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Video camouflaged object detection (VCOD) is challenging due to dynamic environments. Existing methods face two main issues: (1) SAM-based methods struggle to separate camouflaged object edges due to model freezing, and (2) MLLM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Hua Zhang , Changjiang Luo , Ruoyu Chen

Accurate 3D object detection is essential for automated vehicles to navigate safely in complex real-world environments. Bird's Eye View (BEV) representations, which project multi-sensor data into a top-down spatial format, have emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Sanjay Kumar , Tim Brophy , Eoin Martino Grua , Ganesh Sistu , Valentina Donzella , Ciaran Eising

Visibility of natural landmarks such as Mount Fuji is a defining factor in both tourism planning and visitor experience, yet it remains difficult to predict due to rapidly changing atmospheric conditions. We present FujiView, a multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Bryceton Bible , Shah Md Nehal Hasnaeen , Hairong Qi

The combination of LiDAR and camera modalities is proven to be necessary and typical for 3D object detection according to recent studies. Existing fusion strategies tend to overly rely on the LiDAR modal in essence, which exploits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Yang Yang , Weijie Ma , Hao Chen , Linlin Ou , Xinyi Yu

Multimodal sensor fusion is an essential capability for autonomous robots, enabling object detection and decision-making in the presence of failing or uncertain inputs. While recent fusion methods excel in normal environmental conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Edoardo Palladin , Roland Dietze , Praveen Narayanan , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

Learned pointcloud representations do not generalize well with an increase in distance to the sensor. For example, at a range greater than 60 meters, the sparsity of lidar pointclouds reaches to a point where even humans cannot discern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Haolin Zhang , Dongfang Yang , Ekim Yurtsever , Keith A. Redmill , Ümit Özgüner

This paper presents a generalized model for real-time detection of flying objects that can be used for transfer learning and further research, as well as a refined model that achieves state-of-the-art results for flying object detection. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Dillon Reis , Jordan Kupec , Jacqueline Hong , Ahmad Daoudi

Object detection has been used in a wide range of industries. For example, in autonomous driving, the task of object detection is to accurately and efficiently identify and locate a large number of predefined classes of object instances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Tianhao Lin

We present a new way to detect 3D objects from multimodal inputs, leveraging both LiDAR and RGB cameras in a hybrid late-cascade scheme, that combines an RGB detection network and a 3D LiDAR detector. We exploit late fusion principles to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Carlo Sgaravatti , Roberto Basla , Riccardo Pieroni , Matteo Corno , Sergio M. Savaresi , Luca Magri , Giacomo Boracchi

More and more research works fuse the LiDAR and camera information to improve the 3D object detection of the autonomous driving system. Recently, a simple yet effective fusion framework has achieved an excellent detection performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Yun Zhao , Zhan Gong , Peiru Zheng , Hong Zhu , Shaohua Wu

Reliable dynamic object detection in cluttered environments remains a critical challenge for autonomous navigation. Purely geometric LiDAR pipelines that rely on clustering and heuristic filtering can miss dynamic obstacles when they move…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Juan Rached , Yixuan Jia , Kota Kondo , Jonathan P. How

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) increasingly depend on Multi-Sensor Fusion (MSF) to combine complementary modalities such as cameras and LiDAR for robust perception. While this redundancy is intended to safeguard against single-sensor failures,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Shahriar Rahman Khan , Raiful Hasan

Small object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery is challenging, mainly due to scale variation, structural detail degradation, and limited computational resources. In high-altitude scenarios, fine-grained features are further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xuecheng Bai , Yuxiang Wang , Chuanzhi Xu , Boyu Hu , Kang Han , Ruijie Pan , Xiaowei Niu , Xiaotian Guan , Liqiang Fu , Pengfei Ye

Occlusion caused by vegetation is an essential problem for remote sensing applications in areas, such as search and rescue, wildfire detection, wildlife observation, surveillance, border control, and others. Airborne Optical Sectioning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Francis Seits , Indrajit Kurmi , Rakesh John Amala Arokia Nathan , Rudolf Ortner , Oliver Bimber

We propose a person detector on omnidirectional images, an accurate method to generate minimal enclosing rectangles of persons. The basic idea is to adapt the qualitative detection performance of a convolutional neural network based method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Roman Seidel , André Apitzsch , Gangolf Hirtz

Integrating LiDAR and camera information in the bird's eye view (BEV) representation has demonstrated its effectiveness in 3D object detection. However, because of the fundamental disparity in geometric accuracy between these sensors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Guowen Zhang , Chenhang He , Liyi Chen , Lei Zhang

The fusion of multimodal sensor data streams such as camera images and lidar point clouds plays an important role in the operation of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Robust perception across a range of adverse weather and lighting conditions is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Shounak Sural , Nishad Sahu , Ragunathan Rajkumar

Object detection in Remote Sensing Images (RSI) is a critical task for numerous applications in Earth Observation (EO). Differing from object detection in natural images, object detection in remote sensing images faces challenges of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Bissmella Bahaduri , Zuheng Ming , Fangchen Feng , Anissa Mokraou

The rise of autonomous vehicles has significantly increased the demand for robust 3D object detection systems. While cameras and LiDAR sensors each offer unique advantages--cameras provide rich texture information and LiDAR offers precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Zitian Wang , Zehao Huang , Yulu Gao , Naiyan Wang , Si Liu

Wood defect detection is critical for ensuring quality control in the wood processing industry. However, current industrial applications face two major challenges: traditional methods are costly, subjective, and labor-intensive, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Jincheng Kang , Yi Cen , Yigang Cen , Ke Wang , Yuhan Liu