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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

Real-time object detection has achieved substantial progress through meticulously designed architectures and optimization strategies. However, the pursuit of high-speed inference via lightweight network designs often leads to degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Zijun Liao , Yian Zhao , Xin Shan , Yu Yan , Chang Liu , Lei Lu , Xiangyang Ji , Jie Chen

We present a new method that views object detection as a direct set prediction problem. Our approach streamlines the detection pipeline, effectively removing the need for many hand-designed components like a non-maximum suppression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Nicolas Carion , Francisco Massa , Gabriel Synnaeve , Nicolas Usunier , Alexander Kirillov , Sergey Zagoruyko

The recently proposed DEtection TRansformer (DETR) has established a fully end-to-end paradigm for object detection. However, DETR suffers from slow training convergence, which hinders its applicability to various detection tasks. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Gongjie Zhang , Zhipeng Luo , Jiaxing Huang , Shijian Lu , Eric P. Xing

Small object detection requires the detection head to scan a large number of positions on image feature maps, which is extremely hard for computation- and energy-efficient lightweight generic detectors. To accurately detect small objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Shaoyu Chen , Tianheng Cheng , Jiemin Fang , Qian Zhang , Yuan Li , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Small object detection remains a challenging problem in the field of object detection. To address this challenge, we propose an enhanced YOLOv8-based model, SOD-YOLO. This model integrates an ASF mechanism in the neck to enhance multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Peijun Wang , Jinhua Zhao

With the rapid advancement of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and computer vision technologies, object detection from UAV perspectives has emerged as a prominent research area. However, challenges for detection brought by the extremely small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Liugang Lu , Dabin He , Congxiang Liu , Zhixiang Deng

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

Multi-sensor modal fusion has demonstrated strong advantages in 3D object detection tasks. However, existing methods that fuse multi-modal features require transforming features into the bird's eye view space and may lose certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chunyong Hu , Hang Zheng , Kun Li , Jianyun Xu , Weibo Mao , Maochun Luo , Lingxuan Wang , Mingxia Chen , Qihao Peng , Kaixuan Liu , Yiru Zhao , Peihan Hao , Minzhe Liu , Kaicheng Yu

Dense object detection is widely used in automatic driving, video surveillance, and other fields. This paper focuses on the challenging task of dense object detection. Currently, detection methods based on greedy algorithms, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Yueming Huang , Chenrui Ma , Hao Zhou , Hao Wu , Guowu Yuan

Existing Real-Time Object Detection (RTOD) methods commonly adopt YOLO-like architectures for their favorable trade-off between accuracy and speed. However, these models rely on static dense computation that applies uniform processing to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xu Lin , Jinlong Peng , Zhenye Gan , Jiawen Zhu , Jun Liu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have dominated the field of detection ever since the success of AlexNet in ImageNet classification [12]. With the sweeping reform of Transformers [27] in natural language processing, Carion et al. [2]…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Chi Zhang , Lijuan Liu , Xiaoxue Zang , Frederick Liu , Hao Zhang , Xinying Song , Jindong Chen

We introduce DEIM, an innovative and efficient training framework designed to accelerate convergence in real-time object detection with Transformer-based architectures (DETR). To mitigate the sparse supervision inherent in one-to-one (O2O)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Shihua Huang , Zhichao Lu , Xiaodong Cun , Yongjun Yu , Xiao Zhou , Xi Shen

Drone-based target detection presents inherent challenges, such as the high density and overlap of targets in drone-based images, as well as the blurriness of targets under varying lighting conditions, which complicates identification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yuchen Zheng , Yuxin Jing , Jufeng Zhao , Guangmang Cui

We present Mobile-Former, a parallel design of MobileNet and transformer with a two-way bridge in between. This structure leverages the advantages of MobileNet at local processing and transformer at global interaction. And the bridge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Yinpeng Chen , Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Mengchen Liu , Xiaoyi Dong , Lu Yuan , Zicheng Liu

RT-DETR is the first real-time end-to-end transformer-based object detector. Its efficiency comes from the framework design and the Hungarian matching. However, compared to dense supervision detectors like the YOLO series, the Hungarian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Shuo Wang , Chunlong Xia , Feng Lv , Yifeng Shi

Surface defects on Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) directly compromise product reliability and safety. However, achieving high-precision detection is challenging because PCB defects are typically characterized by tiny sizes, high texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Meng Han

Transformers are a popular choice for classification tasks and as backbones for object detection tasks. However, their high latency brings challenges in their adaptation to lightweight object detection systems. We present an approximation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Dharma KC , Venkata Ravi Kiran Dayana , Meng-Lin Wu , Venkateswara Rao Cherukuri , Hau Hwang

Despite previous DETR-like methods having performed successfully in generic object detection, tiny object detection is still a challenging task for them since the positional information of object queries is not customized for detecting tiny…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yi-Xin Huang , Hou-I Liu , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

We propose ST-DETR, a Spatio-Temporal Transformer-based architecture for object detection from a sequence of temporal frames. We treat the temporal frames as sequences in both space and time and employ the full attention mechanisms to take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Eslam Mohamed , Ahmad El-Sallab