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. SCLARO: A Dataset for Grounded Scenario-Level Scene Understanding and ScenarioCLIP for Benchmarking

    Nov 25, 2025Advik Sinha, Saurabh Atreya, Aashutosh A +2Scene Graph GenerationVisual Reasoning

    Machine Intelligence Group, Department of CS&IS, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani – Hyderabad Campus

  2. Benchmarking Nighttime Traffic Sign Recognition with Illumination-Adaptive Detection and Semantic Attribute Reasoning

    Nov 21, 2025Aditya Mishra, Akshay Agarwal, Haroon LoneTraffic Sign DetectionIntelligent Transportation Systems

    IISER Bhopal

  3. SilvaScenes: Tree Detection and Species Classification from Under-Canopy Images in Natural Forests

    Oct 10, 2025David-Alexandre Duclos, William Guimont-Martin, Gabriel Jeanson +7Instance SegmentationTree Species Classification

    Northern Robotics Laboratory, Universit´e Laval, Qu´ebec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada · D´epartement des sciences du bois et de la forˆet, Universit´e Laval, Qu´ebec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada · Institut des Sciences de la Forˆet temp´er´ee, Universit´e du Qu´ebec en Outaouais, Ripon, QC, J0V 1V0, Canada

  4. Ultralytics YOLO Evolution: An Overview of YOLO27, YOLO26, YOLO11, YOLOv8, and YOLOv5 Object Detectors for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

    Oct 6, 2025Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj KarkeeYou Only Look OnceObject Detection

    Cornell University, Biological & Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

  5. Leveraging Prior Knowledge of Diffusion Model for Person Search

    Oct 2, 2025Giyeol Kim, Sooyoung Yang, Jihyong Oh +2Object DetectionPerson Re-Identification

    GSAIM, Chung-Ang University · IPAI, Seoul National University · Department of Mathematical Sciences and RIMS, Seoul National University

  6. MOCHA: Multi-modal Objects-aware Cross-arcHitecture Alignment

    Sep 17, 2025Elena Camuffo, Francesco Barbato, Mete Ozay +2Cross-Modal Knowledge DistillationEfficient Object Detection

    Samsung R&D Institute UK, United Kingdom · University of Padova, Italy

  7. Detection of trade in products derived from threatened species using machine learning and a smartphone application

    Sep 8, 2025Ritwik Kulkarni, WU Hanqin, Enrico Di MininObject DetectionWildlife Monitoring

    Helsinki Lab of Interdisciplinary Conservation Science, Department of Geosciences and Geography, FI-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland · International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) · School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, South Africa

  8. Quaternion Approximate Networks for Enhanced Image Classification and Oriented Object Detection

    Sep 5, 2025Bryce Grant, Peng WangEquivariant Neural NetworksImage Classification

    Department of Electrical, Systems and Computer Engineering; Case Western Reserve University · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

  9. Moving Object Detection from Moving Camera Using Focus of Expansion Likelihood and Segmentation

    Jul 18, 2025Masahiro Ogawa, Qi An, Atsushi YamashitaVideo Object SegmentationObject Detection

    Department of Precision Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan · Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan

  10. Automatic Labelling for Low-Light Pedestrian Detection

    Jul 3, 2025Dimitrios Bouzoulas, Eerik Alamikkotervo, Risto OjalaObject Detection

    Energy and Mechanical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

  11. AutoExpert: Automating 3D LiDAR Annotation from Expert-Crafted Guidelines

    Jun 3, 2025Yechi Ma, Wei Hua, Shu KongAutonomous Driving DatasetsLidar-Based 3D Object Detection

    Zhejiang University · University of Macau · IAIBS

  12. M4-SAR: A Multi-Resolution, Multi-Polarization, Multi-Scene, Multi-Source Dataset and Benchmark for optical-SAR Object Detection

    May 16, 2025Chao Wang, Wei Lu, Xiang Li +2Remote SensingObject Detection

    Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China · Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China · Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China

  13. SMDDFNet: State-space Modeling and Dynamic Dual Fusion Network for Traffic Sign Detection

    May 2, 2025TianYi Yu, DaJian Zhong, Lilin WangTraffic Sign DetectionSmall Object Detection

    Collage of Infomation Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China

  14. Exploiting Stability-Plasticity Asymmetry in Pretrained Detectors for Incremental Object Detection

    Apr 14, 2025Songze Li, Qixing Xu, Tonghua Su +3Class-Incremental LearningDetection Transformer

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China · Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ), Shenzhen, China · Chongqing Research Institute of HIT, Chongqing, China +2

  15. Fine-Grained Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with Fined-Grained Prompts: Task, Dataset and Benchmark

    Mar 19, 2025Ying Liu, Yijing Hua, Haojiang Chai +2Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionObject Detection

    department of software engineering, Northeastern University, China. · His work was done in Articul8 AI.

  16. AdaptiveCDM: Source-Free Few-Shot Domain Adaptation for Cell Detection in Microscopic Images

    Mar 5, 2025Nimra Dilawar, Sara Nadeem, Javed Iqbal +2Source-Free Domain AdaptationFew-Shot Domain Adaptation

    Intelligent Machines Lab, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology University, Pakistan

  17. Smart Surveillance: Deep Learning and Hybrid Approaches for Dynamic Scene Analysis, Object Detection and Motion Tracking

    Dec 5, 2024Shahran Rahman AlveVideo SurveillanceObject Detection

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Bashundhara R/A, Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh

  18. OrientedFormer: An End-to-End Transformer-Based Oriented Object Detector in Remote Sensing Images

    Sep 29, 2024Zeyu Ding, Yong Zhou, Jiaqi Zhao +4Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingDetection Transformer

    School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, and with Mine Digitization Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, and also with Innovation Research Center of Disaster Intelligent Prevention and Emergency Rescue, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China · School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada

  19. A Comprehensive Evaluation of Deep Learning Object Detection Models on Heterogeneous Edge Devices

    Sep 25, 2024Daghash K. Alqahtani, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Maria A. Rodriguez +1Energy-Efficient MLEdge Inference

    DisNet Lab, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia · Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

  20. TiROD: Tiny Robotics Dataset and Benchmark for Continual Object Detection

    Sep 24, 2024Francesco Pasti, Riccardo De Monte, Davide Dalle Pezze +2Mobile RoboticsContinual Learning

    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, 35131, Italy.

  21. XS-VID: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Small Object Detection and Tracking in Videos

    Jul 25, 2024Jiahao Guo, Ziyang Xu, Lianjun Wu +3Small Object DetectionVideo Object Detection

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  22. A Realistic Protocol for Evaluation of Weakly Supervised Object Localization

    Apr 15, 2024Shakeeb Murtaza, Soufiane Belharbi, Marco Pedersoli +1Weakly Supervised LearningObject Detection

    LIVIA, ILLS, Dept. of Systems Engineering, ETS Montreal, Canada

  23. DyRA: Portable Dynamic Resolution Adjustment Network for Existing Detectors

    Nov 28, 2023Daeun Seo, Hoeseok Yang, Hyungshin KimObject DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    Chungnam National University, Republic of Korea · Santa Clara University, USA

  24. Hyperspectral Image Dataset for Benchmarking on Salient Object Detection

    Jun 29, 2018Nevrez Imamoglu, Yu Oishi, Xiaoqiang Zhang +4Salient Object DetectionHyperspectral Imaging

    Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan · School of Information Technology, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, China