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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

The DEtection TRansformer (DETR) algorithm has received considerable attention in the research community and is gradually emerging as a mainstream approach for object detection and other perception tasks. However, the current field lacks a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Tianhe Ren , Shilong Liu , Feng Li , Hao Zhang , Ailing Zeng , Jie Yang , Xingyu Liao , Ding Jia , Hongyang Li , He Cao , Jianan Wang , Zhaoyang Zeng , Xianbiao Qi , Yuhui Yuan , Jianwei Yang , Lei Zhang

To address the challenges in UAV object detection, such as complex backgrounds, severe occlusion, dense small objects, and varying lighting conditions,this paper proposes PT-DETR based on RT-DETR, a novel detection algorithm specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Bingcong Huo , Zhiming Wang

Object detection is a crucial task for autonomous driving. In addition to requiring high accuracy to ensure safety, object detection for autonomous driving also requires real-time inference speed to guarantee prompt vehicle control, as well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Bichen Wu , Alvin Wan , Forrest Iandola , Peter H. Jin , Kurt Keutzer

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, celebrated for its high resolution, all-weather capability, and day-night operability, is indispensable for maritime applications. However, ship detection in SAR imagery faces significant challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Congxia Zhao , Xiongjun Fu , Jian Dong , Shen Cao , Chunyan Zhang

Despite recent advances, object detection in aerial images is still a challenging task. Specific problems in aerial images makes the detection problem harder, such as small objects, densely packed objects, objects in different sizes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Onur Can Koyun , Reyhan Kevser Keser , İbrahim Batuhan Akkaya , Behçet Uğur Töreyin

Detection Transformer-based methods have achieved significant advancements in general object detection. However, challenges remain in effectively detecting small objects. One key difficulty is that existing encoders struggle to efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Huaxiang Zhang , Hao Zhang , Aoran Mei , Zhongxue Gan , Guo-Niu Zhu

Land-cover classification using remote sensing imagery is an important Earth observation task. Recently, land cover classification has benefited from the development of fully connected neural networks for semantic segmentation. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Xueqing Deng , Yi Zhu , Yuxin Tian , Shawn Newsam

Deploying tiny object perception on edge platforms is challenging because practical systems must satisfy both strict compute budgets and end-to-end latency constraints. A common strategy is to first select a small number of candidate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xiong Zhouzhi , Zimo Zeng , Yi Chen , Shuqi Xu , Yunfeng Yan , Donglian Qi

Detection in large-scale scenes is a challenging problem due to small objects and extreme scale variation. It is essential to focus on the image regions of small objects. In this paper, we propose a novel Adaptive Zoom (AdaZoom) network as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Jingtao Xu , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang

We consider a multi-object detection problem over a sensor network (SNET) with limited range sensors. This problem complements the widely considered decentralized detection problem where all sensors observe the same object. While the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Erhan B. Ermis , Venkatesh Saligrama

We consider a multi-object detection problem over a sensor network (SNET) with limited range multi-modal sensors. Limited range sensing environment arises in a sensing field prone to signal attenuation and path losses. The general problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-12 E. Ermis , V. Saligrama

Detecting tiny objects in multimodal Red-Green-Blue-Thermal (RGBT) imagery is a critical challenge in computer vision, particularly in surveillance, search and rescue, and autonomous navigation. Drone-based scenarios exacerbate these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Peiran Peng , Tingfa Xu , Liqiang Song , Mengqi Zhu , Yuqiang Fang , Jianan Li

Object counting, which aims to count the accurate number of object instances in images, has been attracting more and more attention. However, challenges such as large scale variation, complex background interference, and non-uniform density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Guangshuai Gao , Qingjie Liu , Zhenghui Hu , Lu Li , Qi Wen , Yunhong Wang

Dense object detection is widely used in automatic driving, video surveillance, and other fields. This paper focuses on the challenging task of dense object detection. Currently, detection methods based on greedy algorithms, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Yueming Huang , Chenrui Ma , Hao Zhou , Hao Wu , Guowu Yuan

Efficient and accurate detection of small objects in manufacturing settings, such as defects and cracks, is crucial for ensuring product quality and safety. To address this issue, we proposed a comprehensive strategy by synergizing Faster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Md Sohag Mia , Abdullah Al Bary Voban , Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Abdu Naim , Md Kawsar Ahmed , Md Shariful Islam

For deployment on an embedded processor for autonomous driving, the object detection network should satisfy all of the accuracy, real-time inference, and light model size requirements. Conventional deep CNN-based detectors aim for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Seontaek Oh , Ji-Hwan You , Young-Keun Kim

Recent DEtection TRansformer-based (DETR) models have obtained remarkable performance. Its success cannot be achieved without the re-introduction of multi-scale feature fusion in the encoder. However, the excessively increased tokens in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Feng Li , Ailing Zeng , Shilong Liu , Hao Zhang , Hongyang Li , Lei Zhang , Lionel M. Ni

With the rapid advancement of remote sensing technology, high-resolution multi-modal imagery is now more widely accessible. Conventional Object detection models are trained on a single dataset, often restricted to a specific imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yuxuan Li , Xiang Li , Yunheng Li , Yicheng Zhang , Yimian Dai , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jian Yang

A fundamental challenge in point cloud object detection lies in the conflict between the extreme sparsity of distant points and the need for remote context understanding. The existing methods typically use 1D serialization to expand the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Bingwen Qiu , Yuan Liu , Junqi Bai , Tong Jiang , Ben Liang , Fangzhou Chen , Xiubao Sui , Qian Chen