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 …

SSPNet: Scale selection pyramid network for tiny person detection from UAV images

M Hong, S Li, Y Yang, F Zhu, Q Zhao… - IEEE geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing demand for search and rescue, it is highly demanded to detect objects of
interest in large-scale images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which is quite …

Thfe: a triple-hierarchy feature enhancement method for tiny boat detection

Y Guo, H Yu, L Ma, L Zeng, X Luo - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
In boat navigation, especially in complex sea conditions, the detection performance of the
tiny boat is related to the safety of boat sailing. However, due to the tiny boat occupying …

Anti-uav410: A thermal infrared benchmark and customized scheme for tracking drones in the wild

B Huang, J Li, J Chen, G Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The perception of drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), particularly in
infrared videos, is crucial for effective anti-UAV tasks. However, existing datasets for UAV …

Gaussian similarity-based adaptive dynamic label assignment for tiny object detection

R Fu, C Chen, S Yan, AA Heidari, X Wang… - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
Benefiting from the advanced deep learning techniques, significant achievements have
been made in generic object detection. Tiny object detection (TOD) is a challenging task in …

Mva2023 small object detection challenge for spotting birds: Dataset, methods, and results

Y Kondo, N Ukita, T Yamaguchi, HY Hou… - … on Machine Vision …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small Object Detection (SOD) is an important machine vision topic because (i) a variety of
real-world applications require object detection for distant objects and (ii) SOD is a …

Semantic rule-based construction procedural information extraction to guide jobsite sensing and monitoring

R Ren, J Zhang - Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Existing construction monitoring systems rely on designated personnel to compare a
planned procedure in the instructional documents with an execution procedure on the …

Scattering characteristic-aware fully polarized SAR ship detection network based on a four-component decomposition model

G Gao, C Zhang, L Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Model-based decomposition methods are widely used in full-polarization synthetic aperture
radar (SAR), for the inversion and interpretation of ground features and constitute an …

Finding nonrigid tiny person with densely cropped and local attention object detector networks in low-altitude aerial images

X Zhang, Y Feng, S Zhang, N Wang… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Finding tiny persons under the drone vision was, is, and remains to be an integral and
challenging task. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with high-speed, low-altitude, and multi …

Object counting in remote sensing via triple attention and scale-aware network

X Guo, M Anisetti, M Gao, G Jeon - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Object counting is a fundamental task in remote sensing analysis. Nevertheless, it has been
barely studied compared with object counting in natural images due to the challenging …