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Tiny object detection is one of the key challenges in the field of object detection. The performance of most generic detectors dramatically decreases in tiny object detection tasks. The main challenge lies in extracting effective features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Bing Cao , Haiyu Yao , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu

High-resolution remote sensing imagery increasingly contains dense clusters of tiny objects, the detection of which is extremely challenging due to severe mutual occlusion and limited pixel footprints. Existing detection methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhicheng Zhao , Xuanang Fan , Lingma Sun , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang

Traditional deep learning-based object detection networks often resize images during the data preprocessing stage to achieve a uniform size and scale in the feature map. Resizing is done to facilitate model propagation and fully connected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Weile Li , Muqing Shi , Zhonghua Hong

Object detection on VHR remote sensing images plays a vital role in applications such as urban planning, land resource management, and rescue missions. The large-scale variation of the remote-sensing targets is one of the main challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Tao Chen , Ruirui Li , Jiafeng Fu , Daguang Jiang

In recent years, there are many applications of object detection in remote sensing field, which demands a great number of labeled data. However, in many cases, data is extremely rare. In this paper, we proposed a few-shot object detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Zixuan Xiao , Ping Zhong , Yuan Quan , Xuping Yin , Wei Xue

As a common method in the field of computer vision, spatial attention mechanism has been widely used in semantic segmentation of remote sensing images due to its outstanding long-range dependency modeling capability. However, remote sensing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Xiaowen Ma , Rongrong Lian , Zhenkai Wu , Renxiang Guan , Tingfeng Hong , Mengjiao Zhao , Mengting Ma , Jiangtao Nie , Zhenhong Du , Siyang Song , Wei Zhang

To mitigate the issue of minimal intrinsic features for pure data-driven methods, in this paper, we propose a novel model-driven deep network for infrared small target detection, which combines discriminative networks and conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Yimian Dai , Yiquan Wu , Fei Zhou , Kobus Barnard

The infrared small-dim target detection is one of the key techniques in the infrared search and tracking system. Since the local regions similar to infrared small-dim targets spread over the whole background, exploring the interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Fangcen Liu , Chenqiang Gao , Fang Chen , Deyu Meng , Wangmeng Zuo , Xinbo Gao

Recent years have witnessed great progress in deep learning based object detection. However, due to the domain shift problem, applying off-the-shelf detectors to an unseen domain leads to significant performance drop. To address such an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Yangtao Zheng , Di Huang , Songtao Liu , Yunhong Wang

While deep learning-based general object detection has made significant strides in recent years, the effectiveness and efficiency of small object detection remain unsatisfactory. This is primarily attributed not only to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zile Huang , Chong Zhang , Mingyu Jin , Fangyu Wu , Chengzhi Liu , Xiaobo Jin

An image is not just a collection of objects, but rather a graph where each object is related to other objects through spatial and semantic relations. Using relational reasoning modules, such as the non-local module \cite{wang2017non}, can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Hila Levi , Shimon Ullman

Small moving target detection is crucial for many defense applications but remains highly challenging due to low signal-to-noise ratios, ambiguous visual cues, and cluttered backgrounds. In this work, we propose a novel deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Guoyi Zhang , Siyang Chen , Guangsheng Xu , Zhihua Shen , Han Wang , Xiaohu Zhang

Object detection has been a building block in computer vision. Though considerable progress has been made, there still exist challenges for objects with small size, arbitrary direction, and dense distribution. Apart from natural images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Xue Yang , Jirui Yang , Junchi Yan , Yue Zhang , Tengfei Zhang , Zhi Guo , Sun Xian , Kun Fu

The aim of this research is to detect small objects with low resolution and noise. The existing real time object detection algorithm is based on the deep neural network of convolution need to perform multilevel convolution and pooling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Al-Akhir Nayan , Joyeta Saha , Ahamad Nokib Mozumder , Khan Raqib Mahmud , Abul Kalam Al Azad

Single-frame infrared small target detection remains a challenge not only due to the scarcity of intrinsic target characteristics but also because of lacking a public dataset. In this paper, we first contribute an open dataset with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Yimian Dai , Yiquan Wu , Fei Zhou , Kobus Barnard

Object detection is a challenging task in remote sensing because objects only occupy a few pixels in the images, and the models are required to simultaneously learn object locations and detection. Even though the established approaches well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Jocelyn Chanussot , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Huiyu Zhou , Jie Yang

This survey paper specially analyzed computer vision-based object detection challenges and solutions by different techniques. We mainly highlighted object detection by three different trending strategies, i.e., 1) domain adaptive deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Muhammed Muzammul , Xi Li

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

Deep-learning based salient object detection methods achieve great progress. However, the variable scale and unknown category of salient objects are great challenges all the time. These are closely related to the utilization of multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) is thus critical in both civilian and military applications. This study addresses the challenge of precisely IRSTD in complex backgrounds. Recent methods focus fundamental reliance on conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Yuxin Jing , Jufeng Zhao , Tianpei Zhang , Yiming Zhu