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. Multi-Agent Object Detection Framework Based on Raspberry Pi YOLO Detector and Slack-Ollama Natural Language Interface

    Apr 14, 2026Vladimir Kalušev, Branko Brkljač, Milan BrkljačMulti-Agent OrchestrationLLM Agent Orchestration

    The Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research and Development of Serbia Fruškogorska 1, 21000 Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia · Department of Power, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad Trg Dositeja Obradovića 6, 21000 Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia · Faculty of Finance, Banking and Auditing, Alfa BK University Bulevar maršala Tolbuhina 8, 11070 Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

  2. The Second Challenge on Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection at NTIRE 2026: Methods and Results

    Apr 13, 2026Xingyu Qiu, Yuqian Fu, Jiawei Geng +71Few-Shot Object DetectionObject Detection

  3. BEM: Training-Free Background Embedding Memory for False-Positive Suppression in Real-Time Fixed-Background Camera

    Apr 13, 2026Junwoo Park, Jangho Lee, Sunho LimObject DetectionReal-Time Object Detection

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon, Republic of Korea · Army Artificial Intelligence Center, Republic of Korea Army, Gyeryong, Republic of Korea · Department of Computer Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

  4. Towards Adaptive Open-Set Object Detection via Category-Level Collaboration Knowledge Mining

    Apr 13, 2026Yuqi Ji, Junjie Ke, Lihuo He +2Object DetectionUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

    School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China, and also with the Interdisciplinary Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Information X, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710126, China. · School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

  5. Improving Layout Representation Learning Across Inconsistently Annotated Datasets via Agentic Harmonization

    Apr 13, 2026Renyu Li, Vladimir Kirilenko, Yao You +1Object DetectionDocument Layout Analysis

    Unstructured Technologies

  6. Language Prompt vs. Image Enhancement: Boosting Object Detection With CLIP in Hazy Environments

    Apr 12, 2026Jian Pang, Bingfeng Zhang, Jin Wang +3Object Detection

    College of Control Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, Shandong, P.R. China · School of Information Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, Yunnan, P.R. China · Yunnan United Vision Technology Co., Ltd., Kunming 650504, Yunnan, P.R. China

  7. A Comparative Study of Modern Object Detectors for Robust Apple Detection in Orchard Imagery

    Apr 11, 2026Mohammed Asad, Ajai Kumar Gautam, Priyanshu Dhiman +1Object DetectionAgricultural Image Analysis

    Dept. of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, India

  8. Does Your VFM Speak Plant? The Botanical Grammar of Vision Foundation Models for Object Detection

    Apr 10, 2026Lars Lundqvist, Earl Ranario, Hamid Kamangir +4Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionObject Detection

    University of California, Davis

  9. Beyond Segmentation: Structurally Informed Facade Parsing from Imperfect Images

    Apr 10, 2026Maciej Janicki, Aleksander Plocharski, Przemyslaw MusialskiObject Detection

    Warsaw University of Technology · Akces NCBR · New Jersey Institute of Technology

  10. PinpointQA: A Benchmark for Small Object-Centric Spatial Understanding in Indoor Videos

    Apr 10, 2026Zhiyu Zhou, Peilin Liu, Ruoxuan Zhang +4Spatial Reasoning BenchmarksVisual Spatial Reasoning

    Jilin University, Changchun, China · National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

  11. AI Driven Soccer Analysis Using Computer Vision

    Apr 9, 2026Adrian Manchado, Tanner Cellio, Jonathan Keane +1Soccer AnalyticsSports Video Analysis

    Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI 53202

  12. Deep Learning-Based Tracking and Lineage Reconstruction of Ligament Breakup

    Apr 9, 2026Vrushank Ahire, Vivek Kurumanghat, Mudasir Ganaie +1Multi-Object TrackingObject Detection

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Ropar, Rupnagar, 140001, Punjab, India · Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Ropar, Rupnagar, 140001, Punjab, India

  13. Generalization Under Scrutiny: Cross-Domain Detection Progresses, Pitfalls, and Persistent Challenges

    Apr 9, 2026Saniya M. Deshmukh, Kailash A. Hambarde, Hugo ProençaObject DetectionCross-Domain Generalization

    IT: Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal.

