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. Generalized Small Object Detection:A Point-Prompted Paradigm and Benchmark

    Apr 3, 2026Haoran Zhu, Wen Yang, Guangyou Yang +5Small Object DetectionObject Detection

    School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072 China. · Environmental Computational Science and Earth Observation Laboratory, EPFL, Sion, Switzerland. · School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China.

  2. Center-Aware Detection with Swin-based Co-DETR Framework for Cervical Cytology

    Apr 2, 2026Yan Kong, Yuan Yin, Hongan Chen +2Object DetectionMedical Image Localization

    School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. · School of Biomedical Engineering, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China. · State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.

  3. Fluently Lying: Adversarial Robustness Can Be Substrate-Dependent

    Apr 1, 2026Daye Kang, Hyeongboo BaekAdversarial Attacks on Object DetectorsAdversarial Robustness

    University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

  4. TF-SSD: A Strong Pipeline via Synergic Mask Filter for Training-free Co-salient Object Detection

    Apr 1, 2026Zhijin He, Shuo Jin, Siyue Yu +4Salient Object DetectionObject Detection

    XJTLU · University of Liverpool · China University of Petroleum (East China) +1

  5. MATHENA: Mamba-based Architectural Tooth Hierarchical Estimator and Holistic Evaluation Network for Anatomy

    Apr 1, 2026Kyeonghun Kim, Jaehyung Park, Youngung Han +17Dental ImagingMedical Imaging

    OUTTA, Seoul, South Korea · Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea · Sangmyung University, Seoul, South Korea +4

  6. PET-DINO: Unifying Visual Cues into Grounding DINO with Prompt-Enriched Training

    Apr 1, 2026Weifu Fu, Jinyang Li, Bin-Bin Gao +6Object DetectionOpen-Vocabulary Object Detection

    YouTu Lab, Tencent · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Kling Team, Kuaishou Technology

  7. Detecting Unknown Objects via Energy-based Separation for Open World Object Detection

    Mar 31, 2026Jun-Woo Heo, Keonhee Park, Gyeong-Moon ParkContinual Object DetectionObject Detection

    Korea University, South Korea · Seoul National University, South Korea

  8. Toward Generalizable Whole Brain Representations with High-Resolution Light-Sheet Data

    Mar 31, 2026Minyoung E. Kim, Dae Hee Yun, Aditi V. Patel +4Microscopy Image AnalysisObject Detection

    LifeCanvas Technologies

  9. AutoFormBench: Benchmark Dataset for Automating Form Understanding

    Mar 31, 2026Gaurab Baral, Junxiu ZhouDocument UnderstandingDocument Layout Analysis

    School of Computing and Analytics, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, 41076

  10. A Closer Look at Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection: Fine-Tuning Matters and Parallel Decoder Helps

    Mar 30, 2026Xuanlong Yu, Youyang Sha, Longfei Liu +2Few-Shot Object DetectionObject Detection

    Intellindust AI Lab · Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research, USTC

  11. BlankSkip: Early-exit Object Detection onboard Nano-drones

    Mar 30, 2026Carlo Marra, Beatrice Alessandra Motetti, Alessio Burrello +3Efficient Object DetectionObject Detection

    †Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

  12. Object Detection Based on Distributed Convolutional Neural Networks

    Mar 30, 2026Liang SunObject DetectionConvolutional Neural Networks

    Shandong University of Science and Technology, Jinan, 250031 P.R. China

  13. A Comparative Study in Surgical AI: Potential and Limitations of Data, Compute, and Scaling

    Mar 28, 2026Kirill Skobelev, Eric Fithian, Yegor Baranovski +9Surgical Video UnderstandingLanguage Model Scaling

    Center for Applied AI, Chicago Booth, Chicago, IL, USA · 2Surgical Data Science Collective, Washington D.C., USA · 3Children’s National Hospital, Washington D.C., USA +1

  14. Automated multi-class wound assessment using dedicated instance segmentation models for boundary detection and classification

    Mar 28, 2026Mehedi Hasan Tusar, Fateme Fayyazbakhsh, Igor Melnychuk +1Instance SegmentationMedical Image Classification

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri, United States of America · Missouri Protoplex, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri, United States of America · Center for Biomedical Research, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri, United States of America +2

  15. Human-Centric Perception for Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

    Mar 28, 2026Camila Laranjeira, João Macedo, Sandra Avila +2Keypoint DetectionHuman Pose Estimation

    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. · the Federal Police of Brazil. · Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. +1

