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. LipSSD: Lipschitz-Constrained Single-Shot Detection for Adversarially Robust Object Detection

    Jul 6, 2026Vincent Lébé, Yannick Prudent, Corentin Friedrich +3Adversarial RobustnessObject Detection

    IRIT, DTIPG - SNCF, UT3 · IRT Saint-Exup´ery · Alstom +2

  2. FRFDet: Efficient UAV Small Object Detection with Symmetric Sampling and Scalable Fusion

    Jul 5, 2026Yunzhong Si, Huiying Xu, Xinzhong Zhu +4Remote Sensing Small Object DetectionSmall Object Detection

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China · Hangzhou School of Automation, Zhejiang Normal University, Hangzhou, China · Beijing Geekplus Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, China

  3. A Multi-Task Deep Learning Framework for Real-Time Intelligent Video Surveillance with Temporal Event Validation

    Jul 3, 2026Estera Dumitru, Stelian SpînuVideo Action RecognitionObject Detection

    Faculty of Information Systems and Cyber Security Military Technical Academy “Ferdinand I” Bucharest, Romania

  4. REAL-OW: Rehearsal-free Open World Object Detection with Low-Rank Adaptation and Dual-Stage Objectness Modeling

    Jul 3, 2026Huazhong Zhang, Xiaowen Fu, Yang Zhang +2Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionContinual Learning

    Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

  5. Aircraft Detection in Satellite Imagery using Deep Learning Object Detectors

    Jul 2, 2026Mujahir Hussain Abbasi, S. Beghin, A. T. R. Krishna Priya +3Object DetectionAerial Object Detection

    Department of Information Technology Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkata, West Bengal, India · Department of Information Technology Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. · Bose School of Computational and Physical Sciences Kristu Jayanti, Bengaluru, Karnataka +9

  6. Q-GAIN: A Python Package for Machine Learning and Physically Informed Analysis Applications

    Jul 2, 2026M. Doris, S. Guo, S. M. Koh +5Object DetectionPhysics-Informed ML

    National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA · Joint Quantum Institute and University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA · Department of Physics and Astronomy, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002, USA +1

  7. Federated Learning for Object Detection: Enabling Collaborative Drone Learning Without Centralizing Data

    Jul 2, 2026Daniel M. Jimenez-Gutierrez, Enrique Zuazua, Georgios Kellaris +3Object DetectionAerial Object Detection

  8. Descriptor: LYNRED Mobility Dataset Multimodal Detection Subset (LYNRED-MDS)

    Jul 2, 2026Loïc Arbez, Jessy Matias, Xavier Brenière +2Autonomous Driving DatasetsAutonomous Driving Benchmarks

    Thoth · INRIA center at University Grenoble Alpes, 38330 Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, France · Lynred, 38113, Veurey-Voroize, France +2

  9. Boosting Infrared Small Target Detection via Logit-Domain Contrast and Adaptive Shape Refinement

    Jul 2, 2026Handong Zeng, Zhengeng Yang, Shuai Zhang +2Infrared Small Target DetectionObject Detection

    College of Engineering and Design, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China · School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China

  10. Computer Vision for Wildlife Monitoring: Detecting Brown Howler Monkeys using YOLO

    Jul 1, 2026Gabriel Ferri Schneider, Guido Luis Glufke Mainardi, Paulo Ricardo Knob +4Video Object DetectionObject Detection

    PUCRS · UERGS · SEMA

  11. Active Learning for Cascaded Object Detection: Balancing Coverage and Uncertainty in Table Extraction Pipelines

    Jul 1, 2026Eliott Thomas, Mickael Coustaty, Aurelie Joseph +3Table Structure RecognitionDocument Information Extraction

    L3i, La Rochelle Université, La Rochelle, France · Yooz, Aimargues, France

  12. ConRTF: Edge-Constrained Boundary Distribution Refinement for Realtime TransFormer Table Structure Recognition

    Jul 1, 2026Eliott Thomas, Tri-Cong Pham, Mickael Coustaty +5Table Structure RecognitionObject Detection

    L3i, La Rochelle University, France · Yooz, La Rochelle, France · Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

  13. Personalized Object Identification and Localization via In-Context Inference with Vision-Language Models

    Jul 1, 2026Kensuke Nakamura, Byung-Woo HongFew-Shot Object DetectionVision-Language Grounding

    Artificial Intelligence Department, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, 06974, Korea

  14. Classroom Behavior Monitoring with YOLO An Empirical Study in Higher Education Settings

    Jun 30, 2026Sinh Vu Trong, Dung Nguyen Manh, Hieu Hoang Minh +3Human Activity RecognitionVideo Action Recognition

    Banking Academy of Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam

  15. MVDGC: Joint 3D and 2D Multi-view Pedestrian Detection via Dual Geometric Constraints

    Jun 30, 2026Thinh Phan, Hao Vo, Khoa Vo +3Multi-View GeometryMulti-View 3D Object Detection

    AICV Lab, EECS Department, University of Arkansas · University of Information Technology · Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT), Vietnam

