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Detection Transformer (DETR) has redefined object detection by casting it as a set prediction task within an end-to-end framework. Despite its elegance, DETR and its variants still rely on fixed learnable queries and suffer from severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhengjian Kang , Jun Zhuang , Kangtong Mo , Qi Chen , Rui Liu , Ye Zhang

In the perception task of autonomous driving, multi-modal methods have become a trend due to the complementary characteristics of LiDAR point clouds and image data. However, the performance of multi-modal methods is usually limited by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Binglu Ren , Jianqin Yin

The recent detection transformer (DETR) simplifies the object detection pipeline by removing hand-crafted designs and hyperparameters as employed in conventional two-stage object detectors. However, how to leverage the simple yet effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Jingyi Zhang , Jiaxing Huang , Zhipeng Luo , Gongjie Zhang , Xiaoqin Zhang , Shijian Lu

Small targets are particularly difficult to detect due to their low pixel count, complex backgrounds, and varying shooting angles, which make it hard for models to extract effective features. While some large-scale models offer high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Xuerui Zhang

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

Camera, LiDAR and radar are common perception sensors for autonomous driving tasks. Robust prediction of 3D object detection is optimally based on the fusion of these sensors. To exploit their abilities wisely remains a challenge because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ziang Guo , Zakhar Yagudin , Selamawit Asfaw , Artem Lykov , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Targets in remote sensing images are usually small, weakly textured, and easily disturbed by complex backgrounds, challenging high-precision detection with general algorithms. Building on our earlier ESM-YOLO, this work presents ESM-YOLO+…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Qianqian Zhang , Xiaolong Jia , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Li Zhou , Junshe An

In recent years, significant advancements have been made in deep learning-based object detection algorithms, revolutionizing basic computer vision tasks, notably in object detection, tracking, and segmentation. This paper delves into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Kailas PS , Selvakumaran R , Palani Murugan , Ramesh Kumar , Malaya Kumar Biswal M

Existing multi-focus image fusion (MFIF) methods often fail to preserve the uncertain transition region and detect small focus areas within large defocused regions accurately. To address this issue, this study proposes a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Xilai Li , Xiaosong Li , Haishu Tan , Jinyang Li

Tiny object detection has become an active area of research because images with tiny targets are common in several important real-world scenarios. However, existing tiny object detection methods use standard deep neural networks as their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jinlai Ning , Haoyan Guan , Michael Spratling

Rotated object detection in aerial images has received increasing attention for a wide range of applications. However, it is also a challenging task due to the huge variations of scale, rotation, aspect ratio, and densely arranged targets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Feng Zhang , Xueying Wang , Shilin Zhou , Yingqian Wang

Robot vision is greatly affected by occlusions, which poses challenges to autonomous systems. The robot itself may hide targets of interest from the camera, while it moves within the field of view, leading to failures in task execution. For…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Savvas Sampaziotis , Sotiris Antonakoudis , Marios Kiatos , Fotios Dimeas , Zoe Dougleri

The trackers based on lightweight neural networks have achieved great success in the field of aerial remote sensing, most of which aggregate multi-stage deep features to lift the tracking quality. However, existing algorithms usually only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Xinglong Sun , Haijiang Sun , Shan Jiang , Jiacheng Wang , Jiasong Wang

Embedded flight devices with visual capabilities have become essential for a wide range of applications. In aerial image detection, while many existing methods have partially addressed the issue of small target detection, challenges remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Yao Xiao , Tingfa Xu , Yu Xin , Jianan Li

Model efficiency has become increasingly important in computer vision. In this paper, we systematically study neural network architecture design choices for object detection and propose several key optimizations to improve efficiency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Mingxing Tan , Ruoming Pang , Quoc V. Le

Recent advancements in LiDAR-based 3D object detection have significantly accelerated progress toward the realization of fully autonomous driving in real-world environments. Despite achieving high detection performance, most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Adwait Chandorkar , Hasan Tercan , Tobias Meisen

Early object detection (OD) is a crucial task for the safety of many dynamic systems. Current OD algorithms have limited success for small objects at a long distance. To improve the accuracy and efficiency of such a task, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Tianyi Zhang , Kishore Kasichainula , Yaoxin Zhuo , Baoxin Li , Jae-Sun Seo , Yu Cao

Open-world object detection (OWOD) is a challenging computer vision problem, where the task is to detect a known set of object categories while simultaneously identifying unknown objects. Additionally, the model must incrementally learn new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Akshita Gupta , Sanath Narayan , K J Joseph , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

The increasing deployment of small drones as tools of conflict and disruption has amplified their threat, highlighting the urgent need for effective anti-drone measures. However, the compact size of most drones presents a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Hanfang Liang , Jinming Hu , Xiaohuan Ling , Bing Wang

Object detection is the task of detecting objects in an image. In this task, the detection of small objects is particularly difficult. Other than the small size, it is also accompanied by difficulties due to blur, occlusion, and so on.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Da Huo , Marc A. Kastner , Tingwei Liu , Yasutomo Kawanishi , Takatsugu Hirayama , Takahiro Komamizu , Ichiro Ide