Object Detection

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Object detection asks models to identify what objects are present and where they appear, usually by predicting labeled bounding boxes in images or video. Common approaches include fast one-stage CNN detectors such as YOLO, proposal-based Faster R-CNN, and end-to-end transformer detectors such as DETR; feature pyramids and attention help handle objects at different scales. Work also explores oriented and 3D detection, sensor fusion, open-vocabulary recognition, and learning with limited or changing labels, with COCO, VisDrone, DOTA, KITTI, and nuScenes among the benchmarks used. A central challenge is transferring strong benchmark results to small, occluded, or unfamiliar objects and real-world conditions while keeping models efficient and evaluations reliable despite incomplete annotations.

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  1. TriDifNet: A Unified Three-Task Diffusion Network for End-to-End RGB-T Perception

    Oct 27, 2026Qianchao He, Jing Liu, Yunhao Li +1Object DetectionInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

    School of Automation Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China · School of Electrical and Control Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China

  2. OBB-PBD: Extending Parallel Box Decoding to Oriented Bounding Boxes for Referring Expression Grounding in Aerial Imagery

    Oct 26, 2026Chang Woo Song, Yeong Jun KohVisual GroundingRemote Sensing Visual Grounding

    Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea

  3. GIFT: Representation Geometry Matters for Single-Domain Generalized Object Detection

    Oct 26, 2026Yin Zhang, Yaoyue Zheng, Yongqiang Zhang +2Cross-Domain GeneralizationObject Detection

    School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology · Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University +1

  4. VERA-Hand: A Verified Multidimensional Benchmark for 2D Hand Pose Estimation in Third-Person Dynamic Gesture Videos

    Oct 23, 2026Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Hiroki TakahashiHuman Pose EstimationObject Detection

    Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan · Artificial Intelligence eXploration Research Center (AIX), The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan · Meta-Networking Research Center (MEET), The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

  5. RootDown: Deploying and Benchmarking Models for Beet-Root Detection on Edge Devices

    Oct 23, 2026Gerardus Croonen, Andreas Trondl, Julia Simon +1Object DetectionAgricultural Image Analysis

    AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Giefinggasse 4, 1210 Vienna, Austria Center for Vision, Automation & Control

  6. WeVisOne-VL: Unified Visual Perception from Objects to Pixels

    Oct 22, 2026Tianming Liang, Junyi Pan, Yuxi Li +5Image MattingFine-Grained Visual Perception

    WeChat Vision, Tencent Inc.

  7. Open-Vocabulary Models and Label Propagation for Uncertainty-aware Pseudo-Labeling of Object Detection Datasets

    Oct 21, 2026Jonathan Klees, Timo Heller, Matthias RottmannPseudo-LabelingObject Detection

    Institute of Computer Science, Osnabrück University · Department of Mathematics, University of Wuppertal

  8. FogTTA: Online Test-Time Adaptation for Robust Transformer-based Object Detection in Foggy Weather

    Oct 21, 2026Ali Abedi, Q. M. Jonathan Wu, Ning Zhang +1Object DetectionContinual Test-Time Adaptation

    University of Windsor · University of Toronto Mississauga

  9. RiO-DETRv2: Geometry-Aware Uncertainty Modeling Meets Real-Time Oriented Object Detection Transformer

    Oct 21, 2026Zhangchi Hu, Zilong He, Yifan Zhao +6Object DetectionDetection Transformer

    University of Science and Technology of China · Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center

  10. A Process-Informed, Photorealistic Digital Twin for Vision-Based Inline Inspection of C-SMC Strip Deposition

    Oct 20, 2026Patrick Flore, Fabian Röder, Kevin Chen +1Synthetic Data GenerationIndustrial Inspection

    Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH, Erwin-Schrödinger Straße, Geb. 58, Kaiserslautern, 67663, , Germany

  11. SGLDet: Spectral-aware Global-Local Dynamic Modeling for Multispectral Aerial Object Detection

    Oct 20, 2026Peng Zhang, Shuaihao Han, Tingfa Xu +1Multispectral Object DetectionObject Detection

    Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China, and also with Chongqing Innovation Center, Beijing Institute of Technology, Chongqing 401135, China

  12. S3^3E-Det: A Strict Spatial-Spectral Equivariant Detector for Multispectral Object Detection

    Oct 20, 2026Peng Zhang, Tingfa Xu, Jinrui Sui +2Multispectral Object DetectionObject Detection

    Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China. · Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Beijing Institute of Technology Chongqing Innovation Center, Chongqing 401135, China.

