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48 results for small object detection

CST-YOLO improves blood cell detection with YOLOv7 and CNN-Swin Transformer.

problem Small-scale object detection in blood cells.
method YOLOv7 architecture enhanced with CNN-Swin Transformer, W-ELAN, MCS, CatConv.
result CST-YOLO achieves 92.7%, 95.6%, and 91.1% mAP@0.5 on three blood cell datasets.

New methods detect objects in industrial settings with little training data.

problem Lack of training data limits object detection in industrial settings.
method Adapted Faster R-CNN and Scaled Yolov4-p5 architectures for small training data.
result Both models can distinguish unknown objects from homogeneous backgrounds.

This paper explores object detection in the small data regime, where only a limited number of annotated bounding boxes are available due to data rarity and annotation expense. This is a common challenge today with machine learning being applied to many new tasks where obtaining training data is more challenging, e.g. i…

2019-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes an efficient method for bounding box annotation in object detection.

problem Manual annotation of bounding boxes is tedious and resource-intensive.
method Iterative training of object detector on small batches of labeled images, with human annotator correcting errors.
result Significant reduction in human annotation effort, up to 75%.

This paper optimizes object tracking on edge devices with small matrices.

problem Efficiently tracking objects in video sequences on edge devices with small matrices.
method Parallelized a Simple Online and Real-time Tracking (SORT) application on shared-memory multicores.
result Throughput-based parallelization technique outperforms multi-threading for small matrices.

Generative models create indistinguishable adversarial objects for object detection.

problem Creating unrestricted adversarial examples for object detection.
method Search over latent space of GAN for adversarial objects.
result Generated adversarial objects are indistinguishable from non-adversarial objects and transferable.

Improved YOLOv5 model detects mask-wearing with enhanced accuracy.

problem Detecting mask-wearing in high traffic public places.
method Improved YOLOv5l with Multi-Head Attentional Self-Convolution, Swin Transformer Block, I-CBAM module, and enhanced feature fusion.
result 1.1% improvement in mAP(0.5) and 1.3% improvement in mAP(0.5:0.95) compared to YOLOv5l.

CNNs can develop blind spots due to uneven padding in feature maps.

problem Spatial bias in convolutional networks leads to blind spots in certain tasks.
method Identified and analyzed the role of padding in convolutional networks, proposing solutions to mitigate bias.
result Mitigating spatial bias improves model accuracy, especially in tasks like small object detection.

Finding Tiny Faces (by Hu and Ramanan) proposes a novel approach to find small objects in an image. Our contribution consists in deeply understanding the choices of the paper together with applying and extending a similar method to a real world subject which is the counting of people in a public demonstration.

2018-01-19abs ↗pdf ↗

CBN improves batch normalization for small mini-batch sizes.

problem Reduced effectiveness of Batch Normalization in small mini-batch sizes.
method CBN uses statistics from multiple recent iterations, compensating for network weight changes via Taylor polynomials.
result CBN outperforms original batch normalization and direct iteration statistics in object detection and image classification.

Network detection is an important capability in many areas of applied research in which data can be represented as a graph of entities and relationships. Oftentimes the object of interest is a relatively small subgraph in an enormous, potentially uninteresting background. This aspect characterizes network detection as …

2013-03-22abs ↗pdf ↗

AI enhances pollen recognition in veterinary imaging using holographic microscopy.

problem Challenges in recognizing pollen in holographic images due to speckle noise and artifacts.
method Training YOLOv8s and MobileNetV3L on dual-modality dataset, employing WGAN-SN for synthetic data augmentation.
result GAN-based augmentation improves object detection and classification in holographic images, closing the performance gap.

Proposes class-agnostic object detection to handle all objects without class labels.

problem Difficulty and cost in creating annotated datasets limit conventional object detection models to specific object types.
method Proposes class-agnostic object detection as a new problem and proposes training and evaluation protocols. Uses adversarial learning to exclude class-specific information.
result Adversarial learning improves class-agnostic detection efficacy.

