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Object Detection in Aerial Images

🔥 A curated list of awesome resources for generic object detection in aerial images.

❗ Updated at 2024-06.

Overview

No.	Year	Pub.	Title	Links
10	2023	GRSM	Remote Sensing Object Detection Meets Deep Learning: A Meta-review of Challenges and Advances _{^{Xiangrong Zhang, Tianyang Zhang, Guanchun Wang, Peng Zhu, Xu Tang, Xiuping Jia, Licheng Jiao}}	Paper/Code
09	2023	PAMI	Towards Large-Scale Small Object Detection: Survey and Benchmarks _{^{Gong Cheng, Xiang Yuan, Xiwen Yao, Kebing Yan, Qinghua Zeng, Xingxing Xie, Junwei Han}}	Paper/Data
08	2023	arXiv	Oriented Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images using Deep Learning: A Survey _{^{Kun Wang, Zi Wang, Zhang Li, Ang Su, Xichao Teng, Minhao Liu, Qifeng Yu}}	Paper/Code
07	2021	PAMI	Object Detection in Aerial Images: A Large-Scale Benchmark and Challenges `DOTA` _{^{Jian Ding, Nan Xue, Gui-Song Xia, Xiang Bai, et al.}}	Paper/Proj
06	2020	IJCV	Deep Learning for Generic Object Detection: A Survey `GOD` _{^{Li Liu, Wanli Ouyang, et al.}}	Paper/Code
05	2020	JPRS	Object detection in optical remote sensing images: A survey and a new benchmark `HBB` _{^{Ke Li, Gong Cheng, et al.}}	Paper/Data
04	2019	TNNLS	Object Detection With Deep Learning: A Review `GOD` _{^{Zhongqiu Zhao, et al.}}	Paper/Code
03	2018	JPRS	A review of accuracy assessment for object-based image analysis: From per-pixel to per-polygon approaches _{^{Su Ye, Rahul Rakshit, et al.}}	Paper/Code
02	2018	CVPR	DOTA: A Large-Scale Dataset for Object Detection in Aerial Images `DOTA` _{^{Gui-Song Xia, Xiang Bai, Jian Ding, Zhen Zhu, et al.}}	Paper/Code
01	2016	JPRS	A survey on object detection in optical remote sensing images _{^{Gong Cheng, Junwei Han}}	Paper/Code

Oriented Object Detection

Preprint

Year	Pub.	Title	Links
2024	arXiv	GOOD: Towards Domain Generalized Orientated Object Detection _{^{Qi Bi, Beichen Zhou, Jingjun Yi, Wei Ji, Haolan Zhan, Gui-Song Xia}}	Paper/Code
2023	arXiv	P2RBox: A Single Point is All You Need for Oriented Object Detection _{^{Guangming Cao, Xuehui Yu, Wenwen Yu, Xumeng Han, Xue Yang, Guorong Li, Jianbin Jiao, Zhenjun Han}}	Paper/Code
2022	arXiv	DAFNe: A One-Stage Anchor-Free Deep Model for Oriented Object Detection _{^{Steven Lang, et al.}}	Paper/Code

2025

No.	Pub.	Title	Links
2025	ICLR	PointOBB-v2: Towards Simpler, Faster, and Stronger Single Point Supervised Oriented Object Detection _{^{Botao Ren, Xue Yang, Yi Yu, Junwei Luo, Zhidong Deng}}	Paper/Code
2025	arXiv	SM3Det: A Unified Model for Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Object Detection _{^{Yuxuan Li, Xiang Li, Yunheng Li, Yicheng Zhang, Yimian Dai, Qibin Hou, Ming-Ming Cheng, Jian Yang}}	Paper/Code

