The paper introduces SASC-USOD, a framework for underwater salient object detection that learns spatially adaptive coordination between two structural representations: a boundary-sensitive representation using Laplacian filtering and a region-coherent representation via dual-range anisotropic large-kernel aggregation. A spatial coordination module estimates the relative reliability of these representations and adaptively blends them based on image content. Experiments on USOD10K and USOD benchmarks show that SASC-USOD outperforms existing methods, reducing MAE by 4.07% and 23.53% respectively, and its lightweight variant achieves 21 FPS on an NVIDIA Jetson TX2 NX.
By Lin Hong, Chenhui Wang, Linan Deng, Yuning Cui, Yu Zhang, Xin Wang, Bojian Zhang, Xingchen Yang, Fumin Zhang
Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) is important for low-altitude perception, unmanned-system warning, and security monitoring. However, weak targets in infrared imagery usually occupy only a few pixels and are easily submerged by cloud clutter, ground edges, and bright noise, making it difficult for lightweight segmentation-based methods to preserve local target structures while suppressing background interference.
arXiv:2506. 12697v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Small-object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery requires preserving weak local evidence while using broader context to separate tiny foreground targets from cluttered backgrounds.
By Yuxiang Wang, Xuecheng Bai, Chuanzhi Xu, Ying Zhou, Weidong Cai
RA‑SOD is a new RGB‑Thermal salient object detection framework that explicitly models the reliability of each modality. It introduces a reliability‑conditioned representation, an uncertainty‑guided dual‑stream refinement, and a pixel‑wise modality competition mechanism to adaptively compensate degraded features and suppress unreliable evidence. Experiments on four benchmarks show that RA‑SOD achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance and remains robust under severe modality degradation.
By Hongbo Gao, Zhengyu Li, Xueru Nie, Dihao Zhu, Lijun Zhao, Yunke Wang, Chang Xu
SPEANet is a parameter‑efficient backbone for remote sensing object detection that incorporates fixed structural operators to enhance contour and frequency responses. It uses stage‑specific prior extraction and context‑conditioned response modulation, assigning smoothed contour and directional modeling to shallow features and a compact approximation‑detail interaction to deeper stages. Experiments on five benchmarks, including DOTA‑v1.0, DOTA‑v1.5, and DIOR‑R, show that SPEANet achieves high mAP scores (up to 78.55%) with only 23.0 M total parameters, of which the backbone accounts for 5.97 M.
By Wei Lu, Junjie Li, Feifei Sang, Si-Bao Chen
LiG-DETR introduces a Global-Local Reassembly framework for aerial object detection that captures high‑fidelity local features before compression and integrates them into a unified end‑to‑end DETR decoder. The method uses a shared encoder to extract both global and locally magnified features, reassembles the local features according to their spatial positions, and employs Context‑Preserved Selective Reassembly and Density‑Aware Adaptive Query Allocation to reduce redundant computation. Experiments demonstrate significant improvements on small and medium objects while maintaining strong performance on large objects, with favorable accuracy–efficiency trade‑offs and better cross‑domain generalization.
By Yupeng Zhang, Fangzhuo Gao, Juntao Cheng, Ziyi Zhao, Liang Wan, Ruize Han
arXiv:2609.23061v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Small-object detection in UAV imagery is challenged by weak visual evidence, ambiguous boundaries, dense object distributions, and complex backgrounds....
By Linduo Wei, Junjie Fan, Yijun Mai, Yong Qi
arXiv:2608.06205v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Multispectral object detection combines visible and thermal imagery to improve perception under challenging illumination and environmental conditio...
By Nima Hatami, Karim Faez, Saeed Sharifian, Hamidreza Amindavar
The paper introduces a saliency-depth conditioning approach for zero‑shot segmentation of communication‑tower components in cluttered UAV imagery. By combining appearance‑based saliency with monocular relative depth, the method creates a coarse tower prior that suppresses irrelevant background, and integrates this module with Grounded‑SAM and SAM 3 to produce SD‑Grounded‑SAM and SD‑SAM 3. Experiments on the TOW‑300 dataset show that SD‑SAM 3 achieves the best instance‑segmentation performance while SD‑Grounded‑SAM reduces false positives, with ablations confirming the complementary benefits of saliency, depth, and box refinement.
By Ali Lesani, Chul Min Yeum, Su-Min Kang
The paper introduces PGL-Net, a lightweight physics-inspired network for real‑world single image dehazing. It decouples the task into global distribution rectification and local structural refinement, using a Physics‑Inspired Affine Fusion module for global alignment and a Degradation‑Aware Modulation block for adaptive detail restoration. Experiments show that PGL‑Net, especially its Tiny variant, outperforms recent state‑of‑the‑art methods in PSNR and downstream object detection while reducing inference latency by over tenfold.
By Yifei Qu, Ru Li, Junjie Chen, Jinyuan Wu
The paper introduces S2A, a semantic-to-spatial alignment framework designed for alignment‑free RGB‑T salient object detection. It employs a global‑guided hierarchical fusion module to refine intra‑modal features, an alignment‑free cross‑modal channel attention module to exchange semantic information, and a spatial deformable cross‑attention module to recover local spatial correspondence. These components collectively reduce misalignment‑induced feature contamination and achieve competitive performance on public benchmarks without additional bells and whistles.
By Qiangqiang Zhou, Yang Luo, Yong Chen, Jiawei Xu
arXiv:2609.24494v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Accurate monocular depth estimation serves as a core enabler for single camera scene understanding. However, existing self-supervised monocular depth e...
By Xuezhi Xiang, Jiayao Liu, Heqi Xiang, Yuqi Hu, Yiming Chen, Shanjun Zhang