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: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
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...
By Quratulain Nayeem, Fahmina Taranum, Mohammed Mudassir Uddin
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...
By Hao Wang
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.
By \"Umit Mert \c{C}a\u{g}lar, Alptekin Temizel
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.
By Yuhan Rui, Shihan Qiao, Yibin Lou, Mingxi Yu, Yutong Wan, Yanqiao Chen, Dongsheng Hou, Zhen Cao, Athena Zhuoming Zhong, Qi Hao
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...
By Tarek Rahman, Nazim-E-Alam, Md Kishor Morol, Jannatun Noor
arXiv:2512. 18046v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, commonly known as, drones pose increasing risks in civilian and defense settings, demanding accurate and real-time drone detection systems.
By Ami Pandat, Punna Rajasekhar, Gopika Vinod, Rohit Shukla
arXiv:2606. 03748v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time vision demands models that are accurate, efficient, and simple to deploy across diverse hardware.
By Glenn Jocher, Jing Qiu, Mengyu Liu, Shuai Lyu, Fatih Cagatay Akyon, Muhammet Esat Kalfaoglu
arXiv:2608.28706v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: ViT detectors fix a uniform token grid before any learned stage. A native-resolution aerial detector must then choose between resolving few-pixel objec...
By Khayrul Islam