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. AnyDepth-DETR/-YOLO: Any-depth object detection with a single network

    May 10, 2026Woochul Kang, Hyungseop Lee, Jiho LeeEfficient Neural Network InferenceDynamic Neural Networks

    Incheon Nat’l Univ.

  2. TRAS: An Interactive Software for Tracing Tree Ring Cross Sections

    May 8, 2026Henry Marichal, Diego Passarella, Gregory RandallImage SegmentationObject Detection

    Instituto de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay · Pento.ai, Montevideo, Uruguay · Procesos Industriales de la Madera, CENUR Noreste, Universidad de la República, Tacuarembó, Uruguay

  3. Probabilistic Object Detection with Conformal Prediction

    May 8, 2026Christopher Ries, Moussa Kassem Sbeyti, Nicolas Bianco +1Autonomous Driving PerceptionConformal Prediction

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

  4. Search-based Robustness Testing of Laptop Refurbishing Robotic Software

    May 8, 2026Erblin Isaku, Hassan Sartaj, Shaukat Ali +2Automated Software TestingAdversarial Robustness

    Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo · Simula Research Laboratory · Danish Technological Institute

  5. A Marine Debris Detection Framework for Ocean Robots via Self-Attention Enhancement and Feature Interaction Optimization

    May 8, 2026Yuyang Li, Jiashu Han, Yinyi Lai +2Self-AttentionSmall Object Detection

    School of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hohai University, Changzhou, 213200, China · Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China · Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, 999077, China

  6. XiYOLO: Energy-Aware Object Detection via Iterative Architecture Search and Scaling

    May 7, 2026Tony Tran, Richie R. Suganda, Bin HuEnergy-Efficient MLEdge Inference

    Department of Research Computing University of Houston Houston, TX 77479 · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Houston Houston, TX 77479 · Department of Engineering Technology University of Houston Houston, TX 77479

  7. You Only Stack Once (YOSO): A Motion-Filtered, Deep-Learning Framework for Detecting Faint Moving Sources

    May 7, 2026Nitya Pandey, César Fuentes, Pedro Bernardinelli +15Object Detection

    Departamento de Astronom´ıa, Universidad de Chile, Camino del Observatorio 1515, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile · Centro de Excelencia en Astrof´ısica y Tecnolog´ıas Afines (CATA), Chile · Dept. of Astronomy & the DiRAC Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, USA +11

  8. AMIEOD: Adaptive Multi-Experts Image Enhancement for Object Detection in Low-Illumination Scenes

    May 7, 2026Xiaochen Huang, Honggang Chen, Weicheng Zhang +4Mixture of ExpertsLow-Light Image Enhancement

    College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China · Police Integration Computing Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, China

  9. RAWild: Sensor-Agnostic RAW Object Detection via Physics-Guided Curve and Grid Modeling

    May 7, 2026Shuhong Liu, Gengjia Chang, Jun Liu +4Domain GeneralizationObject Detection

    The University of Tokyo · I2WM · 12-bit 1/4000 360 ISO +1

  10. Backdoor Mitigation in Object Detection via Adversarial Fine-Tuning

    May 7, 2026Kealan Dunnett, Reza Arablouei, Dimity Miller +2Fine-TuningBackdoor Attacks

    Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia · CSIRO, Pullenvale QLD, Australia

  11. Reference-based Category Discovery: Unsupervised Object Detection with Category Awareness

    May 6, 2026Yichen Li, Qiankun Liu, Ying FuRepresentation LearningObject Detection

    Department of Computer Science Beijing Institute of Technology · University of Science and Technology Beijing

  12. Example-Based Object Detection

    May 6, 2026ZhiXin SunObject Detection

    PowerChina Zhongnan Engineering Corporation Limited

  13. Label-Efficient School Detection from Aerial Imagery via Weakly Supervised Pretraining and Fine-Tuning

    May 5, 2026Zakarya Elmimouni, Fares Fourati, Mohamed-Slim AlouiniWeakly Supervised LearningObject Detection

    Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia

  14. VL-SAM-v3: Memory-Guided Visual Priors for Open-World Object Detection

    May 5, 2026Chih-Chung Liu, Zhiwei Lin, Yongtao WangOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionObject Detection

    Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University, China

  15. StreakMind: AI detection and analysis of satellite streaks in astronomical images with automated database integration

    May 5, 2026Rafael Carrillo Navarro, René Duffard, Pablo García-Martín +3Object Detection

    Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada (ROA), Plaza de las Marinas s/n, 11100 San Fernando (Cádiz), Spain · Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía – CSIC, Apdo. 3004, 18080 Granada, Spain · Safran, 171 Bd de Valmy, 92700 Colombes, France +2

  16. Global-Local Feature Decoding with Adapter-Guided SAMv2 for Salient Object Detection

    May 4, 2026Morteza Moradi, Mohammad Moradi, Simone Palazzo +2Salient Object DetectionVision Foundation Model Adaptation

