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. VistaRef: Boosting Visual Spatial Orientation Awareness for Pointing-to-Object Detection

    Jun 23, 2026Ling Li, Zhizhen Cai, Xinkun Wu +4Visual Spatial ReasoningDetection Transformer

    Tsinghua University Beijing Shi, China · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing Shi, China · Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School Shenzhen, Guangdong, China +1

  2. From Spatial to Spectral: An Efficient, Frequency-Guided Feature Representation Learner for Small Object Detection

    Jun 22, 2026Yuhan Rui, Shihan Qiao, Yibin Lou +7Frequency-Domain Feature LearningSmall Object Detection

    Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China · University of Pennsylvania

  3. Rethinking Prototype-based Similarity Learning for Few-Shot Object Detection

    Jun 22, 2026KunHo Heo, Seungjae Kim, Wongyu Lee +2Prototype-Based ClassificationFew-Shot Object Detection

    Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea

  4. Homographic Navigation: Geometry-Driven Camera Guidance for Deterministic Planar Capture

    Jun 22, 2026Dominik Kroupa, Marek Vaško, Muh Yuzril Ihza Baharuddin +1Visual NavigationObject Detection

    Ondokuz Mayıs University

  5. Modular Diffusion Models for Structured Visual Recognition

    Jun 21, 2026Siddhesh Khandelwal, Björn Ommer, Leonid SigalScene Graph GenerationUncertainty Quantification

    Department of Compute Science, University of British Columbia · Vector Institute for AI · CompVis, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich +2

  6. Automated sign detection across the Electronic Babylonian Library: A large-scale dataset and end-to-end cuneiform OCR pipeline

    Jun 21, 2026Wentao Che, Esteban Garcés Arias, Asim Niaz +2Document UnderstandingObject Detection

    Institute of Assyriology and Hittite Studies, LMU Munich, Germany · Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Germany

  7. The Power of Light: Improving Synthetic-to-Real Domain Adaptation through Physically-Based Indirect Illumination

    Jun 21, 2026Hooman Tavakoli Ghinani, Tatjana Legler, Martin RuskowskiSynthetic-to-Real Domain AdaptationIndustrial Automation

    German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany · RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  8. NegAS: Negative Label Guided Attention and Scoring for Out-of-Distribution Object Detection with Vision-Language Models

    Jun 21, 2026Yingjie Zhang, Shuai Li, Peng WangVLM RobustnessObject Detection

    Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’An, China

  9. Denoising-Enhanced Coarse-to-Fine Infrared Small Target Detection with Attention Prior-Guided Knowledge Distillation

    Jun 20, 2026Houzhang Fang, Ruixuan Huang, Qiuhuan Chen +3Attention-Guided DistillationInfrared Small Target Detection

    Xidian University, Xi’an, China · Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

  10. Motion-Aware Reinforcement Learning For Object Localization

    Jun 19, 2026Prithvi Raj Singh, Satyendra SinghObject DetectionVisual RL

    McNeese State University · Louisiana Tech University

  11. A Smart Classroom Behavior Analysis Framework with a New Highly Congested Classroom Dataset

    Jun 19, 2026Wei Xu, Maoxiang Chu, Yuelong Fan +5Human Activity RecognitionObject Detection

  12. Sea-Scan: High-Accuracy, ML-based Dark Vessel Detection and Localisation via Weakly Supervised DAS Monitoring

    Jun 19, 2026Tian Tian, Agastya Raj, Lara Flanagan +2Distributed Acoustic SensingObject Detection

    School of Computer Science and Statistics, IRIS Research Group, ADAPT Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland · School of Engineering, ADAPT Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

  13. InfantFace: Detecting infant faces in neonatal clinical environments

    Jun 18, 2026Abdullah Bin-Obaid, Maria M. Cobo, Rebeccah Slater +2HealthcareObject Detection

    Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK · Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK · Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Colegio de Ciencias Biologicas y Ambientales, Quito, Ecuador

  14. U2^2Mamba: A Two-level Nested U-structure Mamba for Salient Object Detection

    Jun 18, 2026Junhui Li, Jialu Li, Youshan ZhangMambaU-Net

    School of Electronics and Information Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Chuzhou University, Anhui, China · MS in Artificial Intelligence, Yeshiva University, New York, USA

  15. Training-Free Metrics for Synthetic Object Detection Data: A Proxy for Detector Performance

    Jun 18, 2026Myeongseok Nam, Donghun Yeo, Seungwook KimDistribution MatchingObject Detection

