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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

Detecting small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from a ground-to-air (G2A) perspective presents significant challenges, including extremely low pixel occupancy, cluttered aerial backgrounds, and strict real-time constraints. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pengyu Chen , Haotian Sa , Yiwei Hu , Yuhan Cheng , Junbo Wang

This paper proposes an efficient, low-complexity and anchor-free object detector based on the state-of-the-art YOLO framework, which can be implemented in real time on edge computing platforms. We develop an enhanced data augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Shihan Liu , Junlin Zha , Jian Sun , Zhuo Li , Gang Wang

Deep learning has made great strides for object detection in images. The detection accuracy and computational cost of object detection depend on the spatial resolution of an image, which may be constrained by both the camera and storage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yu Hao , Haoyang Pei , Yixuan Lyu , Zhongzheng Yuan , John-Ross Rizzo , Yao Wang , Yi Fang

Small object detection in aerial imagery presents significant challenges in computer vision due to the minimal data inherent in small-sized objects and their propensity to be obscured by larger objects and background noise. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Tushar Verma , Jyotsna Singh , Yash Bhartari , Rishi Jarwal , Suraj Singh , Shubhkarman Singh

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

The rapid proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has highlighted the importance of robust and efficient object detection in diverse aerial scenarios. Detecting small objects under complex conditions, however, remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Kunwei Lv , Zhiren Xiao , Hang Ren , Ping Lan

The use of aerial drones for commercial and defense applications has benefited in many ways and is therefore utilized in several different application domains. However, they are also increasingly used for targeted attacks, posing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Dapinder Kaur , Neeraj Battish , Arnav Bhavsar , Shashi Poddar

Lidar based 3D object detection and classification tasks are essential for autonomous driving(AD). A lidar sensor can provide the 3D point cloud data reconstruction of the surrounding environment. However, real time detection in 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Xuanyu Yin , Yoko Sasaki , Weimin Wang , Kentaro Shimizu

Surface defect detection in industrial scenarios is both crucial and technically demanding due to the wide variability in defect types, irregular shapes and sizes, fine-grained requirements, and complex material textures. Although recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Jiawei Hu

With the rapid advancement of autonomous driving technology, efficient and accurate object detection capabilities have become crucial factors in ensuring the safety and reliability of autonomous driving systems. However, in low-visibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Xiguang Li , Jiafu Chen , Yunhe Sun , Na Lin , Ammar Hawbani , Liang Zhao

As mobile computing technology rapidly evolves, deploying efficient object detection algorithms on mobile devices emerges as a pivotal research area in computer vision. This study zeroes in on optimizing the YOLOv7 algorithm to boost its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Wenkai Gong

Object detection in remote sensing imagery remains a challenging task due to extreme scale variation, dense object distributions, and cluttered backgrounds. While recent detectors such as YOLOv8 have shown promising results, their backbone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xinyuan Wang , Lian Peng , Xiangcheng Li , Yilin He , KinTak U

We present YOLO, a new approach to object detection. Prior work on object detection repurposes classifiers to perform detection. Instead, we frame object detection as a regression problem to spatially separated bounding boxes and associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Joseph Redmon , Santosh Divvala , Ross Girshick , Ali Farhadi

Object detection remains an active area of research in the field of computer vision, and considerable advances and successes has been achieved in this area through the design of deep convolutional neural networks for tackling object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Alexander Wong , Mahmoud Famuori , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Francis Li , Brendan Chwyl , Jonathan Chung

With the rapid development of information technology, modern warfare increasingly relies on intelligence, making small target detection critical in military applications. The growing demand for efficient, real-time detection has created…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Xiaoxiao Ma , Junxiong Tong

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

Recently, despite the remarkable advancements in object detection, modern detectors still struggle to detect tiny objects in aerial images. One key reason is that tiny objects carry limited features that are inevitably degraded or lost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jinfu Li , Yuqi Huang , Hong Song , Ting Wang , Jianghan Xia , Yucong Lin , Jingfan Fan , Jian Yang

In this paper, we propose a method specifically aimed at improving small bird detection for the Small Object Detection Challenge for Spotting Birds 2023. Utilizing YOLOv7 model with test-time augmentation, our approach involves increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Kosuke Shigematsu

Detecting objects from aerial images poses significant challenges due to the following factors: 1) Aerial images typically have very large sizes, generally with millions or even hundreds of millions of pixels, while computational resources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Chenguang Liu , Guangshuai Gao , Ziyue Huang , Zhenghui Hu , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang