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AI in Object Detection

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 September 2025 | Viewed by 208

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School of Automation and Software Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
Interests: image processing; artificial intelligence;deep learning; target detection;pattern recognition; target recognition
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Department of Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: wireless resource allocation and management; wireless communications and networking; dynamic game and mean field game theory; big data analysis; security
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School of Integrated Circuits and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100811, China
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Dear Colleagues,

Small object detection and tracking is currently one of the most challenging and fundamental topics in computer vision. ‘Small objects’ are typically characterized by small size, low contrast, and blurred edges, which collectively complicate the tasks of detection and tracking. In recent years, advancements in this field have facilitated the application of small-object detection and tracking in remote sensing imagery across diverse domains, including mineral exploration, precision agriculture, urban planning, forestry management, and disaster assessment. Despite these advancements, several critical challenges persist in real-world applications, particularly in the context of high-resolution remote sensing imagery. Key issues include the difficulty of extracting detailed information from small objects, the trade-off between detection accuracy and computational efficiency, the ability to identify unknown or untrained categories within remote sensing data, and the effective tracking of small objects over time. Addressing these challenges remains essential for advancing the practical utility of small-object detection and tracking systems. Therefore, we invite submissions of papers including theoretical research and those on practical applications related to transformer models and deep learning architecture for small object detection related to remote sensing images.

Dr. Fengping An
Prof. Dr. Haitao Xu
Dr. Chuyang Ye
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Keywords

  • object detection
  • object tracking
  • target identification
  • remote sensing
  • deep learning

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Research on Vehicle Target Detection Method Based on Improved YOLOv8
by Mengchen Zhang and Zhenyou Zhang
Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(10), 5546; https://doi.org/10.3390/app15105546 - 15 May 2025
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To improve the performance of vehicle target detection in complex traffic environments and solve the problem that it is difficult to make a lightweight detection model, this paper proposes a lightweight vehicle detection model based on enhanced You Only Look Once v8. This [...] Read more.
To improve the performance of vehicle target detection in complex traffic environments and solve the problem that it is difficult to make a lightweight detection model, this paper proposes a lightweight vehicle detection model based on enhanced You Only Look Once v8. This method improves the feature extraction aggregation network by introducing an Adaptive Downsampling module, which can dynamically adjust the downsampling method, thereby increasing the model’s attention to key features, especially for small objects and occluded objects, while maintaining a lightweight structure, effectively reducing the model complexity while improving detection accuracy. A Lightweight Shared Convolution Detection Head was designed. By designing a shared convolution layer through group normalization, the detection head of the original model was improved, which can reduce redundant calculations and parameters and enhance the ability of global information fusion between feature maps, thereby achieving the purpose of improving computational efficiency. When tested in the KITTI 2D and UA-DETRAC datasets, the mAP of the proposed model was improved by 1.1% and 2.0%, respectively, the FPS was improved by 12% and 11%, respectively, the number of parameters was reduced by 33%, and the FLOPs were reduced by 28%. Full article
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