    GenGenAI, South Korea

  16. FPGA-Accelerated Neuromorphic Vision System for Real-Time Orbital Object Detection

    Jun 17, 2026Diego Hernández, Sebastián Valdivia, Vicente Westerhout +2Event-Based Object DetectionFPGA Acceleration

    Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Valpara´ıso, Valpara´ıso, Chile

  17. Budget-Aware Adaptive Adversarial Patches for Black-Box Object Detection

    Jun 16, 2026Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, David Fernandez +1Adversarial Patch AttacksObject Detection

    School of Computing, Clemson University, USA

  18. Structured Adversarial Camouflage via Voronoi Diagrams

    Jun 16, 2026Jens Bayer, Stefan Becker, David Münch +2Adversarial Patch AttacksObject Detection

    Fraunhofer IOSB and Fraunhofer Center for Machine Learning · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  19. Bounding Box Label Propagation for Re-Annotation of Document Layout Analysis Datasets

    Jun 16, 2026Nick Jochum, Tobias Alt-Veit, Christian Schön +3Object DetectionDocument Layout Analysis

    Insiders Technologies GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany · DFKI – German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence · RPTU – University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany

  20. Towards mm-Level Accurate UWB Radar: High-Accuracy Phase-Based Obstacle Detection through Multi-Channel Fusion

    Jun 15, 2026Jelle De Moerloose, Adnan Shahid, Eli De PoorterWireless LocalizationObject Detection

    IDLab, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University-imec, Ghent, Belgium

  21. Leveraging Deep Learning for Object and Position Recognition of Load Carriers for Autonomous Logistics Vehicles

    Jun 14, 2026Christoph Legat, Tobias Miller, Marco RiessMobile RoboticsObject Pose Estimation

    Research Group on Cognitive Autonomy & Predictive Intelligence, Technical University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg, Germany · Grenzebach Maschinenbau GmbH, Asbach-Bäumenheim, Germany

  22. Segmentation-based Detection for Efficient Multi-Task Spacecraft Perception

    Jun 13, 2026Sivaperuman Muniyasamy, Surendar DevasundaramImage SegmentationMulti-Task Learning

    University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

  23. Focus, Align, and Sustain: Counteracting Gradient Dilution in Incremental Object Detection

    Jun 13, 2026Aoting Zhang, Dongbao Yang, Chang Liu +2Class-Incremental LearningDetection Transformer

    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Nankai University +2

  24. Multi-view feature High-order Fusion for Space Weak Object Detection and Segmentation

    Jun 13, 2026Weilong Guo, Yuhan Sun, Shengyang LiImage SegmentationMulti-View Learning

    Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China · Key Laboratory of Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

  25. Learn Temporal Consistency For Robust Satellite Video Detector

    Jun 13, 2026Weilong Guo, Shengyang Li, Yanfeng GuVideo Object DetectionObject Detection

    Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China · Key Laboratory of Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China +1

  26. Gaussian Spatial Priors for Anatomy-Aware Object Detection in Surgical Videos

    Jun 13, 2026Yunfan Li, Artem Shmelev, Himanshu GuptaMedical Image AnalysisDetection Transformer

    Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY 11794, USA · Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook NY 11794, USA

  27. Context-Guided Semantic Alignment for Feature Fusion Networks

    Jun 12, 2026Hyungseop Lee, Jiho Lee, Woochul KangMulti-Scale Feature FusionObject Detection

    Department of Embedded Systems Engineering, Incheon National University, Yeonsu-gu 22012, South Korea

  28. PMOF: A Dataset and Benchmark for Passenger Monitoring Using Overhead Fisheye Cameras

    Jun 11, 2026Stella Katharina Wermuth, Qazi Arbab Ahmed, Klaus Neumann +1Domain GeneralizationObject Detection

    Hochschule Bielefeld* · Hochschule Bielefeld · Bielefeld University*

  29. Morphology-Aware Sample Assignment: Overcoming IoU Insensitivity for Surface Defect Detection

    Jun 11, 2026Pengfei Liu, Yuhan GuoIndustrial InspectionObject Detection

    Key Lab of Ultra-precision Intelligent Instrumentation, (School of Instrumentation Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology), Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin 150001, China · College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 · School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China

  30. YOLO-AMC: An Improved YOLO Architecture with Attention Mechanisms for Building Crack Detection

    Jun 11, 2026Ching-Yu Tsai, Chia-Min Lin, Chih-Hsiang Yang +2Object DetectionAttention Mechanisms

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tamkang University, Taiwan