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 …

[HTML][HTML] A review on deep learning in UAV remote sensing

LP Osco, JM Junior, APM Ramos… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) learn representation from data with an impressive
capability, and brought important breakthroughs for processing images, time-series, natural …

DC-YOLOv8: Small-size object detection algorithm based on camera sensor

H Lou, X Duan, J Guo, H Liu, J Gu, L Bi, H Chen - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Traditional camera sensors rely on human eyes for observation. However, human eyes are
prone to fatigue when observing objects of different sizes for a long time in complex scenes …

Tood: Task-aligned one-stage object detection

C Feng, Y Zhong, Y Gao, MR Scott… - 2021 IEEE/CVF …, 2021 - computer.org
One-stage object detection is commonly implemented by optimizing two sub-tasks: object
classification and localization, using heads with two parallel branches, which might lead to a …

Focalformer3d: focusing on hard instance for 3d object detection

Y Chen, Z Yu, Y Chen, S Lan… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
False negatives (FN) in 3D object detection, eg, missing predictions of pedestrians, vehicles,
or other obstacles, can lead to potentially dangerous situations in autonomous driving. While …

Varifocalnet: An iou-aware dense object detector

H Zhang, Y Wang, F Dayoub… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Accurately ranking the vast number of candidate detections is crucial for dense object
detectors to achieve high performance. Prior work uses the classification score or a …

Generalized focal loss: Learning qualified and distributed bounding boxes for dense object detection

X Li, W Wang, L Wu, S Chen, X Hu… - Advances in neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
One-stage detector basically formulates object detection as dense classification and
localization (ie, bounding box regression). The classification is usually optimized by Focal …

Boosting R-CNN: Reweighting R-CNN samples by RPN's error for underwater object detection

P Song, P Li, L Dai, T Wang, Z Chen - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
Complicated underwater environments bring new challenges to object detection, such as
unbalanced light conditions, low contrast, occlusion, and mimicry of aquatic organisms …

Generalized focal loss: Towards efficient representation learning for dense object detection

X Li, C Lv, W Wang, G Li, L Yang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Object detection is a fundamental computer vision task that simultaneously predicts the
category and localization of the targets of interest. Recently one-stage (also termed “dense”) …

Imbalance problems in object detection: A review

K Oksuz, BC Cam, S Kalkan… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of the imbalance problems in object
detection. To analyze the problems in a systematic manner, we introduce a problem-based …