2024

No.	Pub.	Title	Links
18	NeurIPS	E2E-MFD: Towards End-to-End Synchronous Multimodal Fusion Detection _{^{Jiaqing Zhang, Mingxiang Cao, Weiying Xie, Jie Lei, Daixun Li, Wenbo Huang, Yunsong Li, Xue Yang}}	Paper/Code
17	ECCV	Projecting Points to Axes: Oriented Object Detection via Point-Axis Representation _{^{Zeyang Zhao, Qilong Xue, Yuhang He, Yifan Bai, Xing Wei, Yihong Gong}}	Paper/Code
16	ECCV	Masked Angle-Aware Autoencoder for Remote Sensing Images _{^{Zhihao Li, Biao Hou, Siteng Ma, Zitong Wu, Xianpeng Guo, Bo Ren, Licheng Jiao}}	Paper/Code
15	JSTARS	MTP: Advancing Remote Sensing Foundation Model via Multi-Task Pretraining _{^{Di Wang, Jing Zhang, Minqiang Xu, Lin Liu, Dongsheng Wang, Erzhong Gao, Chengxi Han, Haonan Guo, Bo Du, Dacheng Tao, Liangpei Zhang}}	Paper/Code
14	TPAMI	Learning to Holistically Detect Bridges from Large-Size VHR Remote Sensing Imagery ^{_{Yansheng Li; Junwei Luo; Yongjun Zhang; Yihua Tan; Jin-Gang Yu; Song Bai}}	Paper/Code
13	CVPR	Weakly Misalignment-free Adaptive Feature Alignment for UAVs-based Multimodal Object Detection ^{_{Chen Chen, Jiahao Qi, Xingyue Liu, Kangcheng Bin, Ruigang Fu, Xikun Hu, Ping Zhong}}	Paper/Code
12	CVPR	WildlifeMapper: Aerial Image Analysis for Multi-Species Detection and Identification ^{_{Satish Kumar, Bowen Zhang, Chandrakanth Gudavalli, Connor Levenson, Lacey Hughey, et al.}}	Paper/Code
11	CVPR	Rotated Multi-Scale Interaction Network for Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation ^{_{Sihan Liu, Yiwei Ma, Xiaoqing Zhang, Haowei Wang, Jiayi Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Rongrong Ji}}	Paper/Code
10	CVPR	Relational Matching for Weakly Semi-Supervised Oriented Object Detection ^{_{Wenhao Wu, Hau-San Wong, Si Wu, Tianyou Zhang}}	Paper/Code
09	CVPR	Point2RBox: Combine Knowledge from Synthetic Visual Patterns for End-to-end Oriented Object Detection with Single Point Supervision ^{_{Yi Yu, Xue Yang, Qingyun Li, Feipeng Da, Jifeng Dai, Yu Qiao, Junchi Yan}}	Paper/Code
08	CVPR	PointOBB: Learning Oriented Object Detection via Single Point Supervision ^{_{Junwei Luo, Xue Yang, Yi Yu, Qingyun Li, Junchi Yan, Yansheng Li}}	Paper/Code
07	CVPR	Rethinking Boundary Discontinuity Problem for Oriented Object Detection ^{_{Hang Xu, Xinyuan Liu, Haonan Xu, Yike Ma, Zunjie Zhu, Chenggang Yan, Feng Dai}}	Paper/Code
06	CVPR	Theoretically Achieving Continuous Representation of Oriented Bounding Boxes ^{_{Zikai Xiao, Guo-Ye Yang, Xue Yang, Tai-Jiang Mu, Junchi Yan, Shi-min Hu}}	Paper/Code
05	CVPR	Poly Kernel Inception Network for Remote Sensing Detection ^{_{Xinhao Cai, Qiuxia Lai, Yuwei Wang, Wenguan Wang, Zeren Sun, Yazhou Yao}}	Paper/Code
04	AAAI	FRED: Towards a Full Rotation-Equivariance in Aerial Image Object Detection ^{_{Chanho Lee, Jinsu Son, Hyounguk Shon, Yunho Jeon, Junmo Kim}}	Paper/Code
03	AAAI	Spatial Transform Decoupling for Oriented Object Detection _{^{Hongtian Yu, Yunjie Tian, Qixiang Ye, Yunfan Liu}}	Paper/Code
02	IJCV	Oriented R-CNN and Beyond _{^{Xingxing Xie, Gong Cheng, Jiabao Wang, Ke Li, Xiwen Yao & Junwei Han}}	Paper/Code
01	TGRS	ARS-DETR: Aspect Ratio-Sensitive Detection Transformer for Aerial Oriented Object Detection _{^{Ying Zeng, Yushi Chen, Xue Yang, Qingyun Li, Junchi Yan}}	Paper/Code

