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. Real-Time EEG Cap Electrode Detection for Guided Point-of-Care Placement

    Jul 22, 2026William Lehn-Schiøler, Mads Sverker Nilsson, Nicki Skafte DetlefsenElectroencephalographyObject Detection

    BrainCapture, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark · Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark · Department of Applied Mathematics and Computing, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

  2. PRISM-DR: Per-lesion Retinal Inference with Specialist Models for Diabetic Retinopathy

    Jul 22, 2026Zübeyr Özeren, Tansel UyarMedical Image Object DetectionDiabetic Retinopathy Grading

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, Türkiye · Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ankara University, Ankara, Türkiye

  3. Synthetic and Derived Training Images for Campus Waste Detection: A Multi-Seed Evaluation with YOLOv8n

    Jul 21, 2026Ali Behbahani, Newsha Javanmardi, Shahriar Ahmed +1Synthetic Data AugmentationObject Detection

    University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

  4. Gaze-DETR: Top-Down Guidance Through Priority Maps for Infrared Weak-Small UAV Detection with DETR

    Jul 21, 2026Nian Liu, Yuxin Yang, Shubo Lin +6Infrared Small Target DetectionDetection Transformer

    State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China +3

  5. Decoupled Pipeline with Proposal Reranking and Score Fusion for Positive-Unlabeled Marine Species Detection

    Jul 21, 2026Robert James Brock, Sebastian Maximilian Krupa, Jason Kahei TamFine-Grained Image ClassificationObject Detection

    Georgia Institute of Technology, North Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30332

  6. SAR Vessel Detection and Gross Tonnage Estimation from Heterogeneous Datasets for Dark Vessel Identification

    Jul 20, 2026Davide Paltrinieri, Andrea Diecidue, Roberto Basla +3Object DetectionSynthetic Aperture Radar

    Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

  7. Toward Optimal Adenovirus Detection Using YOLO26

    Jul 20, 2026Olivier RukundoData AugmentationObject Detection

    Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering; University of Limerick; Limerick, Ireland

  8. Noise-Robust Box-Supervised Infrared Small Target Detection via Physics-Inspired Soft Label Optimization

    Jul 19, 2026Xizhe Zhang, Fan Shi, Mianzhao Wang +3Soft-Label LearningInfrared Small Target Detection

    Engineering Research Center of Learning-Based Intelligent System, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China · Key Laboratory of Computer Vision and System, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China

  9. ALLUDE: A Unified Evaluation System for Configurable Attacks in Differentiable Environments

    Jul 19, 2026Mansi Phute, Alexander Greenhalgh, Matthew Hull +8Object DetectionPhysical Adversarial Attacks

    Georgia Institute of Technology, USA · Technological Innovation Institute, UAE

  10. AdvSerial: Physical Adversarial Attacks on Infrastructure-mounted Pedestrian Detectors via Semantic Feature Suppression

    Jul 19, 2026Yuanhao Huang, Yilong Ren, Jinlei Wang +3Adversarial Patch AttacksAdversarial Attacks

    School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, 100191, Beijing, P.R China · Zhongguancun Laboratory, 100191, Beijing, P.R China · School of Systems Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, 510006, Guangzhou, P.R China +1

  11. Foundation-Assisted Active Learning for Object Detection Annotation

    Jul 18, 2026Jinchang Zhang, Arnold Zumbrun, Jing Lin +1Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing Small Object Detection

    Intelligent Vision and Sensing (IVS) Lab at Indiana University Bloomington

  12. Embodied Active Learning under Limited Annotation and Navigation Budget for Object Detection

    Jul 17, 2026Hadrien Crassous, Mohamed Yassine Kabouri, Minahil Raza +2Active LearningObject Detection

    Inria Scool, the Universit´e de Lille and also with the Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) · LAAS-CNRS, Universite de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France · Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation at Aalto University

  13. Cotton-SF YOLO: Learning Structural and Frequency Cues for Early Cotton Square Detection in Complex Field Environments

    Jul 16, 2026Chengjia Zhang, Yu Li, Feiri Ali +5Agricultural Image AnalysisFrequency-Domain Feature Learning

    School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Xichang University, No. 1 Xuefu Road, Anning Town, Xichang, 615013, Sichuan Province, China · School of Information Technology, Xichang University, No. 1 Xuefu Road, Anning Town, Xichang, 615013, Sichuan Province, China · College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, No. 17 Qinghua East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, China +1

  14. Recursive ArUco Markers: A Scalable Fiducial Marker Design for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Landing Pads

    Jul 15, 2026Rafael Munoz-Salinas, Francisco Jose Romero-Ramirez, Sergio Garrido-JuradoUAV NavigationObject Detection