Deep convolutional neural networks have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance on a number of image recognition benchmarks, including the ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC-2012). The winning model on the localization sub-task was a network that predicts a single bounding box and a confid…

2013-12-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a novel approach to weakly supervised object detection. Instead of annotated images, our method only requires two short videos to learn to detect a new object: 1) a video of a moving object and 2) one or more "negative" videos of the scene without the object. The key idea of our algorithm is to train the obj…

2019-09-17abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we demonstrate a physical adversarial patch attack against object detectors, notably the YOLOv3 detector. Unlike previous work on physical object detection attacks, which required the patch to overlap with the objects being misclassified or avoiding detection, we show that a properly designed patch can s…

2019-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Robots detect and recognize objects in real-time for better manipulation.

problem Real-time object detection and recognition for humanoid robots.
method Modified YOLOv3 algorithm, quantization, and re-arrangement of layers for low-compute NAO robots.
result Robots can perform real-time detection, recognition, and localization of objects.

New method calibrates confidence for object detection and segmentation models.

problem Intrinsically miscalibrated confidence estimates in object detection and segmentation models.
method Introduces multivariate confidence calibration for object detection and segmentation, extending ECE.
result Improves calibration, positively impacts segmentation quality.

Deep object detection improves mitotic nucleus detection in breast cancer biopsies.

problem Challenges in automated mitotic nucleus detection in breast cancer histopathological images.
method Adapted Mask R-CNN for deep object detection, initially selects candidate regions with maximum recall, refines them with multi-object loss function.
result Improved discrimination ability (F-score of 0.86) and significant precision (0.86) for mitotic nuclei compared to two-stage models.

A method detects vehicles far from tunnel CCTV using AI.

problem Tunnel CCTV's height limits detection of far-away vehicles.
method Object detection algorithm with inverse perspective transform.
result Deep learning model trained on warped images detects vehicles more accurately.

The paper examines uncertainty calibration for object detection models in autonomous driving.

problem Uncertainty in object detection predictions and its calibration.
method Definition and evaluation of semantic and spatial uncertainty, calibration methods for uncertainty distributions.
result Calibrated uncertainty improves the overall performance of object detection models in real-world scenarios.

Graph neural networks detect anomalies in object-centric business processes.

problem Detecting anomalies in graph-like business processes.
method Graph convolutional autoencoder architecture for anomaly detection.
result Promising performance in detecting anomalies at the activity type and attributes level.

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are found to be vulnerable against adversarial examples, which are carefully crafted inputs with a small magnitude of perturbation aiming to induce arbitrarily incorrect predictions. Recent studies show that adversarial examples can pose a threat to real-world security-critical applications:…

2019-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗

New method improves object detection models for long-tailed datasets.

problem Classifier imbalance in long-tail object detection datasets.
method Balanced Group Softmax (BAGS) module for balanced training of classifiers.
result Significantly improves performance of object detection models.

GraphDETR detects subgraphs in large graphs using deep learning.

problem Detecting subgraphs in large graphs efficiently and accurately.
method Formulates subgraph detection as a set prediction problem using GraphDETR, a deep learning framework.
result GraphDETR can detect diverse patterns in large graphs, achieving strong performance on molecular functional group detection.

Cooperative perception improves 3D object detection in autonomous vehicles.

problem Limited field-of-view and occlusion in single sensor data.
method Early fusion of point clouds from multiple sensors, late fusion of independently detected bounding boxes, and hybrid combination.
result Early fusion approach outperforms late fusion by significantly higher recall (95%) compared to single-point sensing (30%).

In many applications that involve processing high-dimensional data, it is important to identify a small set of entities that account for a significant fraction of detections. Rather than formalize this as a clustering problem, in which all detections must be grouped into hard or soft categories, we formalize it as an i…

2018-05-08abs ↗pdf ↗