Small object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and remote sensing imagery requires preserving high-resolution detail while modeling long-range context. Adding a stride-4 detection level and r...
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....
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.
The paper introduces Cross-Scale Channel-wise Knowledge Distillation (CSCWD), a training-time framework that transfers high‑resolution spatial representations from a YOLO11m‑P2 teacher to a lightweight YOLO11n student without changing the student’s inference architecture. CSCWD aligns teacher P2 features with student P3 while also applying same‑scale distillation at deeper pyramid levels, yielding a 2.92‑point mAP@0.5 improvement over the baseline and a 2.09‑point gain over same‑scale distillation alone. In zero‑shot tests on DUT‑Anti‑UAV and on a Raspberry Pi 5, the 2.58‑million‑parameter student reaches 50.32% mAP@0.5 at 82.32 ms latency (12.15 fps) with negligible runtime or memory increase.
General-purpose object detectors lose accuracy on UAV footage, where targets span only a handful of pixels and onboard compute is limited. Prior work composes independently-validated architectural tec...
arXiv:2609.14560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose object detectors lose accuracy on UAV footage, where targets span only a handful of pixels and onboard compute is limited. Prior work c...
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:2609.13647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has made aerial-image object detection increasingly important for natural-resource mo...
arXiv:2606. 02092v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery requires models that capture both global context and local detail under tight computational budgets.
arXiv:2606. 23825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient small object detection is bottlenecked by the inherent feature scarcity of tiny targets, which is further aggravated by operations of spatial-domain detectors that indiscriminately discard critical high-frequency details.
Semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery requires models that capture both global context and local detail under tight computational budgets. Prior work typically optimizes for one of these axes: attention for global context, convolution for local detail, or compactness for efficiency.
arXiv:2609.05762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: UAV image collections contain spatially and temporally related frames, yet semantic-segmentation benchmarks commonly split them at image level. Such...