  16. Real-Time Source-Free Object Detection

    Jun 30, 2026Sairam VCR, Varun Gopal, Poornima Jain +2Source-Free Domain AdaptationSelf-Training

    1IIT Hyderabad, India · 2Microsoft Research · 3MBZUAI

  17. WIDER-FAIR: An Annotated Version of the WIDER-FACE Dataset for Fairness Evaluation

    Jun 30, 2026Maxime Moussi, Benoît Ronval, Siegfried Nijssen +1Algorithmic FairnessAlgorithmic Bias

    UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium · UCLouvain, ICTEAM, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium · UCLouvain, ICTEAM, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium and KU Leuven, DTAI, Leuven, Belgium +1

  18. Zero-Shot Quantization for Object Detectors using Off-the-Shelf Generative Models

    Jun 30, 2026Hyunho Lee, Kyomin Hwang, Hyeonjin Kim +3Quantization-Aware TrainingSynthetic Data Generation

    Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea · LG Electronics, Seoul, South Korea

  19. Domain Adaptive Object Detection via Dual-Stream Bilevel-Cycle Optimization

    Jun 30, 2026Yannan Chen, Wei Wang, Wenqiang Wang +5Unsupervised Domain AdaptationSelf-Training

    School of Cyber Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen Campus, Guangdong 518107, China · PC Laboratory, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China +1

  20. Budget-Adaptive Routing: Skipping the Weak When the Strong Answers Anyway

    Jun 29, 2026Wei Geng, Nitinder Mohan, Jörg OttAdaptive Model RoutingEdge Inference

    Technical University of Munich Munich, Germany · TU Delft Delft, Netherlands

  21. Simple Supervision Is Hard to Beat: A Bitter Lesson from Sparse Target Labels in Domain-Adaptive Object Detection

    Jun 29, 2026Lijun Zhang, Ruinian Xu, Mudit AgrawalSource-Free Domain AdaptationUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

    Amazon Robotics, Seattle, USA

  22. FR-DETR: Frequency and Recurrent Feature Refinement for Robust Object Detection under Adverse Weather

    Jun 29, 2026Tuan-Duc Nguyen, Duc-Trong LeFrequency-Domain Feature LearningDetection Transformer

    FPT Software AI Center · VNU University of Engineering and Technology

  23. Efficient RGB-T Object Detection via Sparse Cross-Modality Fusion

    Jun 29, 2026Chao Tian, Zikun Zhou, Chao Yang +2Multispectral Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

  24. Hippocampus-DETR: An Explicit Memory Object Detection Framework Based on Hippocampus Modeling

    Jun 26, 2026Zhaoning Shi, Bo Ma, Hao Xu +2Memory-Augmented Neural NetworksDetection Transformer

    Beijing institute of Technology

  25. Explainable AI for Biodiversity Monitoring and Ecological Image Analysis

    Jun 26, 2026Brinnae Bent, Holly R. Houliston, Jiayi Zhou +2Explainable Artificial IntelligenceBiodiversity Monitoring

    Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University · British Antarctic Survey · Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge +1

  26. Spacecraft Fiducial Marker for Autonomous Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Docking

    Jun 25, 2026Ravi Kumar Thakur, Matouš Vrba, Martin SaskaSpace RoboticsSpacecraft Rendezvous and Proximity Operations

    Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Karlovo Namesti 13, 121 35 Prague 2, Czechia

  27. Radar Guided Camera Verification for Automatic Emergency Braking Rethinking Object Detection in Radar Camera Fusion

    Jun 25, 2026Ram Charan Akula, Sivanathan Kandhasamy, Manikandan GanesanCamera-Radar FusionCollision Avoidance

    Autonomous Systems Lab, Department of Mechatronics Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai 603203, India · Centre for Electric Mobility, Department of EEE, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai 603203, India

  28. Liquid Fusion of Heterogeneous Representations Towards General Salient Object Detection

    Jun 25, 2026Ke Chen, Ling Zhou, Guangqi Jiang +3Salient Object DetectionVisual SSMs

    School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Changzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, 213159, China · College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200082, China · Faculty of Data Science, City University of Macau, Avenida Padre Tomás Pereira2026 Taipa, Macao, 999078, China

  29. Learning Adversarial Augmentation Policies for Robust Garlic Seedling Detection

    Jun 25, 2026Soeun Lee, Chanho Kim, Yeji Kang +2Agricultural Image AnalysisDistribution Shift Robustness

    School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, South Korea · Department of Agricultural Engineering, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, 310 Nongsaengmyeong-ro, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si, Jeonbuk-do, 54875, South Korea

  30. LEVIRDet: A Million-Scale 159-Category Dataset and Foundation Model for Universal Remote Sensing Object Detection

    Jun 24, 2026Qinzhe Yang, Dongyu Wang, Haohan Niu +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing Small Object Detection

    Shen Yuan Honors College, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China. · Department of Aerospace Intelligent Science and Technology, School of Astronautics, and with the State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China. · Qian Xuesen Laboratory of Space Technology, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing 100094, China.