This paper is about object detection model and semantic segmentation model in an FPS game Counter Strike: Condition Zero to detect enemies. Semantic segmentation is pixel-wise detection algorithm. We customized the architecture for semantic segmentation. We used YOLOv5s to train object detection model. After training, the inference time of semantic segmentation was compared to object detection. It was observed that object detection was slightly faster and semantic segmentation is slower but better at detecting the exact shape of the object. However, we found out that this slight difference of inference can grow exponentially if the both models get more complex. To solve this, we propose a novel approach called Adaptive distance detection which combines both algorithms. We will also introduce Adaptive instance segmentation to combine semantic segmentation and panoptic segmentation.
Car damage detection systems play a vital role in scenarios, like the insurance claims process, accident reporting systems, or a documented write-up of the various damages a vehicle in a car garage exhibits upon entry and exit. This paper presents a two-fold model architecture encompassing a convolutional neural network used to classify the collected input samples as clear or damaged, thereby filtering out the undamaged images, before the input is passed on to the object detection layer for further localization and classification of defects into Scratch, Dent, Glass Shatter, and Smash. A deviation from the focus of related work, this paper poses the use of unified models while applying transfer learning techniques to augment performance that caters to multiple use cases. The design of this model has been made to optimize performance by incorporating the two models to streamline the processing of input samples. The model boasts significant performance with accuracies of 98% for the CNN layer and 0.5 mAP for the object detection layer. However, the metric for the object detection layer seems to understate its performance due to reasons discussed within the paper.
Reliable real-time 3D object detection based on LiDAR and camera data is critical for safety in autonomous driving, where systems must accurately perceive their surroundings with minimal latency. Many state-of-the-art systems achieve high-quality detection results but fail to meet real-time constraints, limiting their practical use. To address this challenge, we propose FastBEVFusion, a simple, fast, and robust fusion system for 3D object detection. Based on modality-specific features, FastBEVFusion projects these features into semi-aligned modality-specific BEV spaces, without relying on a computationally intensive and potentially error-prone depth estimation. Given these BEV spaces, we propose a light-weight, soft, and dynamic fusion module based on cross-attention, which adapts dynamically to the scene context and enables feature fusion across the entire BEV spaces. Experiments on the complex nuScenes dataset show that FastBEVFusion outperforms state-of-the-art real-time systems, and achieves over 50 FPS without deployment libraries. Additionally, our system shows strong robustness to calibration errors, making FastBEVFusion a powerful 3D object detection system for real-world applications.
Modern object detectors can predict keypoints as per-object geometric features, but keypoints are inherently vulnerable to occlusion and truncation. Object edges can provide complementary information, often remaining observable even when partially occluded or when their defining endpoints leave the field of view. We therefore introduce object keyline detection, the task of predicting a fixed, semantically ordered set of infinite lines per object instance. Unlike the outputs of general line-segment detectors, each keyline is associated with an object instance and identified by a semantic index, providing a line-level analog of keypoints. To solve this task, we extend YOLO with keyline prediction parameterized in continuous Hesse-normal form $[\rho,\cos\theta,\sin\theta]$, and introduce Object Keyline Similarity (OKLS), which serves as an evaluation metric, target assignment signal, and regression loss. We instantiate this formulation on runway perception in vision-based landing, a motivating example containing semantic linear features that remain partially observable throughout the approach. Experiments show that our representation achieves the highest detection accuracy among four evaluated line parameterizations, and keylines integrate directly into standard YOLO heads as additional output channels without degrading keypoint performance or adding meaningful latency.
Object detection research remains constrained by high annotation costs and the closed-set assumptions of supervised models, limiting scalability to novel categories. We present a target-dataset annotation-free object detection framework that eliminates the need for human labeling on the target dataset by leveraging the complementary strengths of pretrained foundation models, including segmentation and vision-language systems, combined with a self-refining training loop. To further reduce reliance on expensive LVLM queries, we introduce a landmark-based clustering mechanism that amortizes labeling across image clusters, improving label consistency while lowering computational cost. Our method autonomously generates segmentation proposals, assigns semantic labels through multimodal reasoning, and iteratively improves both localization and classification using a lightweight open-set detector. This modular pipeline enables adaptation to completely unseen object classes and domains without any human-provided target-dataset annotations, while maintaining compatibility with existing detection architectures. Evaluations on COCO, LVIS, ODinW-35, and Roboflow-100 demonstrate substantial performance gains over state-of-the-art open-vocabulary and long-tail detection methods, achieving 60.8 AP on COCO and 47.4 AP on LVIS under zero-shot settings. Beyond strong benchmark results, our approach provides a scalable foundation for real-world detection systems in unknown environments, where annotation is infeasible.
Open-set object detection (OSOD) suffers from a fundamental limitation under dense proposal mechanisms: highly overlapping proposals associated with the same object are often assigned contradictory known/unknown predictions. Existing methods perform open-set reasoning independently for each proposal, while ignoring the shared semantics among correlated proposals, resulting in fragmented detections and unstable open-set decisions. In this paper, we reformulate OSOD as an object-centric semantic inference problem, where correlated proposals jointly support a coherent region-level semantic decision. Based on this perspective, we propose OCSI-Net, a unified framework that combines object-centric semantic consistency with geometry-aware uncertainty stabilization. Specifically, OCSI-Net aggregates correlated proposals into structured region clusters and infers region-level semantics from aggregated semantic evidence, thereby enforcing coherent open-set predictions within the same object region. Furthermore, a geometry-aware uncertainty mechanism is introduced to stabilize optimization near open-set transition boundaries. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that OCSI-Net consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance, improving the harmonic mean of known and unknown detection by an average of 6.83\% over the second-best method.
This paper tackles the task of hand-object contact transition detection in egocentric video, which aims to localize the two temporal boundaries of a contact episode: the moment a hand first establishes contact with an object (touch) and the moment contact is released (release). We propose a unified framework that jointly models the interacting hand and object to accurately localize both transition types. The proposed framework augments hand-centric spatiotemporal representations with object-aware features learned directly from the video and introduces a transition-aware event spotting formulation tailored to contact transitions, without relying on external object or hand-object interaction detectors during inference. To support this task, we present ContactTransition, a dataset comprising 4,021 egocentric videos with 8,498 touch and 8,077 release annotations, together with object-of-interest supervision. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method consistently outperforms strong two-stage and end-to-end event-spotting baselines on both transition types. Finally, we show that detected contact transitions provide effective temporal anchors for downstream egocentric hand-object reasoning.
This paper presents FOMO (Fear of Memorizing Objects), an end-to-end trainable transformer-based architecture for zero-shot model-based object detection. Existing approaches typically follow a proposal-and-match pipeline: target-agnostic mask proposals are generated and then matched to template features in a set of loosely coupled stages, making them susceptible to fragmented proposals in clutter and degraded matching under occlusions. FOMO elegantly replaces this paradigm by injecting object template information early in the detection pipeline: Bidirectional attention between learnable latent tokens, multi-view CAD templates, and query image features produces object-aware image features and conditioned queries which are subsequently decoded into bounding-box and confidence predictions. We train FOMO on Clutter6D, a novel large-scale synthetic dataset with over 500k images featuring more than 10k diverse object models rendered in highly cluttered scenes with multiple instances and varying occlusion levels, which addresses the limited object diversity and lack of realistic dense clutter in existing datasets for training zero-shot multi-instance algorithms. In true zero-shot fashion, FOMO achieves 54.2 mAP on BOP-Classic-Core at 0.23 s per image, ranking second overall with 3.8 pp difference to the top method while being more than 7x faster. Throughout comprehensive ablation studies we investigate and verify architectural design choices.
Weakly supervised oriented object detection (WS-OOD) aims to reduce the annotation cost of rotated bounding boxes by leveraging cheaper annotations such as horizontal boxes or points. However, these weak annotations provide no explicit orientation information, forcing existing methods to infer object angles through indirect geometric consistency or equivariant constraints. Such indirect supervision often becomes ambiguous and unstable under real-world appearance variations, including illumination changes, color shifts, shadows, and background clutter. In this paper, we present a simple yet effective gradient-guided orientation learning strategy for WS-OOD. Motivated by the observation that the input image itself contains useful orientation priors, our method extracts dominant gradient-based orientation cues from object regions and converts them into pseudo-angle labels for auxiliary supervision, enabling the detector to learn orientation-aware representations without requiring rotated bounding box annotations or extra learnable parameters. Furthermore, since AP can mask substantial angular errors when spatial IoU remains high, we introduce an orientation-aware evaluation metric that incorporates angular discrepancies into the standard AP protocol. Extensive experiments on weakly supervised oriented detection benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed pseudo-angle supervision improves both detection performance and orientation estimation quality, while the proposed metric provides a more faithful assessment of angle prediction than conventional AP alone.
Tracking-by-propagation (TBP) methods perform end-to-end multi-object tracking by propagating track queries across frames, jointly handling detection and identity association without heuristic post-processing while naturally modeling temporal information. However, as detection and association are tightly coupled, detection queries in TBP are expected to discover currently untracked objects and provide complementary current-frame evidence for challenging tracks whose queries and identities are retained. Existing methods largely inherit detection-query formation from single-frame detection and construct such queries before the decoder with little awareness of trajectory states. Consequently, currently untracked objects may be missed, while challenging tracked objects with reduced visibility under occlusion may lack complementary evidence, causing association failures or duplicate responses. To address these issues, we propose TAQ-MOTR, a tracking-aware detection query formation framework that employs a pre-decoder Hybrid Query Generator (HQG) to fuse current-frame image features, track memory, and learnable memory. By conditioning detection queries on trajectory states, TAQ-MOTR adapts them to \rev{the discovery of currently untracked objects and tracked-object complementation We further introduce a training-only auxiliary detection branch whose one-to-one label assignment is decoupled from that of the main tracking branch, providing additional detection supervision to strengthen the shared HQG and decoder for the discovery of currently untracked objects. TAQ-MOTR improves performance on DanceTrack, SportsMOT, and BFT, achieving 72.0 HOTA, 63.1 AssA, and 76.6 IDF1 on the DanceTrack test set. Code is available at https://github.com/Magicmiya/TAQ-MOTR
Underwater object detectors are typically evaluated on pre-transmission images, overlooking additional degradation from bandwidth-constrained downscaling and compression. We introduce AquaTX, a controlled benchmark built from real underwater detection datasets with seen and held-out codecs. We also propose TERA, a metadata-blind receiver-side framework combining task-guided pixel restoration and dual-state feature correction while keeping the detector frozen. Under seen compound degradation, TERA improves mean average precision (mAP50:95, averaged over IoU thresholds from 0.50 to 0.95) from 37.7 to 50.0 on DUO-TX and from 31.5 to 41.3 on RUOD-TX relative to the frozen detector without restoration. TERA also preserves clean-input performance and remains competitive with detector fine-tuning under the held-out AVIF codec. These findings support transmission-aware evaluation and task-guided restoration for underwater object detection. Code is available at https://github.com/hijinkim/TERA.
Deep learning-based object detection models are highly dependent on the quality of annotated training data. However, large-scale datasets often contain inevitable label noise, with bounding box localization errors being a prevalent and impactful form in object detection. While label noise handling techniques are well-studied for image classification, their adaptation to the more complex problem of bounding box errors remains underexplored. To address this, we propose a novel Smooth Bounding Box (SBB) strategy to mitigate the adverse effects of bounding box annotation inaccuracies. Our key insight is that annotation errors are often linked to annotator factors rather than specific image content, allowing for a statistical correction approach. Based on object size distribution within datasets, we implement the SBB strategy through two methods: 1) Global Scaling Correction (GSC), which applies a uniform scaling factor to estimate and correct a global average error; and 2) Interval Scaling Correction (ISC), which categorizes objects by size into intervals and estimates a dedicated correction factor for each, enabling more precise, fine-grained calibration. For efficient optimization of multiple parameters in ISC, we design a tailored model fine-tuning strategy. Furthermore, we introduce a Normalized Residual Fluctuation (NRF) metric to quantitatively assess the smoothing effect and training stability. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that our method consistently enhances detection accuracy across various model architectures. Both GSC and ISC achieve significant performance improvements over strong baselines, including the latest YOLOv11n, without adding inference overhead. The codes are available at https://github.com/Acui001/SBB.git.
Sparse query-based 3D detectors commonly encode heterogeneous semantic, geometric, and motion information into unified latent queries, including when explicit 3D anchors are used. We introduce ExQuery, an explicit structured query framework for temporal 3D object detection. Each decoded query is organized into a shared semantic context slice and physical-state-specific slices for center, dimensions, orientation, and velocity. This structure is preserved from prior encoding to branch-specific regression and is reused to reconstruct temporal queries: predicted physical states are transformed by ego motion, classification scores form soft semantic priors, and the reconstructed query is fused with the stored latent instance feature through gated affine modulation. Experiments on the nuScenes benchmark show that our method achieves competitive detection performance, and ablation studies validate the effectiveness of our proposed modules.
Autonomous driving perception systems must maintain reliable object detection under diverse environmental conditions, not only in clear daytime scenes. However, the cross-weather robustness of modern detectors remains insufficiently characterised under source-only evaluation. This study evaluates representative object detection architectures trained exclusively on clear daytime driving scenes and tested without adaptation under unseen fog, rain, snow, and night conditions. The evaluation covers lightweight and medium-scale one-stage, two-stage, and transformer-based detectors within a unified protocol. Robustness is assessed using performance Drop (%), a Weather Robustness Index (WRI), and class-level sensitivity analysis for critical road participants, including cars, buses, trucks, and persons. Prediction confidence reliability under environmental domain shift is measured using Expected Calibration Error (ECE). Results reveal consistent performance degradation in adverse conditions, reaching 62.90% at night. Buses show the highest sensitivity to environmental variability, while cars remain comparatively stable across weather transitions. Comparisons indicate that YOLO-based detectors exhibit the lowest calibration mismatch, reflecting stronger agreement between predicted confidence and empirical detection correctness. In contrast, DETR achieves the lowest robustness score, with a WRI of 0.6859, indicating greater vulnerability to cross-weather domain shift. These findings offer deployment-oriented insights into detector robustness and confidence reliability for safety-critical intelligent vehicle perception systems.
Existing RAW-based detectors typically introduce learnable ISP modules to convert RAW inputs into sRGB-like formats to fit off-the-shelf detectors. However, this RAW-to-sRGB paradigm decouples representation learning from the downstream detection task. Crucially, it forces the network to inherit human-centric visual priors while discarding intrinsic RAW advantages, such as linear sensor responses and high-bit-depth, minimally processed scene cues. In this paper, we propose \textbf{ILLRAW}, an \textbf{ILL}umination-aware end-to-end \textbf{RAW} object detection framework. Instead of reconstructing visually plausible sRGB images, ILLRAW directly learns detection-oriented RAW features through a lightweight feature adapter inserted at the input stage of existing detectors. ILLRAW estimates an illumination mask and introduces channel-sensitive embeddings to model Bayer-channel responses. These features are fused by an illumination attention fusion module. Experiments show clear improvements on the diverse AODRaw benchmark and competitive performance on LOD and PascalRAW, with particularly strong results under dark exposure.
Reliable perception is essential to intelligent transportation systems, yet deep neural networks can silently miss safety-critical objects while continuing to produce apparently plausible outputs. Existing run-time monitors for 3D object detection generally assess each frame independently and therefore cannot exploit the temporal evolution of occlusion, point sparsity, and scene complexity. We present TRIM, a lightweight temporal monitor that detects missed-object failures without modifying or retraining the underlying detector. TRIM summarises intermediate activations using compact channel-wise statistics and processes short sequences of these summaries with a temporal convolutional network. Experiments on NuScenes show that temporal monitoring improves AUROC from 0.686 to 0.704 and reduces the false alarm rate at 95% recall from 0.818 to 0.759 compared with single-frame monitoring. Early and intermediate backbone features provide the strongest monitoring signal, while the temporal inference head requires only 0.159 ms on a CPU.
Class-incremental learning (CIL) for outdoor 3D object detection remains largely underexplored. Existing outdoor studies are limited to single-benchmark evaluations, with SDCoT++ considering KITTI and CL2OD considering nuScenes under different incremental settings. This makes it difficult to assess whether observed continual-learning behavior generalizes across autonomous-driving benchmarks. To the best of our knowledge, we provide the first unified cross-benchmark analysis of outdoor class-incremental 3D object detection across multiple autonomous-driving benchmarks, covering both two-task and multi-stage settings. We investigate: (1) how severely existing 3D detectors forget previously learned classes, (2) how incremental training exposes the stability-plasticity dilemma between knowledge retention and new-class acquisition, and (3) which forms of supervision are most effective for balancing these objectives. We introduce CL3DOD, a class-incremental 3D detection framework that restores missing supervision for previous classes using predictions from the previous-stage detector, preserves old-class responses through query-wise knowledge distillation, and employs EMA-based temporal consistency regularization. Experiments on KITTI and nuScenes reveal a consistent stability-plasticity dilemma across both benchmarks. CL3DOD generally achieves a more favorable stability-plasticity balance than controlled incremental baselines and improves upon published prior methods in the reported benchmark comparisons. This advantage persists across multiple incremental stages, demonstrating strong retention of previously learned knowledge while maintaining effective new-class acquisition. Our code, evaluation setup, and incremental task splits will be publicly released.