  16. YOLO Object Detectors for Robotics -- a Comparative Study

    Mar 27, 2026Patryk Niżeniec, Marcin Iwanowski, Marcin GahblerObject DetectionYou Only Look Once

    Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Institute of Engineering and Technology, ul. Grudziądzka 5, 87-100 Toruń, Poland

  17. Dual-Stage Invariant Continual Learning under Extreme Visual Sparsity

    Mar 27, 2026Rangya Zhang, Jiaping Xiao, Lu Bai +2Continual Object DetectionIncremental Learning

    School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore

  18. CD-Buffer: Complementary Dual-Buffer Framework for Test-Time Adaptation in Adverse Weather Object Detection

    Mar 27, 2026Youngjun Song, Hyeongyu Kim, Dosik HwangTest-Time AdaptationObject Detection

    Yonsei University · Korea Institute of Science and Technology

  19. Knowledge-Guided Failure Prediction: Detecting When Object Detectors Miss Safety-Critical Objects

    Mar 26, 2026Jakob Paul Zimmermann, Gerrit Holzbach, David LerchObject DetectionAnomaly Detection

    Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin, Germany · Fraunhofer IOSB, Karlsruhe, Germany

  20. FSGNet: A Frequency-Aware and Semantic Guidance Network for Infrared Small Target Detection

    Mar 26, 2026Yingmei Zhang, Wangtao Bao, Yong Yang +3Infrared Small Target DetectionObject Detection

    School of Software and Internet of Things Engineering, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang 330032, China · the postdoctoral researcher, CGN Begood Technology co., Ltd, Nanchang 330032, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, China +1

  21. Training-free Detection and 6D Pose Estimation of Unseen Surgical Instruments

    Mar 26, 2026Jonas Hein, Lilian Calvet, Matthias Seibold +3Object Pose EstimationSurgical Instrument Tracking

    University Hospital Balgrist, University of Zurich, Switzerland. · ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

  22. Towards automatic smoke detector inspection: Recognition of the smoke detectors in industrial facilities and preparation for future drone integration

    Mar 25, 2026Lukas Kratochvila, Jakub Stefansky, Simon Bilik +6Object DetectionRobotic Inspection

    Department of Control and Instrumentation, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic · Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic · Institute for Research and Applications of Fuzzy Modeling, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic +2

  23. Heuristic-inspired Reasoning Priors Facilitate Data-Efficient Referring Object Detection

    Mar 25, 2026Xu Zhang, Zhe Chen, Jing Zhang +1Vision-Language GroundingObject Detection

    The University of Sydney, Australia · La Trobe University, Australia · Wuhan University, China +1

  24. Uncertainty-Aware Vision-based Risk Object Identification via Conformal Risk Tube Prediction

    Mar 25, 2026Kai-Yu Fu, Yi-Ting ChenAutonomous Driving PerceptionAutonomous Driving

    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

  25. DetPO: In-Context Learning with Multi-Modal LLMs for Few-Shot Object Detection

    Mar 24, 2026Gautam Rajendrakumar Gare, Neehar Peri, Matvei Popov +3Large Vision-Language ModelsFew-Shot Object Detection

    Carnegie Mellon University · Roboflow

  26. YOLO with Kolmogorov-Arnold networks and vision-language foundation models for interpretable object detection with trustworthy multimodal AI in computer vision perception

    Mar 24, 2026Marios Impraimakis, Daniel Vazquez, Feiyu ZhouExplainable Object DetectionObject Detection

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. · Department of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.

  27. Concept-based explanations of Segmentation and Detection models in Natural Disaster Management

    Mar 24, 2026Samar Heydari, Jawher Said, Galip Ümit Yolcu +7Explainable Object DetectionEfficient Semantic Segmentation

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany · Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

  28. TorR: Towards Brain-Inspired Task-Oriented Reasoning via Cache-Oriented Algorithm-Architecture Co-design

    Mar 24, 2026Hyunwoo Oh, SungHeon Jeong, Suyeon Jang +4Efficient Object DetectionHardware-Software Co-Design

    Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA, USA

  29. Benchmarking Recurrent Event-Based Object Detection for Industrial Multi-Class Recognition on MTevent

    Mar 23, 2026Lokeshwaran Manohar, Moritz RoidlEvent-Based Object DetectionObject Detection

    Chair of Material Handling and Warehousing, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany

  30. Real-Time Structural Detection for Indoor Navigation from 3D LiDAR Using Bird's-Eye-View Images

    Mar 20, 2026Guanliang Li, Pedro Espinosa-Angulo, David Perez-Saura +1Robotic PerceptionObject Detection

    Universidad Politécnica de Madrid