A survey and performance evaluation of deep learning methods for small object detection

Y Liu, P Sun, N Wergeles, Y Shang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
In computer vision, significant advances have been made on object detection with the rapid
development of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). This paper provides a …

Recent advances in small object detection based on deep learning: A review

K Tong, Y Wu, F Zhou - Image and Vision Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
Small object detection is a challenging problem in computer vision. It has been widely
applied in defense military, transportation, industry, etc. To facilitate in-depth understanding …

No more strided convolutions or pooling: A new CNN building block for low-resolution images and small objects

R Sunkara, T Luo - Joint European conference on machine learning and …, 2022 - Springer
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made resounding success in many computer
vision tasks such as image classification and object detection. However, their performance …

A normalized Gaussian Wasserstein distance for tiny object detection

J Wang, C Xu, W Yang, L Yu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2110.13389, 2021 - arxiv.org
Detecting tiny objects is a very challenging problem since a tiny object only contains a few
pixels in size. We demonstrate that state-of-the-art detectors do not produce satisfactory …

RFLA: Gaussian receptive field based label assignment for tiny object detection

C Xu, J Wang, W Yang, H Yu, L Yu, GS **a - European conference on …, 2022 - Springer
Detecting tiny objects is one of the main obstacles hindering the development of object
detection. The performance of generic object detectors tends to drastically deteriorate on tiny …

Multi-scale positive sample refinement for few-shot object detection

J Wu, S Liu, D Huang, Y Wang - … Conference, Glasgow, UK, August 23–28 …, 2020 - Springer
Few-shot object detection (FSOD) helps detectors adapt to unseen classes with few training
instances, and is useful when manual annotation is time-consuming or data acquisition is …

Nas-fpn: Learning scalable feature pyramid architecture for object detection

G Ghiasi, TY Lin, QV Le - … of the IEEE/CVF conference on …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Current state-of-the-art convolutional architectures for object detection are manually
designed. Here we aim to learn a better architecture of feature pyramid network for object …

Detecting tiny objects in aerial images: A normalized Wasserstein distance and a new benchmark

C Xu, J Wang, W Yang, H Yu, L Yu, GS **a - ISPRS Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Tiny object detection (TOD) in aerial images is challenging since a tiny object only contains
a few pixels. State-of-the-art object detectors do not provide satisfactory results on tiny …

Deep learning-based detection from the perspective of small or tiny objects: A survey

K Tong, Y Wu - Image and Vision Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
Detecting small or tiny objects is always a difficult and challenging issue in computer vision.
In this paper, we provide a latest and comprehensive survey of deep learning-based …

Dense relation distillation with context-aware aggregation for few-shot object detection

H Hu, S Bai, A Li, J Cui, L Wang - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Conventional deep learning based methods for object detection require a large amount of
bounding box annotations for training, which is expensive to obtain such high quality …