2023

No.	Pub.	Title	Links
12	arXiv	Adaptive Dense Pseudo Label Selection for Semi-supervised Oriented Object Detection _{^{Tong Zhao, Qiang Fang, Shuohao Shi, Xin Xu}}	Paper/Code
11	ICCV	Adaptive Rotated Convolution for Rotated Object Detection _{^{Yifan Pu, Yiru Wang, Zhuofan Xia, Yizeng Han, Yulin Wang, Weihao Gan, Zidong Wang, Shiji Song, Gao Huang}}	Paper/Code
10	ICCV	Large Selective Kernel Network for Remote Sensing Object Detection _{^{Yuxuan Li, Qibin Hou, Zhaohui Zheng, Ming-Ming Cheng, Jian Yang, and Xiang Li}}	Paper/Code
09	TIP	Sampling Equivariant Self-attention Networks for Object Detection in Aerial Images _{^{Guo-Ye Yang; Xiang-Li Li; Zi-Kai Xiao; Tai-Jiang Mu; Ralph R. Martin; Shi-Min Hu}}	Paper/Code
08	PR	RoMP-Transformer: Rotational bounding box with Multi-level feature Pyramid Transformer for object detection _{^{Joonhyeok Moon, Munsu Jeon, Siheon Jeong, Ki-Yong Oh}}	Paper/Code
07	PAMI	Detecting rotated objects as Gaussian distributions and its 3-D generalization _{^{Yang, Xue and Zhang, Gefan and Yang, Xiaojiang and Zhou, Yue and Wang, Wentao and Tang, Jin and He, Tao and Yan, Junchi}}	Paper/Code
06	CVPR	Dynamic Coarse-to-Fine Learning for Oriented Tiny Object Detection _{^{Chang Xu, Jian Ding, Jinwang Wang, Chang Xu, Huai Yu, Lei Yu, Gui-Song Xia}}	Paper/Code
05	CVPR	SOOD: Towards Semi-Supervised Oriented Object Detection _{^{Wei Hua, Dingkang Liang, jingyu li, Xiaolong Liu, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiang Bai}}	Paper/Code
04	CVPR	Knowledge Combination to Learn Rotated Detection Without Rotated Annotation _{^{Tianyu Zhu, Bryce Ferenczi, Pulak Purkait, Tom Drummond, Hamid Rezatofighi, Anton van den Hengel}}	Paper/Code
03	CVPR	Phase-Shifting Coder: Predicting Accurate Orientation in Oriented Object Detection _{^{Yi Yu, Feipeng Da}}	Paper/Code
02	ICLR	H2RBox: Horizontal Box Annotation is All You Need for Oriented Object Detection _{^{Yang, Xue and Zhang, Gefan and Li, Wentong and Wang, Xuehui and Zhou, Yue and Yan, Junchi}}	Paper/Code
01	TCSVT	AO2-DETR: Arbitrary-Oriented Object Detection Transformer _{^{Linhui Dai, Hong Liu, Hao Tang, Zhiwei Wu, Pinhao Song}}	Paper/Code

2022

No.	Pub.	Title	Links
15	TGRS	Anchor-free Oriented Proposal Generator for Object Detection _{^{Gong Cheng, Jiabao Wang, et al.}}	Paper/Code
14	IJCV	On the Arbitrary-Oriented Object Detection: Classification Based Approaches Revisited _{^{Xue Yang, Junchi Yan}}	Paper/Code
13	ECCV	EAutoDet: Efficient Architecture Search for Object Detection _{^{Xiaoxing Wang, Jiale Lin, Junchi Yan, Juanping Zhao, Xiaokang Yang}}	Paper/Code
12	PAMI	SCRDet++: Detecting Small, Cluttered and Rotated Objects via Instance-Level Feature Denoising and Rotation Loss Smoothing _{^{Xue Yang, Junchi Yan, et al.}}	Paper/Proj
11	TIP	GGHL: A General Gaussian Heatmap Label Assignment for Arbitrary-Oriented Object Detection _{^{Zhanchao Huang, Wei Li, et al.}}	Paper/Code
10	TIP	ACE: Anchor-Free Corner Evolution for Real-Time Arbitrarily-Oriented Object Detection _{^{Pengwen Dai; Siyuan Yao; Zekun Li; Sanyi Zhang; Xiaochun Cao}}	Paper/Code
09	TCSVT	RSDet++: Point-based Modulated Loss for More Accurate Rotated Object Detection _{^{Wen Qian, Xue Yang, et al.}}	Paper/Code
08	CVPR	Interactive Multi-Class Tiny-Object Detection _{^{Chunggi Lee, Seonwook Park, Heon Song, Jeongun Ryu, Sanghoon Kim}}	Paper/Code
07	CVPR	Weakly Supervised Rotation-Invariant Aerial Object Detection Network _{^{Xiaoxu Feng, Gong Cheng, et al.}}	Paper/Code
06	CVPR	OSKDet: Towards Orientation-sensitive Keypoint Localization for Rotated Object Detection _{^{Dongchen Lu, et al.}}	Paper/Code
05	CVPR	Oriented RepPoints for Aerial Object Detection _{^{Wentong Li, Jianke Zhu}}	Paper/Code
04	CVPR	~~Canonical Voting: Towards Robust Oriented Bounding Box Detection in 3D Scenes~~ _{^{Yang You, Cewu Lu, et al.}}	Paper/Code
03	AAAI	Shape-Adaptive Selection and Measurement for Oriented Object Detection _{^{Liping Hou, Ke Lu, et al.}}	Paper/Code MMRotate
02	AAAI	Polygon-to-Polygon Distance Loss for Rotated Object Detection _{^{Yang Yang, Jifeng Chen, et al.}}	Paper/Code/Slides
01	TMM	AdaZoom: Towards Scale-Aware Large Scene Object Detection `HBB` _{^{Jingtao Xu, Yali Li, et al.}}	Paper/Code arXiv

2021

No.	Pub.	Title	Links
16	PAMI	Gliding Vertex on the Horizontal Bounding Box for Multi-Oriented Object Detection _{^{Yongchao Xu, et al.}}	Paper/arXiv Code
15	TIP	GSDet: Object Detection in Aerial Images Based on Scale Reasoning _{^{Wei Li, Wei Wei, Lei Zhang}}	Paper/Code
14	NeurIPS	Learning High-Precision Bounding Box for Rotated Object Detection via Kullback-Leibler Divergence _{^{Xue Yang, Junchi Yan, et al.}}	Paper/Code
13	ICCV	Towards Rotation Invariance in Object Detection _{^{Agastya Kalra, Guy Stoppi, et al.}}	Paper/Code
12	ICCV	Oriented R-CNN for Object Detection _{^{X. Xie, Gong Cheng, et al.}}	Paper/Code
11	MM	Polar Ray: A Single-stage Angle-free Detector for Oriented Object Detection in Aerial Images _{^{Shuai Liu, Huchuan Lu, et al.}}	Paper/Code
10	ICML	Rethinking Rotated Object Detection with Gaussian Wasserstein Distance Loss _{^{Xue Yang, Junchi Yan, et al.}}	arXiv/Code SUPP
09	CVPR	ReDet: A Rotation-equivariant Detector for Aerial Object Detection _{^{Jiaming Han, Jian Ding, Nan Xue, Gui-Song Xia}}	Paper/Code
08	CVPR	Beyond Bounding-Box: Convex-Hull Feature Adaptation for Oriented and Densely Packed Object Detection _{^{Z. Guo, Qixiang Ye, et al.}}	Paper/Code/ Journal
07	CVPR	Dense Label Encoding for Boundary Discontinuity Free Rotation Detection _{^{Xue Yang, Junchi Yan, et al.}}	Paper/Code
06	CVPR	GAIA: A Transfer Learning System of Object Detection that Fits Your Needs `HBB` _{^{X. Bu, Zhaoxiang Zhang, et al.}}	Paper/Code
05	AAAI	Dynamic Anchor Learning for Arbitrary-Oriented Object Detection _{^{Qi Ming, Zhiqiang Zhou, et al.}}	Paper/Code
04	AAAI	Learning Modulated Loss for Rotated Object Detection `RSDet` _{^{Wen Qian, Xue Yang, Junchi Yang, et al.}}	Paper/arXiv Code
03	AAAI	R3Det: Refined Single-Stage Detector with Feature Refinement for Rotating Object _{^{Xue Yang, Junchi Yang, et al.}}	Paper/arXiv Py/TF
02	WACV	Oriented object detection in aerial images with box boundary-aware vectors _{^{Yi, Jingru and Wu, Pengxiang and Liu, Bo and Huang, Qiaoying and Qu, Hui and Metaxas, Dimitris}}	Paper/Code
01	PR	Gradient-Aligned Convolution Neural Network `rotation invariance` _{^{You Hao, Ping Hu, et al.}}	Paper/Code

