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:2608.29626v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Salient object detection in optical remote sensing images (ORSI-SOD) requires dense predictions that preserve object completeness and structural contin...
By Yi Xu, Ruichao Hou, Tongwei Ren, Gangshan Wu
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.
By Amir Zamani, Zeinab Ghasemi-Naraghi
arXiv:2607. 04603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) aims to identify long distance small targets from complex infrared backgrounds, and is a fundamental task in remote sensing.
By Tianfang Zhang, Fengyi Wu, Lei Li, Chang Liu, Zhenming Peng, Huaping Zhang, Xiangyang Ji
arXiv:2608.20870v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Infrared small target detection is still challenging in remote sensing imagery, because the targets are extremely small, exhibit weak local contrast, a...
By Rui Liu, Jing Nie, Ying Fu
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...