  14. DinoRADE: Full Spectral Radar-Camera Fusion with Vision Foundation Model Features for Multi-class Object Detection in Adverse Weather

    Apr 9, 2026Christof Leitgeb, Thomas Puchleitner, Max Peter Ronecker +1Object DetectionAutonomous Driving Perception

    Infineon Technologies AG, Austria · Graz University of Technology, Austria · Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH, Austria

  15. Beyond Mamba: Enhancing State-space Models with Deformable Dilated Convolutions for Multi-scale Traffic Object Detection

    Apr 9, 2026Jun Li, Yingying Shi, Zhixuan Ruan +2Object DetectionVisual SSMs

    School of Computer and Electronic Information, Nanjing Normal University, 210023, China

  16. MARINER: A 3E-Driven Benchmark for Fine-Grained Perception and Complex Reasoning in Open-Water Environments

    Apr 9, 2026Xingming Liao, Ning Chen, Muying Shu +5VLM EvaluationVisual Question Answering

    Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

  17. WUTDet: A 100K-Scale Ship Detection Dataset and Benchmarks with Dense Small Objects

    Apr 9, 2026Junxiong Liang, Mengwei Bao, Tianxiang Wang +3Ship DetectionMaritime Transportation

    School of Navigation, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430063, China · Sanya Science and Education Innovation Park, Wuhan University of Technology, Sanya 572000, China · State Key Laboratory of Maritime Technology and Safety, Wuhan 430063, China +2

  18. Telescope: Learnable Hyperbolic Foveation for Ultra-Long-Range Object Detection

    Apr 7, 2026Parker Ewen, Dmitriy Rivkin, Mario Bijelic +1Foveated VisionObject Detection

    Torc Robotics · Princeton University

  19. Weather-Conditioned Branch Routing for Robust LiDAR-Radar 3D Object Detection

    Apr 7, 2026Hongsheng Li, Lingfeng Zhang, Zexian Yang +4Radar-LiDAR FusionObject Detection

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · College of Computer and Data Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China · Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, Beijing, China +1

  20. Rethinking IRSTD: Single-Point Supervision Guided Encoder-only Framework is Enough for Infrared Small Target Detection

    Apr 7, 2026Rixiang Ni, Boyang Li, Jun Chen +6Infrared Small Target DetectionSmall Object Detection

    National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410003, China

  21. Indoor Asset Detection in Large Scale 360° Drone-Captured Imagery via 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Apr 7, 2026Monica Tang, Avideh Zakhor3D Object DetectionObject Detection

    UC Berkeley

  22. HI-MoE: Hierarchical Instance-Conditioned Mixture-of-Experts for Object Detection

    Apr 6, 2026Vadim Vashkelis, Natalia TrukhinaObject DetectionMixture-of-Experts Models

  23. RAVEN: Radar Adaptive Vision Encoders for Efficient Chirp-wise Object Detection and Segmentation

    Apr 6, 2026Anuvab Sen, Mir Sayeed Mohammad, Saibal MukhopadhyaymmWave Radar SensingEfficient Object Detection

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

  24. Advanced Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques for Enhanced Cattle Identification and Detection: A Comprehensive Review

    Apr 5, 2026Fayazunnesa Chowdhury, Syed Md. Galib, Md Nasim Adnan +3Agricultural Image AnalysisAnimal Re-Identification

    Jashore University of Science and Technology, Jashore, Bangladesh · University of Information Technology & Sciences (UITS), Dhaka, Bangladesh. · Gazipur Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh +1

  25. SARES-DEIM: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Meets DETR for Clutter-Aware SAR Ship Detection

    Apr 5, 2026Fenghao Song, Shaojing Yang, Xi ZhouObject DetectionRemote Sensing Small Object Detection

    Yunnan Normal University, No. 768, Jucheng Avenue, Chenggong District, Kunming 650500, China.

  26. Beyond Task-Driven Features for Object Detection

    Apr 4, 2026Meilun Zhou, Alina ZareObject DetectionRepresentation Learning

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA, 32611 · Artificial Intelligence and Informatics Research Institute University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA, 32611

  27. ComPrivDet: Efficient Privacy Object Detection in Compressed Domains Through Inference Reuse

    Apr 4, 2026Yunhao Yao, Zhiqiang Wang, Ruiqi Li +3Object DetectionVideo Object Detection

    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

  28. Multimodal Urban Tree Detection from Satellite and Street-Level Imagery via Annotation-Efficient Deep Learning Strategies

    Apr 3, 2026In Seon Kim, Ali MoghimiMultimodal Object DetectionObject Detection

    Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, , Davis, 95616, CA, USA · Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

  29. SFFNet: Synergistic Feature Fusion Network With Dual-Domain Edge Enhancement for UAV Image Object Detection

    Apr 3, 2026Wenfeng Zhang, Jun Ni, Yue Meng +4Object DetectionAerial Object Detection

    College of Computer and Information Science, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401333, China · CETC Yizhihang (Chongqing) Technology Co., Ltd, Chongqing 400031, China · School of Computer Engineering, Weifang University, Weifang 261061, China +1

  30. YOLOv11 Demystified: A Practical Guide to High-Performance Object Detection

    Apr 3, 2026Nikhileswara Rao SulakeObject DetectionReal-Time Object Detection

    Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, Nuzvid, India