2020

No.	Pub.	Title	Links
10	TIP	A Global-Local Self-Adaptive Network for Drone-View Object Detection _{^{Sutao Deng, et al.}}	Paper/Code
09	TNNLS	CRPN-SFNet: A High-Performance Object Detector on Large-Scale Remote Sensing Images _{^{Qifeng Lin, et al.}}	Paper/Code
08	JPRS	Orientation guided anchoring for geospatial object detection from remote sensing imagery _{^{Yongtao Yu, et al.}}	Paper/Code
07	JPRS	Rotation-aware and multi-scale convolutional neural network for object detection in remote sensing images _{^{Kun Fu, et al.}}	Paper/Code
06	JPRS	Oriented objects as pairs of middle lines _{^{Haoran Wei, et al.}}	Paper/Code
05	ECCV	Arbitrary-Oriented Object Detection with Circular Smooth Label `Conf` On the Arbitrary-Oriented Object Detection: Classification based Approaches Revisited `Journal` _{^{Xue Yang, Junchi Yan, Tao He}}	Paper/Code Code2/Journal Proj/Data
04	ECCV	PIoU Loss: Towards Accurate Oriented Object Detection in Complex Environments _{^{Zhiming Chen, Weiyao Lin, et al.}}	Paper/Code
03	ICME	Cascade Detector With Feature Fusion For Arbitrary-Oriented Objects In Remote Sensing Images _{^{Liping Hou, Ke Lu, et al.}}	Paper/Code
02	CVPR	Foreground-Aware Relation Network for Geospatial Object Segmentation in High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery _{^{Zhuo Zheng, et al.}}	Paper/Code
01	CVPR	Dynamic Refinement Network for Oriented and Densely Packed Object Detection _{^{X. Pan, Changsheng Xu, et al.}}	Paper/Code

2019

No.	Pub.	Title	Links
09	TIP	Learning Rotation-Invariant and Fisher Discriminative Convolutional Neural Networks for Object Detection _{^{Gong Cheng, Junwei Han, et al.}}	Paper/CVPR16 Code
08	TGRS	CAD-Net: A Context-Aware Detection Network for Objects in Remote Sensing Imagery _{^{Gongjie Zhang, Shijian Lu, Wei Zhang}}	Paper/arXiv Code
07	ICCV	Delving Into Robust Object Detection From Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Deep Nuisance Disentanglement Approach `HBB` _{^{Zhenyu Wu, et al.}}	Paper/Code
06	ICCV	SCRDet: Towards More Robust Detection for Small, Cluttered and Rotated Objects _{^{Xue Yang, Junchi Yan, et al.}}	Paper/Code
05	ICCV	Clustered Object Detection in Aerial Images `HBB` _{^{Fan Yang, Haibin Ling, et al.}}	Paper/Code
04	ICME	Cropping Region Proposal Network Based Framework for Efficient Object Detection on Large Scale Remote Sensing Images _{^{Qifeng Lin, et al.}}	Paper/Code
03	CVPR	Learning RoI Transformer for Oriented Object Detection in Aerial Images _{^{Jian Ding, Nan Xue, et al.}}	Paper/Code
02	CVPR	Precise Detection in Densely Packed Scenes `GOD` _{^{Eran Goldman, Roei Herzig, et al.}}	Paper/Code
01	CVPR	Towards Universal Object Detection by Domain Attention _{^{Xudong Wang, et al.}}	Paper/Code

2018

No.	Pub.	Title	Links
03	TIP	Random Access Memories: A New Paradigm for Target Detection in High Resolution Aerial Remote Sensing Images _{^{Zhengxia Zou, Zhenwei Shi}}	Paper/Code
02	CVPR	DOTA: A Large-Scale Dataset for Object Detection in Aerial Images _{^{Gui-Song Xia, Xiang Bai, Jian Ding, Zhen Zhu, et al.}}	Paper/Code
01	CVPR	ClusterNet: Detecting Small Objects in Large Scenes by Exploiting Spatio-Temporal Information `HBB` _{^{R. Londe, Dong Zhang, Mubarak Shah}}	Paper/arXiv Code

Before 2018

No.	Year	Pub.	Title	Links
04	2016	CVPR	RIFD-CNN: Rotation-Invariant and Fisher Discriminative Convolutional Neural Networks for Object Detection _{^{Gong Cheng, Peicheng Zhou, Junwei Han}}	Paper/Code
03	2016	TGRS	Learning Rotation-Invariant Convolutional Neural Networks for Object Detection in VHR Optical Remote Sensing Images _{^{Gong Cheng, Peicheng Zhou, Junwei Han}}	Paper/Code1 Code2
02	2016	ECCV	A Large Contextual Dataset for Classification, Detection and Counting of Cars with Deep Learning `[HBB]` _{^{T. Nathan Mundhenk, et al.}}	Paper/Code
01	2015	ICCV	Oriented Object Proposals _{^{Shengfeng He, Rynson W. H. Lau}}	Paper/Code