  13. Revealing Inter-Channel Modality Discriminability: Channel Selective Interaction Fusion Network for Optical-SAR Object Detection

    Oct 20, 2026Haojie Li, Yuanfei Huang, Lingfei Song +2Object DetectionMultimodal Object Detection

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University · Beijing Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence for Education · Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Technology and Educational Application, Ministry of Education

  14. FocusOVD: Geometric and Contextual Feature Refinement for Open-Vocabulary Small-Object Detection

    Oct 20, 2026Hanlin Kou, Beiqi Bai, Li Chen +3Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionObject Detection

    School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou,China · Sinosteel Zhengzhou Research Institute of Steel Wire Products Co., Ltd., China

  15. Residential Construction Image Dataset Using CSI Divisions for Deep Learning-based Object Detection

    Oct 18, 2026Fahad Iqbal, Shayan MirzabeigiObject Detection

    Department of Sustainable Resources Management, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA

  16. PanoDent-KD: From Generalist Knowledge Distillation to Cross-Dataset Specialist Detection and Embedded Deployment in Panoramic Radiographs

    Oct 18, 2026Muhammad Waqas Ashraf, Imad Ali Shah, Ali HassanMedical Image Object DetectionObject Detection

  17. SL-Ground: Sentence-Level Grounding for Fine-Grained Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

    Oct 17, 2026Yang-Syu Li, Cheng-Huan Yang, Chia-Yung Jui +1Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionVision-Language Grounding

    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan. · National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taichung, Taiwan.

  18. Controllable Multi-Object Insertion for Detection Data Augmentation

    Oct 17, 2026Jiyang Huang, Tianwei Zhang, Xiaoqin Zhang +2Synthetic Data AugmentationData Augmentation

    Nanyang Technological University · Zhejiang University of Technology · University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

  19. Contrastive Hypergraph Source-free Domain Adaptive Object Detection in Adverse Weather Conditions--Extended Version

    Oct 17, 2026Jicheng Yuan, Tung Kieu, Manh Nguyen-Duc +2Object DetectionSource-Free Domain Adaptation

    Open Distributed Systems, Technical University of Berlin · Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark · Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Berlin, Germany

  20. An Efficient Approach to Beetle Damage Detection of Banana Using Deep Learning

    Oct 16, 2026Md. Mehedi Hasan Naeem, Ishtiyak Ahmmad Araf, Md. Arefin Haque Mahir +1Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Trishal, Mymensingh-2224, Bangladesh

  21. Stereo LWIR-RGB Automatic Labeling for Low-Light Camera-Based VRU Detection

    Oct 16, 2026Dimitrios Bouzoulas, Pyry Jäppinen, Pejman Habibiroudkenar +2Autonomous Driving PerceptionObject Detection

    Energy and Mechanical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

  22. DICL-Qwen3VL: Decoupled Confidence Calibration for Interpretable Workwear Detection

    Oct 16, 2026Meng Wang, Wu Zeng, Mei Li +1VLM CalibrationVLM Interpretability

    School of Artificial Intelligence, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China · Hebei Technology Innovation Center for Key Components of Climbing Robots, Tangshan Polytechnic University, Tangshan 063299, China · School of Automation, Shenyang Aerospace University, Shenyang, 110136, China

  23. Replay Pruning and Few-Bit Integer Inference for Hardware-Efficient Speed-Sign Recognition

    Oct 16, 2026Se Un Park, Kyungkeon Chung, Huigeol Kim +1Channel PruningEfficient Inference

    UX Factory, Inc. · BTree Co., Ltd.

  24. Material and Defocus Cues for Occluded Object Localization in Single Hyperspectral Images: An Exploratory Study

    Oct 15, 2026Ali Zia, Jun ZhouObject DetectionHyperspectral Imaging

    School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

  25. Quantifying Annotation Agreement in Object Detection with Optimal Transport

    Oct 14, 2026Kirill Prokhorov, Alexandr A. KalininInter-Rater ReliabilityObject Detection

    Openface.io, Vilnius, Lithuania · Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

  26. The Impact of Detector Architecture, Model Scale, and Scene Density on Multi-Pedestrian Tracking

    Oct 14, 2026Pedro Manoel Herminio Alves, Dalton Cézane Gomes Valadares, Cláudio de Souza BaptistaMulti-Object TrackingObject Detection

    Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil · Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil

  27. Context-aware Bayesian Fusion for Multimodal Object Detection

    Oct 13, 2026Arunachalam Venkatachalam, Mhafuzul Islam, Marwan Yusuf +3Multimodal Object DetectionObject Detection

    imec Michigan, USA · imec and Ghent University Ghent, Belgium · imec Leuven, Belgium

  28. Concealed Handgun Detection using WiFi Signals

    Oct 13, 2026Erik Persson, David Gustafsson, Tomas WilkinsonWi-Fi SensingObject Detection

    Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI, SE-164 90 Stockholm, Sweden

  29. Squeeze-Aware-YOLO: Early Channel Recalibration and Multi-Scale Fusion for Real-Time Traffic Sign Detection

    Oct 11, 2026Mizbaul Haque Maruf, Syed Samin Sadaf, Syed Tamzid Bakht +2Traffic Sign DetectionObject Detection

    Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, Boardbazar, Gazipur, Bangladesh

  30. Real-Time Traffic Density Estimation: A Hybrid Computer Vision and Predictive Machine Learning Pipeline

    Oct 9, 2026Prince Kwabena Appiah BoaduDensity EstimationTraffic Flow Estimation

    Department of Computer Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana