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. Template-based Object Detection Using a Foundation Model

    Mar 20, 2026Valentin Braeutigam, Matthias Stock, Bernhard EggerObject Detection

    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany · e.solutions GmbH, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

  2. An Annotation-to-Detection Framework for Autonomous and Robust Vine Trunk Localization in the Field by Mobile Agricultural Robots

    Mar 20, 2026Dimitrios Chatziparaschis, Elia Scudiero, Brent Sams +1Multimodal Object DetectionObject Detection

    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA · Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Univ. of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA · Gallo, 600 Yosemite Blvd, Modesto, CA 95354, USA

  3. In-the-Wild Camouflage Attack on Vehicle Detectors through Controllable Image Editing

    Mar 19, 2026Xiao Fang, Yiming Gong, Stanislav Panev +4Adversarial Attacks on Object DetectorsObject Detection

    Carnegie Mellon University · DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory · Florida State University

  4. DA-Mamba: Learning Domain-Aware State Space Model for Global-Local Alignment in Domain Adaptive Object Detection

    Mar 19, 2026Haochen Li, Rui Zhang, Hantao Yao +5Object DetectionUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

    Intelligent Software Research Center, Institute of Software, CAS · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · State Key Lab of Processors, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS +1

  5. Remedying Target-Domain Astigmatism for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection

    Mar 19, 2026Yongwei Jiang, Yixiong Zou, Yuhua Li +1Few-Shot Object DetectionObject Detection

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  6. HOMEY: Heuristic Object Masking with Enhanced YOLO for Property Insurance Risk Detection

    Mar 19, 2026Teerapong PanboonyuenObject Detection

    MARSAIL

  7. MicroVision: An Open Dataset and Benchmark Models for Detecting Vulnerable Road Users and Micromobility Vehicles

    Mar 18, 2026Alexander Rasch, Rahul Rajendra PaiObject DetectionAutonomous Driving Datasets

    Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

  8. Does YOLO Really Need to See Every Training Image in Every Epoch?

    Mar 18, 2026Xingxing Xie, Jiahua Dong, Junwei Han +1Efficient Object DetectionTraining Data Selection

    School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University · School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  9. Prompt-Free Universal Region Proposal Network

    Mar 18, 2026Qihong Tang, Changhan Liu, Shaofeng Zhang +3Object Detection

    Nanjing University · University of Science and Technology of China

  10. Efficient Brood Cell Detection in Layer Trap Nests for Bees and Wasps: Balancing Labeling Effort and Species Coverage

    Mar 17, 2026Chenchang Liu, Felix Fornoff, Annika Grasreiner +3Object DetectionWildlife Monitoring

    Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ehrenbergstraße 29, Ilmenau, Thüringen 98693, Germany · Albert Ludwig University Freiburg, Stefan-Meier-Straße 76, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg 79104, Germany · Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Erbertstraße 1, Jena, Thüringen 07745, Germany +2

  11. CD-FKD: Cross-Domain Feature Knowledge Distillation for Robust Single-Domain Generalization in Object Detection

    Mar 17, 2026Junseok Lee, Sungho Shin, Seongju Lee +1Object DetectionCross-Domain Generalization

    Junseok Lee is with the Advanced Robotics Lab, LG Electronics, Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Sungho Shin is with the Place AI Flatform, Naver, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea · Seongju Lee and Kyoobin Lee are with the Department of AI Convergence, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Republic of Korea.

  12. Point-to-Mask: From Arbitrary Point Annotations to Mask-Level Infrared Small Target Detection

    Mar 17, 2026Weihua Gao, Wenlong Niu, Jie Tang +3Infrared Small Target DetectionObject Detection

    Key Laboratory of Electronics and Information Technology for Space Systems, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China. · School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.

  13. Out-of-Distribution Object Detection in Street Scenes via Synthetic Outlier Exposure and Transfer Learning

    Mar 17, 2026Sadia Ilyas, Annika Mütze, Klaus Friedrichs +2Object DetectionOOD Detection

    University of Wuppertal · Aptiv Services Deutschland GmbH · University of Osnabrück, Germany

  14. Robust Dynamic Object Detection in Cluttered Indoor Scenes via Learned Spatiotemporal Cues

    Mar 16, 2026Juan Rached, Yixuan Jia, Kota Kondo +1Occupancy Grid MappingMotion Segmentation

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

  15. Real-Time Oriented Object Detection Transformer in Remote Sensing Images

    Mar 16, 2026Zeyu Ding, Yong Zhou, Jiaqi Zhao +4Object DetectionDetection Transformer

    School of Computer Science and Technology / School of Artificial Intelligence, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China · Mine Digitization Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, Xuzhou 221116, China · Jiangsu Provincial Industrial Technology Engineering Center for Intelligent Sensing and Emergency IoT in Underground Space, Xuzhou 221116, China +1

  16. GLANCE: Gaze-Led Attention Network for Compressed Edge-inference

    Mar 16, 2026Neeraj Solanki, Hong Ding, Sepehr Tabrizchi +4Edge InferenceEfficient Object Detection

    Neeraj Solanki, Hong Ding, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Ali Shafiee Sarvestani, and Arman Roohi are with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago IL, USA. · S. Angizi is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA · D. Z. Pan is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.

  17. Detection of Autonomous Shuttles in Urban Traffic Images Using Adaptive Residual Context

    Mar 16, 2026Mohamed Aziz Younes, Nicolas Saunier, Guillaume-Alexandre BilodeauContinual Object DetectionObject Detection

    Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, Canada

  18. Exemplar Diffusion: Improving Medical Object Detection with Opportunistic Labels

    Mar 16, 2026Victor Wåhlstrand, Jennifer Alvén, Ida HäggströmMedical Image Object DetectionObject Detection

    Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41296 Göteborg, Sweden

  19. PASTE: Physics-Aware Scattering Topology Embedding Framework for SAR Object Detection

    Mar 16, 2026Jiacheng Chen, Yuxuan Xiong, Haipeng WangObject DetectionSynthetic Aperture Radar

    Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

  20. From Horizontal to Rotated: Cross-View Object Geo-Localization with Orientation Awareness

    Mar 16, 2026Chenlin Fu, Ao Gong, Yingying ZhuCross-View Geo-LocalizationObject Detection

    College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, China

  21. RadarXFormer: Robust Object Detection via Cross-Dimension Fusion of 4D Radar Spectra and Images for Autonomous Driving

    Mar 16, 2026Yue Sun, Yeqiang Qian, Zhe Wang +3Autonomous Driving Perception3D Object Detection

    Global Institute of Future Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China. · School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China. · Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing, Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China. +2

  22. Discriminative Flow Matching Via Local Generative Predictors

    Mar 14, 2026Om Govind Jha, Manoj Bamniya, Ayon BorthakurFlow MatchingObject Detection

    Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India · Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

  23. Dual-Strategy Improvement of YOLOv11n for Multi-Scale Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

    Mar 14, 2026Shuaiyu Zhu, Sergey AblameykoObject DetectionRemote Sensing Small Object Detection

    Belarusian State University, Minsk, 220030, Republic of Belarus · United Institute of Informatics Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, 220012 Republic of Belarus.

  24. Show, Don't Tell: Detecting Novel Objects by Watching Human Videos

    Mar 13, 2026James Akl, Jose Nicolas Avendano Arbelaez, James Barabas +16Object DetectionRobotic Perception

    Robotics and AI Institute (RAI) Cambridge, MA, USA

  25. CT-VDETR: Semi-supervised 3D Trauma Detection in Computed Tomography (CT) scans using Dense Vertex Relative Position Encoding

    Mar 12, 2026Shivam Chaudhary, Sheethal Bhat, Andreas MaierMedical Image AnalysisMedical Imaging

    Pattern Recognition Lab, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

  26. COTONET: A custom cotton detection algorithm based on YOLO11 for stage of growth cotton boll detection

    Mar 12, 2026Guillem González, Guillem Alenyà, Sergi FoixObject DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC), Llorens i Artigas 4-6, Barcelona, 08028, Spain

  27. Detect Anything in Real Time: From Single-Prompt Segmentation to Multi-Class Detection

    Mar 12, 2026Mehmet Kerem TurkcanObject DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    Columbia University

  28. Evaluating Few-Shot Pill Recognition Under Visual Domain Shift

    Mar 11, 2026W. I. Chu, G. Tarroni, L. LiFew-Shot Object DetectionObject Detection

    Department of Engineering, City St George’s, University of London, London, United Kingdom · Department of Computer Science, City St George’s, University of London, London, United Kingdom

  29. A dataset of medication images with instance segmentation masks for preventing adverse drug events

    Mar 11, 2026W. I. Chu, S. Hirani, G. Tarroni +1Object DetectionInstance Segmentation

    City St George’s, University of London, School of Science & Technology, London, EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom · City St George’s, University of London, School of Health & Medical Sciences, London, EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom · Imperial College London, Dept of Computer Science, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

  30. Colony Grounded SAM2: Zero-shot detection and segmentation of bacterial colonies using foundation models

    Mar 11, 2026Daan Korporaal, Patrick de Kruijf, Ralph H. G. M. Litjens +1Zero-Shot Referring Image SegmentationObject Detection

    Wageningen Food Safety Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands