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  1. SANet: Selective Attention Network for Infrared Small Target Detection

    Oct 7, 2026Yingmei Zhang, Wangtao Bao, Qin Xiao +5Small Object DetectionInfrared Small Target Detection

    School of Software and Internet of Things Engineering, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang 330032, China · School of Information Management and Mathematics, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang 330032, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, China

  2. Towards benchmarking Western Bluebird detection in the wild

    Oct 6, 2026Estela Monserrat Arriaga Santana, Julian Rosas Scull, Ibeth P. Alarcón +3Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionInstance Segmentation

    Universidad Nacional Aut´onoma de M´exico, Mexico · Universidad Aut´onoma de Tlaxcala, Mexico · The University of Texas at El Paso, USA and INAOE, Mexico

  3. PCLM: Small-target localization with frozen CLIP via prototype contrast and local magnification

    Oct 4, 2026Zhipeng Ye, Feng Jiang, Qiufeng Wang +1Prototype-Based LearningSmall Object Detection

    Taizhou Institute of Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Taizhou 225300, Jiangsu, China · Department of Intelligence Science, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85705, AZ, USA

  4. Automated Species Identification in Camera Trap Images for Wildlife Conservation

    Sep 28, 2026Nowshin Amin, Nafisa Tabassum Oyshi, Tahmid Abrar Zidan +2Small Object DetectionObject Detection

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering Brac University

  5. PointEvent: Rethinking Event-based Tiny Object Detection via Serialized Motion Evidence Accumulation

    Sep 17, 2026Zongze Wu, Baofeng Jia, Weiqi Yan +4Small Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    State key Lab of Extreme Environment Optoelectronic Dynamic Testing Technology and Instrument, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China · Jiangsu Key Lab of Visual Sensing and Intelligent Perception, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China · Fujian Key Laboratory of Urban Intelligent Sensing and Computing, Xiamen University, China

  6. Improving Faint Object Detection for Space Situational Awareness with Variational Autoencoders

    Sep 12, 2026Angela Cratere, Luca Ghilardi, Vishnu Reddy +3Variational AutoencodersSmall Object Detection

    Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands · Systems and Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA · Space4 Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA +2

  7. GRIPNet: Gaussian Radial Intensity Prior Guided Architecture for Pulmonary Nodule Detection in CT

    Sep 12, 2026Haojie Yang, Ran SuSmall Object DetectionMedical Image Anomaly Detection

    College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  8. ScopeMamba-YOLO: Widening the Perceptual Scope Inward and Outward for Small Object Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery

    Sep 9, 2026Junjie Fan, Yijun Mai, Linduo Wei +5Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing Small Object Detection

    School of Intellectual Property, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China · School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China

  9. RailGen: Improving Railway Intrusion Detection via Agent-Guided Small-Scale Foreign Object Generation

    Aug 31, 2026Quan Hao, Ziyang Tao, Chenxi Zhang +3Synthetic Data AugmentationSmall Object Detection

    School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China · College of Computer Science, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China · Institute of Automation, State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

  10. Bee Detection and Tracking at Hive Entrance using YOLO11 and ByteTrack

    Aug 24, 2026Thi Thu Thao Nguyen, Johannes ReschkeSmall Object DetectionObject Counting

    IoT Engineering Savonia University of Applied Sciences Finland · Electrical and Information Engineering Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg Germany

  11. Deep Learning based Detection of Fishing Vessels and Fishing Monitoring using Nightlight Images

    Aug 10, 2026Shantakar Mohanty, Prasun Kumar Gupta, Raian Vargas MarettoRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingMultispectral Object Detection

    Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO, Dehradun, India · University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands

  12. Where Is the Bee? Detecting Tiny Pollinators with a Single Collaborative-Head Transformer

    Aug 9, 2026Junsu Kim, Seungryul BaekSmall Object DetectionDetection Transformer

    UNIST, South Korea

  13. SkySeaLand: A Wide-Format Satellite Transportation Benchmark with an Ultra-Lightweight Detection Baseline

    Aug 7, 2026Md. Zahid Hasan Riad, Md Sultanul Islam OviRemote Sensing Small Object DetectionSmall Object Detection

    Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Green University of Bangladesh, Bangladesh · Dept. of Computer Science, George Mason University, Virginia, USA

