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Small object detection has been a challenging problem in the field of object detection. There has been some works that proposes improvements for this task, such as adding several attention blocks or changing the whole structure of feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Shiyi Tang , Shu Zhang , Yini Fang

With the emergence of onboard vision processing for areas such as the internet of things (IoT), edge computing and autonomous robots, there is increasing demand for computationally efficient convolutional neural network (CNN) models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Daniel Barry , Munir Shah , Merel Keijsers , Humayun Khan , Banon Hopman

Detecting small unmanned aerial vehicles from RGB-infrared remote-sensing pairs remains challenging due to tiny target scale, cluttered backgrounds, and spatial misalignment between heterogeneous sensors. Existing bimodal detectors often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Liming Hou , Yueping Peng , Hexiang Hao , Ji Wang , Xuekai Zhang , Wei Tang , Zecong Ye , Xin Ying , Yubo He

General-purpose object detectors face fundamental structural limitations when applied to ship detection in satellite imagery, where the ship scale distribution is concentrated at small sizes and high aspect ratios. In conventional You Only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Seon-Hoon Kim , Yerin Kim , Hyeji Sim , Youeyun Jung , Okchul Jung , Daewon Chung

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

Small object detection has important application value in the fields of autonomous driving and drone scene analysis. As one of the most advanced object detection algorithms, YOLOv3 suffers some challenges when detecting small objects, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Baokai Liu , Fengjie He , Shiqiang Du , Jiacheng Li , Wenjie Liu

Infrared Small Target Detection (IRSTD) is a challenging task in defense applications, where complex backgrounds and tiny target sizes often result in numerous false alarms using conventional object detectors. To overcome this limitation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Alina Ciocarlan , Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle , Sidonie Lefebvre

Advancements in embedded systems and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have enhanced the capabilities of Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAVs) in computer vision. However, the integration of AI techniques o-nboard drones is constrained by their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Lucas Rey , Ana M. Bernardos , Andrzej D. Dobrzycki , David Carramiñana , Luca Bergesio , Juan A. Besada , José Ramón Casar

Object detection is considered one of the most challenging problems in this field of computer vision, as it involves the combination of object classification and object localization within a scene. Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Brendan Chywl , Francis Li , Alexander Wong

In existing medical Region of Interest (ROI) detection, there lacks an algorithm that can simultaneously satisfy both real-time performance and accuracy, not meeting the growing demand for automatic detection in medicine. Although the basic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhongwen Yu , Qiu Guan , Jianmin Yang , Zhiqiang Yang , Qianwei Zhou , Yang Chen , Feng Chen

This study presents an architectural analysis of YOLOv11, the latest iteration in the YOLO (You Only Look Once) series of object detection models. We examine the models architectural innovations, including the introduction of the C3k2…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Rahima Khanam , Muhammad Hussain

Early detection and diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy is one of the current research focuses in ophthalmology. However, due to the subtle features of micro-lesions and their susceptibility to background interference, ex-isting detection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Fei Yuhuan , Sun Xufei , Zang Ran , Wang Gengchen , Su Meng , Liu Fenghao

The rapid advancement of object detection architectures has positioned single stage detectors as the dominant solution for real-time visual perception. A primary source of computational overhead in these models lies in the deep backbone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Garvit Kumar Mittal , Sahil Tomar , Sandeep Kumar

Despite the rapid advancement of object detection algorithms, processing high-resolution images on embedded devices remains a significant challenge. Theoretically, the fully convolutional network architecture used in current real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Sangjune Shin , Dongkun Shin

Object detection in remotely sensed satellite pictures is fundamental in many fields such as biophysical, and environmental monitoring. While deep learning algorithms are constantly evolving, they have been mostly implemented and tested on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Safouane El Ghazouali , Arnaud Gucciardi , Francesca Venturini , Nicola Venturi , Michael Rueegsegger , Umberto Michelucci

Over the past decade, object detection has advanced significantly, with the YOLO (You Only Look Once) family of models transforming the landscape of real-time vision applications through unified, end-to-end detection frameworks. From…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Manikanta Kotthapalli , Deepika Ravipati , Reshma Bhatia

Due to the effective performance of multi-scale feature fusion, Path Aggregation FPN (PAFPN) is widely employed in YOLO detectors. However, it cannot efficiently and adaptively integrate high-level semantic information with low-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Zhiqiang Yang , Qiu Guan , Keer Zhao , Jianmin Yang , Xinli Xu , Haixia Long , Ying Tang

This article compares the performance of six prominent object detection algorithms, YOLOv11, RetinaNet, Fast R-CNN, YOLOv8, RT-DETR, and DETR, on the NEU-DET surface defect detection dataset, comprising images representing various metal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Arpan Maity , Tamal Ghosh

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

Nano-size drones hold enormous potential to explore unknown and complex environments. Their small size makes them agile and safe for operation close to humans and allows them to navigate through narrow spaces. However, their tiny size and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hanna Müller , Vlad Niculescu , Tommaso Polonelli , Michele Magno , Luca Benini