Advances in Remote Sensing Image Target Detection and Recognition

Dear Colleagues,

Remote sensing image target detection and recognition is a hot research topic in computer vison and can effectively extract valuable information from massive accessible remote sensing imagery data, supporting intelligent interpretation systems for earth observation. However, certain sophisticated challenges severely impact the performance of remote sensing image target detection and recognition, hindering intelligent interpretation algorithms’ application in practical systems. Specifically, in situations such as long-tail distribution, few-shot learning, domain shifts, real-time processing requirement, and so on, previously designed remote sensing image target detection and recognition algorithms deliver inferior performance. Thus, new mechanisms and methods need to be explored to improve the learning robustness, processing efficiency, and generalization ability of remote sensing image target detection and recognition, which will be crucial for establishing next-generation remote sensing intelligent interpretation systems.

This Special Issue aims to drive the development of target detection and recognition in the remote sensing domain, establishing a next-generation remote sensing detection and recognition algorithm. Topics may involve semi-supervised learning, transfer learning, and few-shot learning for remote sensing object detection or recognition, while considering specific challenges of remote sensing target characters, i.e., multi-scale, arbitrary orientation, tiny or weak objects, and so on.

Suggested themes and article types include the following:

1. Few-shot remote sensing object detection and recognition;
2. Zero-shot remote sensing object detection and recognition;
3. Cross-domain object detection and recognition in remote sensing domain;
4. Pretraining technology for remote sensing object detection and recognition;
5. Long-tail distribution object detection and recognition;
6. Open-vocabulary object detection in remote sensing domain.

Dr. Yin Zhuang
Guest Editor

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