    University of Catania, Catania, Italy · Quintic AI, San Francisco, CA, USA

  17. Open-access model for detecting openly dumped dispersed municipal solid waste from crowdsourced UAV imagery in Sub-Saharan Africa

    May 4, 2026Steffen Knoblauch, Ram Kumar Muthusamy, Luis M. A. Bettencourt +8Object DetectionAerial Object Detection

    HeiGIT at Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany · Interdisciplinary Centre of Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany · GIScience Research Group, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany +8

  18. Beyond Known Objects: A Novel Framework for Open-Set Object Detection using Negative-Aware Norm

    May 4, 2026Yuchen Zhang, Yao Lu, Johannes BetzAutonomous Driving PerceptionOpen-Set Recognition

    TUM School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany; Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI)

  19. Heterogeneous Model Fusion for Privacy-Aware Multi-Camera Surveillance via Synthetic Domain Adaptation

    May 4, 2026Peggy Joy Lu, Wei-Yu Chen, Yao-Tsung Huang +1Synthetic Data AugmentationUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

    aDepartment of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng2026 University, Chiayi, Taiwan · bDepartment of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan · cNational Center for High-Performance Computing, Taichung, Taiwan

  20. SimPB++: Simultaneously Detecting 2D and 3D Objects from Multiple Cameras

    May 3, 2026Yingqi Tang, Zhaotie Meng, Erkang Cheng +1Autonomous Driving PerceptionMulti-View 3D Object Detection

    Nullmax · Westlake University

  21. Multi-Dataset Cross-Domain Knowledge Distillation for Unified Medical Image Segmentation, Classification, and Detection

    May 2, 2026Ceausescu Ciprian-Mihai, Anghelina Ion-Marian, Alexe Dumitru-BogdanMedical Image Object DetectionMulti-Task Learning

    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Str. Academiei, 14, Bucharest, 010014, Romania · Gheorghe Mihoc-Caius Iacob Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Applied Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Romania, Calea 13 Septembrie, 13, Bucharest, 050711, Romania

  22. Benchmarking ResNet Backbones in RT-DETR: Impact of Depth and Regularization under environmental conditions

    May 1, 2026Pamela Barboza, Víctor Castelli, Belén Pereira +3Neural Network GeneralizationDetection Transformer

    1, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Technological University of Uruguay, Rivera, Uruguay

  23. WILD SAM: A Simulated-and-Real Data Augmentation for Autonomous Driving Perception under Challenging Weather

    May 1, 2026Hamed Khatounabadi, Xiaohu Lu, Hayder RadhaSynthetic-to-Real Domain AdaptationUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

    Electrical and Computer Engineering Michigan State University East Lansing, USA

  24. Exploring the Limits of End-to-End Feature-Affinity Propagation for Single-Point Supervised Infrared Small Target Detection

    May 1, 2026Qiancheng Zhou, Wenhua ZhangInfrared Small Target DetectionObject Detection

  25. An Extended Evaluation Split for DeepSpaceYoloDataset

    Apr 30, 2026Olivier ParisotObject Detection

    Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) 5 Avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux, 4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

  26. Student Classroom Behavior Recognition Based on Improved YOLOv8s

    Apr 30, 2026Xiang Gao, Shuai HangHuman Activity RecognitionSmall Object Detection

    School of Physics and Information Technology Shaanxi Normal University Xi’an, 710062, China

  27. QYOLO: Lightweight Object Detection via Quantum Inspired Shared Channel Mixing

    Apr 29, 2026Garvit Kumar Mittal, Sahil Tomar, Sandeep KumarEfficient Neural Network InferenceQuantum-Inspired ML

    Central Research Laboratory Bharat Electronics Limited Ghaziabad, India

  28. Evaluation of Convolutional and Transformer-Based Detectors for Weed Detection in Tomato Plantations

    Apr 29, 2026Alcides Toledo Espinosa, Gerardo Antonio Álvarez Hernández, Ángel Eduardo Zamora-Suárez +2Agricultural Image AnalysisWeed Detection

    Instituto Politécnico Nacional · CIDETEC-IPN · Mexico City, Mexico +1

  29. Decoupled Prototype Matching with Vision Foundation Models for Few-Shot Industrial Object Detection

    Apr 29, 2026Hari Prasanth S. M., Nilusha Jayawickrama, Risto OjalaFew-Shot Object DetectionObject Detection

    Department of Energy and Mechanical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, 02150, Finland.

  30. Why Domain Matters: A Preliminary Study of Domain Effects in Underwater Object Detection

    Apr 28, 2026Melanie Wille, Dimity Miller, Tobias Fischer +1Distribution ShiftUnderwater Imaging

    QUT Centre for Robotics, Queensland University of Technology