  14. DyFrDet: Towards Accurate Small Object Detection via Dynamic Frequency Suppression with Label Disambiguation

    Aug 3, 2026Zihan Yang, Yang Guo, Hongxing Zhang +2Frequency-Domain Feature LearningSmall Object Detection

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University

  15. Beyond Symmetric Fusion: Exploiting Task-Dependent Modality Strengths for RGB-Event Small Object Detection

    Aug 2, 2026Ziheng Wang, Chaolang Li, Yutong Yang +5Small Object DetectionDetection Transformer

    Sun Yat-sen University · Shenzhen University

  16. Small-Pollinator Detection in Cluttered Field Video

    Jul 24, 2026Onur Onal, Chen ChenSmall Object DetectionDetection Transformer

    Iowa State University · Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA · Institute of AI, University of Central Florida +1

  17. SkyEV: RGB-Event UAV detection and tracking dataset and baseline

    Jul 21, 2026Jakub Mandula, Sebastian Heusinger, Julian Moosmann +2Visual Object TrackingSmall Object Detection

    ETH Zurich

  18. Attention from Above: A Multimodal Model for Drone-Based Object Localization

    Jul 20, 2026Hyun-Ki JungOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionSmall Object Detection

    University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

  19. 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

  20. NEEDL-Bench: Dataset for Swiss Needle Cast and Stomata Detection in Microscopy Images

    Jul 13, 2026Benjamin Blake, Declan McIntosh, Jürgen Ehlting +3Plant Disease ClassificationSmall Object Detection

    Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Victoria Victoria, Canada

  21. FSDC-DETR: A Frequency-Spatial Domain Collaborative DETR for Small Object Detection

    Jul 6, 2026Aiwen Liu, Chengguang Zhu, Gang Wang +5Small Object DetectionDetection Transformer

    Micro-Intelligence, Shanghai 201100, China · East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China · Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China +1

  22. 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

  23. Adaptive Spectrum-Aware Feature Disentangled Network for Small Object Detection

    Jun 27, 2026Yang Guo, Zihan Yang, Feifei Kou +3Small Object DetectionRepresentation Disentanglement

    Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China · Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University, Hangzhou, China +2

  24. From Spatial to Spectral: An Efficient, Frequency-Guided Feature Representation Learner for Small Object Detection

    Jun 22, 2026Yuhan Rui, Shihan Qiao, Yibin Lou +7Frequency-Domain Feature LearningSmall Object Detection

    Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China · University of Pennsylvania

  25. Following the Flow: Advection-Consistent Modeling for Event-based Small Object Detection

    Jun 21, 2026Wen Guo, Fulong Cai, Wuzhou QuanEvent-Based VisionSmall Object Detection

    School of Information and Electronic Engineering, Shandong Technology and Business University, Yantai 264005, China · Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China

  26. Context-Aware Feature-Fusion for Co-occurring Object Detection in Autonomous Driving

    Jun 10, 2026Binay Kumar Singh, Niels Da Vitoria LoboSmall Object DetectionAutonomous Driving Perception

    Department of Computer Science University of Central Florida Orlando, USA

  27. ZODS-RS -- Zero-training Oriented Detection & Segmentation for Remote Sensing

    Jun 9, 2026Zuan Gu, Tianhan Gao, Langxu ZhaoRemote Sensing Small Object DetectionRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Northeastern University, China

  28. Edge-Constrained UAV Small-Object Detection with P2 Enhancement and Quantum-Inspired Lightweight Structure Search

    Jun 8, 2026Wuming Lei, Yanbin Gao, Mingyan Sun +2Small Object DetectionEdge Inference

    East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China.

  29. Structure-Guided Mixed Masked Pretraining and Spatial Continuity Regularization for Printed Circuit Board Defect Detection

    Jun 2, 2026Peitong Wang, Nuo Wang, Enxin Qin +3Self-Supervised Pre-TrainingSmall Object Detection

    School of Big Data and Statistics, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, China · School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China +1

  30. Intra-YOLO: A Small Object Detection Model for Caries and Molar-Incisor Hypomineralization in Intraoral Photography Based on Transfer Learning with Reinforcement Learning

    May 27, 2026Po-Lun Chwang, Po-Yu Chang, Wen-Liang Lin +3Medical Image AnalysisSmall Object Detection

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan · Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan · Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan