection of aerial drone footage is an integral part of land search and rescue (SAR) operations today. Since this inspection is a slow, tedious and error-prone job for humans, we propose a novel deep learning algorithm to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Pasi Pyrrö , Hassan Naseri , Alexander Jung

We present here, a novel network architecture called MergeNet for discovering small obstacles for on-road scenes in the context of autonomous driving. The basis of the architecture rests on the central consideration of training with less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Krishnam Gupta , Syed Ashar Javed , Vineet Gandhi , K. Madhava Krishna

Small object detection in complex scenes exposes a fundamental tension in neural network design: backbone attention distributes computation uniformly regardless of content, pyramid necks inflate activation magnitudes during upsampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Bo Gao , Jingcheng Tong , Xingsheng Chen , Han Yu , Zichen Li

Deep diffeomorphic registration faces significant challenges for high-dimensional images, especially in terms of memory limits. Existing approaches either downsample original images, or approximate underlying transformations, or reduce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Ankita Joshi , Yi Hong

Recently, deep learning technology have been extensively used in the field of image recognition. However, its main application is the recognition and detection of ordinary pictures and common scenes. It is challenging to effectively and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangcun Shan , Hongyu Wang , Wei Liang , Congcong Liu , Qizi Ma , Quan Quan

In order to deal with the sparse and unstructured raw point clouds, LiDAR based 3D object detection research mostly focuses on designing dedicated local point aggregators for fine-grained geometrical modeling. In this paper, we revisit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Jinyu Li , Chenxu Luo , Xiaodong Yang

Object detection is a crucial task in computer vision that aims to identify and localize objects in images or videos. The recent advancements in deep learning and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly improved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Hrishitva Patel

Smart monitoring using three-dimensional (3D) image sensors has been attracting attention in the context of smart cities. In smart monitoring, object detection from point cloud data acquired by 3D image sensors is implemented for detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Kairi Tokuda , Ryoichi Shinkuma , Takehiro Sato , Eiji Oki