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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Face mask detection using deep learning: An approach to reduce risk of Coronavirus spread

S Sethi, M Kathuria, T Kaushik - Journal of biomedical informatics, 2021 - Elsevier
Effective strategies to restrain COVID-19 pandemic need high attention to mitigate
negatively impacted communal health and global economy, with the brim-full horizon yet to …

A survey of the four pillars for small object detection: Multiscale representation, contextual information, super-resolution, and region proposal

G Chen, H Wang, K Chen, Z Li, Z Song… - … on systems, man …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although great progress has been made in generic object detection by advanced deep
learning techniques, detecting small objects from images is still a difficult and challenging …

Extended feature pyramid network for small object detection

C Deng, M Wang, L Liu, Y Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small object detection remains an unsolved challenge because it is hard to extract the
information of small objects with only a few pixels. While scale-level corresponding detection …

An improved algorithm for small object detection based on YOLO v4 and multi-scale contextual information

SJ Ji, QH Ling, F Han - Computers and Electrical Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In real life, object detection is widely applied and plays a significant part in the field of
computer vision. However, when detecting small objects, the advanced You Only Look Once …

An improved faster R-CNN for small object detection

C Cao, B Wang, W Zhang, X Zeng, X Yan, Z Feng… - Ieee …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increase of training data and the improvement of machine performance, the object
detection method based on convolutional neural network (CNN) has become the …

Better to follow, follow to be better: Towards precise supervision of feature super-resolution for small object detection

J Noh, W Bae, W Lee, J Seo… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In spite of recent success of proposal-based CNN models for object detection, it is still
difficult to detect small objects due to the limited and distorted information that small region …

Real-time gun detection in CCTV: An open problem

JLS González, C Zaccaro, JA Álvarez-García… - Neural networks, 2020 - Elsevier
Object detectors have improved in recent years, obtaining better results and faster inference
time. However, small object detection is still a problem that has not yet a definitive solution …

Attentional feature pyramid network for small object detection

K Min, GH Lee, SW Lee - Neural Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent state-of-the-art detectors generally exploit the Feature Pyramid Networks (FPN) due
to its advantage of detecting objects at different scales. Despite significant advances in …