    Department of Computer Science and A.I., Universidad de Córdoba, 14071, Córdoba, Spain · Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071, Córdoba, Spain

  15. Symbiosis-Inspired Knowledge Distillation for Incremental Object Detection

    Jul 15, 2026Mingyue Zeng, De Cheng, Zhipeng Xu +3Class-Incremental LearningObject Detection

    State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, School of Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China · School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China

  16. C-Norm: Cell-Distribution Normalization Enables Precision Recognition of Medical-Cell Image

    Jul 14, 2026Yang Qianl, Liu Xiany, Dai Daw +5Computational PathologyMedical Image Analysis

    Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, Chongqing, China · Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China · Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

  17. MambaPSA: A Mamba-based Replacement for C2PSA in YOLO26

    Jul 14, 2026Sheng-Wei Chan, Chia-Min Lin, Hsin-Jui Pan +4Efficient Neural Network InferenceEfficient Object Detection

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, Taiwan

  18. MicroCharNet: Less is More for License Plate Character Detection

    Jul 13, 2026Huy Che, Dinh-Duy Phan, Duc-Lung VuEdge InferenceEfficient Object Detection

    University of Information Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · 2Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  19. Confidence Scores in Open-Vocabulary Detection Are a Biased Mixture of Scale and Semantics

    Jul 13, 2026Yi Tang Soon, Jun-Wei HsiehOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionObject Detection

    Institute of Intelligence Systems, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan · College of Artificial Intelligence and Green Energy, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

  20. End-to-End Real-Time Drone-Based Person Detection Framework Using Deep Learning

    Jul 12, 2026Payel Sarmah, Ayush Ranjan, Piyush Kaushik Bhattacharyya +2Object DetectionReal-Time Object Detection

    Centre for Drone Technology Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Guwahati, India · Dept. of CSE KIIT University Bhubaneswar, India · Drone LAB National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology Bhubaneswar, India

  21. Why Domain Matters: Domain-Aware Benchmarking of Underwater Object Detection and Annotation Quality

    Jul 12, 2026Melanie Wille, Dimity Miller, Tobias Fischer +1Distribution ShiftUnderwater Imaging

    QUT Centre for Robotics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

  22. Does YOLO26 Truly Offer Advantages Over Its Predecessors for Edge Deployment? A Benchmark Study in Aquaculture

    Jul 10, 2026Rakesh Ranjan, Gajanan S. Kothawade, Kata Sharrer +2Edge InferenceYou Only Look Once

    The Conservation Fund Freshwater Institute, Shepherdstown, WV, 25443

  23. BeyondSight: Object Permanence for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Jul 10, 2026Sandro Papais, Letian Wang, Mudit Jain +2Autonomous Driving DatasetsEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    University of Toronto · Automated Driving, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

  24. Toward Active Object Detection for UAVs in the Wild: A Large-Scale Dataset, Benchmark and Method

    Jul 10, 2026Tianpeng Liu, Xinhua Jiang, Li Liu +4Reinforcement LearningObject Detection

    College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073, China

  25. C-GAP: Class-Aware and Online Prompting Improves Vision-Language Models on Imbalanced Classes

    Jul 10, 2026Francis Fernandez, Arash Jahangiri, Salimeh SekehOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionObject Detection

    San Diego State University

  26. LOGOS: Language-guided Oriented Object Detection in Aerial Scenes

    Jul 9, 2026Trong-Thuan Nguyen, Minh-Triet TranDetection TransformerObject Detection

    University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  27. Prototype-Anchored Generalized Manifold Regression for Unknown-Domain Object Detection

    Jul 8, 2026Zihao Zhang, Aming Wu, Yang Li +1Domain GeneralizationOOD Generalization

    College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin Key Lab of Machine Learning, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China · School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, China

  28. Dynamic Object Detection and Tracking in Construction: A Fisheye Camera and LiDAR Sensor Fusion Model

    Jul 8, 2026Yilong Chen, Huili Huang, Yong K. ChoRobotic ConstructionLidar-Based 3D Object Detection

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

  29. Fully Rotation-Equivariant Spectral-Spatial Learning for Multispectral Object Detection

    Jul 6, 2026Peng Zhang, Tingfa Xu, Shuaihao Han +1Multispectral Object DetectionEquivariant Neural Networks

    Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

  30. Efficient Perception in Automotive Detection and Tracking Using Neuromorphic Computing

    Jul 6, 2026Manish Kolachalam, Rani MalhotraEnergy-Efficient MLAutonomous Driving Perception

    Applied Research Center for Autonomous Machines, Infosys Center for Emerging Technologies, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, 560100