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Self-supervised pre-training and transformer-based networks have significantly improved the performance of object detection. However, most of the current self-supervised object detection methods are built on convolutional-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Guoqiang Jin , Fan Yang , Mingshan Sun , Ruyi Zhao , Yakun Liu , Wei Li , Tianpeng Bao , Liwei Wu , Xingyu Zeng , Rui Zhao

Aiming at the detection difficulties of infrared images such as complex background, low signal-to-noise ratio, small target size and weak brightness, a lightweight infrared small target detection algorithm ISTD-YOLO based on improved YOLOv7…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shang Zhang , Yujie Cui , Ruoyan Xiong , Huanbin Zhang

Incremental few-shot learning is highly expected for practical robotics applications. On one hand, robot is desired to learn new tasks quickly and flexibly using only few annotated training samples; on the other hand, such new additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Sichao Tian , Fan Feng , Jun Ma , Chek Sing Teo , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

The recently-developed DETR approach applies the transformer encoder and decoder architecture to object detection and achieves promising performance. In this paper, we handle the critical issue, slow training convergence, and present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Depu Meng , Xiaokang Chen , Zejia Fan , Gang Zeng , Houqiang Li , Yuhui Yuan , Lei Sun , Jingdong Wang

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) remains challenging due to the scarcity of useful target cues and the presence of severe background clutter. Most current methods rely on conventional feature learning and local interaction modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Qianwen Ma , Yang Xu , Shangwei Deng , Xiaobo Li , Haofeng Hu

Keypoint detection and tracking in traditional image frames are often compromised by image quality issues such as motion blur and extreme lighting conditions. Event cameras offer potential solutions to these challenges by virtue of their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Xiangyuan Wang , Kuangyi Chen , Wen Yang , Lei Yu , Yannan Xing , Huai Yu

We present a novel method for efficiently producing semi-dense matches across images. Previous detector-free matcher LoFTR has shown remarkable matching capability in handling large-viewpoint change and texture-poor scenarios but suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Yifan Wang , Xingyi He , Sida Peng , Dongli Tan , Xiaowei Zhou

Ultra-High-Resolution (UHR) imagery has become essential for modern remote sensing, offering unprecedented spatial coverage. However, detecting small objects in such vast scenes presents a critical dilemma: retaining the original resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Jingfang Li , Haoran Zhu , Wen Yang , Jinrui Zhang , Fang Xu , Haijian Zhang , Gui-Song Xia

Recently, detection transformers (DETRs) have gradually taken a dominant position in 2D detection thanks to their elegant framework. However, DETR-based detectors for 3D point clouds are still difficult to achieve satisfactory performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Zhe Liu , Jinghua Hou , Xiaoqing Ye , Tong Wang , Jingdong Wang , Xiang Bai

We tackle a new task of few-shot object counting and detection. Given a few exemplar bounding boxes of a target object class, we seek to count and detect all objects of the target class. This task shares the same supervision as the few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Thanh Nguyen , Chau Pham , Khoi Nguyen , Minh Hoai

Infrared small targets are typically tiny and locally salient, which belong to high-frequency components (HFCs) in images. Single-frame infrared small target (SIRST) detection is challenging, since there are many HFCs along with targets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ruojing Li , Chao Xiao , Qian Yin , Wei An , Nuo Chen , Xinyi Ying , Miao Li , Yingqian Wang

Recently, the dominant DETR-based approaches apply central-concept spatial prior to accelerate Transformer detector convergency. These methods gradually refine the reference points to the center of target objects and imbue object queries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Yang Liu , Yao Zhang , Yixin Wang , Yang Zhang , Jiang Tian , Zhongchao Shi , Jianping Fan , Zhiqiang He

Recently, the field of few-shot detection within remote sensing imagery has witnessed significant advancements. Despite these progresses, the capacity for continuous conceptual learning still poses a significant challenge to existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Wuzhou Li , Jiawei Zhou , Xiang Li , Yi Cao , Guang Jin , Xuemin Zhang

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

Aerial object detection using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) faces critical challenges including sub-10px targets, dense occlusions, and stringent computational constraints. Existing detectors struggle to balance accuracy and efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Liu Wenbin

Federated real-time object detection using transformers in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) faces three major challenges: (1) missing-class non-IID data heterogeneity from geographically diverse traffic environments, (2) latency…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mohoshin Ara Tahera , Sabbir Rahman , Shuvalaxmi Dass , Sharif Ullah , Mahmoud Abouyessef

The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a significant advancement in natural image segmentation, exhibiting potent zero-shot performance suitable for various downstream image segmentation tasks. However, directly utilizing the pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Mingjin Zhang , Yuchun Wang , Jie Guo , Yunsong Li , Xinbo Gao , Jing Zhang

Infrared Small Target Detection is a challenging task to separate small targets from infrared clutter background. Recently, deep learning paradigms have achieved promising results. However, these data-driven methods need plenty of manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Haoqing Li , Jinfu Yang , Yifei Xu , Runshi Wang

Hyperspectral target detection (HTD) aims to identify specific materials based on spectral information in hyperspectral imagery and can detect extremely small-sized objects, some of which occupy a smaller than one-pixel area. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhaoxu Li , Wei An , Gaowei Guo , Longguang Wang , Yingqian Wang , Zaiping Lin

Object detection is one of the most significant aspects of computer vision, and it has achieved substantial results in a variety of domains. It is worth noting that there are few studies focusing on slender object detection. CNNs are widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Wen Feng , Wang Mei , Hu Xiaojie