Domain generalization (DG) for object detection aims to improve model performance on unseen target domains. Existing detectors, however, suffer substantial degradation on visually distinct unseen domains, as models confined to limited training styles tend to overfit superficial statistical cues rather than object-level semantics. Motivated by human perception, which attends primarily to semantically relevant features while ignoring irrelevant style cues, we propose Origin-Anchored Multi-Style Consistency (OAMSC), a source-only framework that couples multi-style data synthesis with cross-style consistency learning to suppress style-sensitive shortcut learning. For data preparation, we leverage off-the-shelf diffusion models to expand the source datasets into 20 distinct styles, with all generated images manually verified to ensure that object instances and annotations remain consistent across style variants. During training, we impose Origin-anchored consistency constraints at scene and object levels to reinforce the learning of domain-stable features while suppressing the influence of style-sensitive cues. Extensive experiments and ablation studies on multiple challenging DG benchmarks demonstrate the consistent effectiveness and strong generalization performance of OAMSC across diverse domain shifts. Notably, our approach applies to both one-stage and two-stage detectors, while its data-centric design is complementary in principle to other DG methods. The training code and two style-transfer datasets constructed for the experiments, comprising approximately 180K images in total, are publicly available on GitHub.
Tiny object detection remains challenging because tiny instances occupy only a few pixels, and their fine-grained details are easily lost during feature downsampling. Although the highest-resolution feature preserves rich local details for tiny objects, DETR-like detectors often discard it due to its large computational cost, while directly reintroducing this feature also brings dense background noise. To address this problem, we propose ReDHF, a novel framework that Revives the Discarded High-resolution Feature for tiny object detection. ReDHF has three cooperative components. Cross-Scale Deformable Fusion (CSDF) first constructs a semantically enhanced highest-resolution feature and injects its fine-grained details into the shallow feature under a moderate cost. Ellipse-Guided Shallow Supervision (EGSS) then guides the enhanced feature to learn more reliable classification and localization priors by applying geometry-adaptive auxiliary supervision. Full-Scale Query Interaction (FSQI) further enables decoder queries to access both low-level details and high-level semantic information, allowing them to aggregate richer cues for tiny objects. Extensive experiments show that ReDHF consistently improves multiple baselines across different DETR variants and achieves state-of-the-art performance on the evaluated benchmarks. The best ReDHF variants surpass their baselines by +1.4 AP on AI-TOD-v2, +1.6 AP on VisDrone, and +1.5 AP on SODA-D, with especially notable gains on tiny and small objects.
Energy-constrained aerial platforms require accurate object detection under strict power and latency budgets, yet conventional inference remains bottlenecked by multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations. While spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer bio-inspired efficiency, many SNN detectors retain hybrid MACs in intermediate layers, or use spike-driven inference where multi-level spikes are interpreted as repeated binary events. We propose SpikeAD, a direct-trained spike-controlled neuromorphic aerial detector. In SpikeAD, sparse bounded integer spikes act strictly as multiplexer control signals for multiplier-free shift-add inference, preserving spike boundaries throughout a four-scale bidirectional feature pyramid. We introduce the Spike-Gated Multi-Scale (SGMS) block, performing receptive field expansion with activity-driven channel selection, implementable with adders and comparators. Evaluated on VisDrone and DOTA and across Nano, Small, and Medium variants, SpikeAD achieves up to 46.2% mAP@50 on VisDrone (+4.8% over SNN prior art), and generalizes to oriented bounding box (77.6% mAP@50 on DOTA) using the proposed SpikeOBB head. Under the Horowitz 45nm arithmetic energy model following standard methodology in SNN literature, SpikeAD achieves up to 18.9x estimated reduction relative to an equivalent MAC-based implementation. We propose the Spike Processing Core (SPC), an RTL compute primitive to validate hardware realizability for reconfigurable and scalable custom accelerator chip design on FPGA/ASIC, highlighting a promising path toward next-generation ultra-low-power neuromorphic processors for aerial object detection. Link to the open-source and open-weight GitHub repository will be added upon publication.