Instance Segmentation

Year	Pub.	Title	Links
2024	CVPR	Rotated Multi-Scale Interaction Network for Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation ^{_{Sihan Liu, Yiwei Ma, Xiaoqing Zhang, Haowei Wang, Jiayi Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Rongrong Ji}}	Paper/Code
2021	TCYB	Semantic Attention and Scale Complementary Network for Instance Segmentation in Remote Sensing Images ^{_{Tianyang Zhang, Licheng Jiao, et al.}}	Paper/Code
2020	CVPR	Foreground-Aware Relation Network for Geospatial Object Segmentation in High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery ^{_{Zhuo Zheng, et al.}}	Paper/Code

Small Object Detection

Year	Pub.	Title	Links
2024	ECCV	DQ-DETR: DETR with Dynamic Query for Tiny Object Detection _{^{Yi-Xin Huang, Hou-I Liu, Hong-Han Shuai, Wen-Huang Cheng}}	Paper/Code
2024	TCSVT	Save the Tiny, Save the All: Hierarchical Activation Network for Tiny Object Detection _{^{Guangqian Guo; Pengfei Chen; Xuehui Yu; Zhenjun Han; Qixiang Ye; Shan Gao}}	Paper/Code
2023	arXiv	Transformers in Small Object Detection: A Benchmark and Survey of State-of-the-Art _{^{Aref Miri Rekavandi, Shima Rashidi, Farid Boussaid, Stephen Hoefs, Emre Akbas, Mohammed Bennamoun}}	Paper/Code
2023	ICCV	Small Object Detection via Coarse-to-fine Proposal Generation and Imitation Learning _{^{Xiang Yuan, Gong Cheng, Kebing Yan, Qinghua Zeng, Junwei Han}}	Paper/Code
2023	PAMI	Towards Large-Scale Small Object Detection: Survey and Benchmarks _{^{Gong Cheng, Xiang Yuan, Xiwen Yao, Kebing Yan, Qinghua Zeng, Junwei Han}}	Paper/Data
2022	JPRS	Detecting tiny objects in aerial images: A normalized Wasserstein distance and a new benchmark _{^{Chang Xu, Jinwang Wang, Wen Yang, Huai Yua, Lei Yua, Gui-SongXi}}	Paper/Code
2022	ECCV	RFLA: Gaussian Receptive Field based Label Assignment for Tiny Object Detection _{^{Chang Xu, Jinwang Wang, Wen Yang, Huai Yu, Lei Yu, Gui-Song Xia}}	Paper/Code
2022	CVPR	QueryDet: Cascaded Sparse Query for Accelerating High-Resolution Small Object Detection _{^{Chenhongyi Yang, Zehao Huang, Naiyan Wang}}	Paper/Code
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2021	arXiv07	A Survey on Deep Domain Adaptation and Tiny Object Detection Challenges, Techniques and Datasets _{^{Muhammed Muzammul, Xi Li}}	Paper/Code
2021	TMM	Extended Feature Pyramid Network for Small Object Detection _{^{Chunfang Deng, et al.}}	Paper/Code
2021	TMM	CrossNet: Detecting Objects as Crosses _{^{Jiaxu Leng, Xinbo Gao, et al.}}	Paper/Code
2021	CVPR	Dot distance for tiny object detection in aerial images _{^{Chang Xu, Jinwang Wang, Wen Yang, Lei Yu}}	Paper/Code
2021	CVPR	Dogfight: Detecting Drones from Drones Videos _{^{M. Ashraf, W. Sultani, Mubarak Shah}}	Paper/Code
2021	WACV	Effective Fusion Factor in FPN for Tiny Object Detection _{^{Yuqi Gong, Zhenjun Han, et al.}}	Paper/Code
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2020	IJCV	Multi-task Generative Adversarial Network for Detecting Small Objects in the Wild _{^{Yongqiang Zhang, Yancheng Bai, et al.}}	Paper/CVPR18 ECCV18/Code
2020	TCYB	Context-Aware Block Net for Small Object Detection _{^{Lisha Cui, et al.}}	Paper/Code
2020	MM	CODAN: Counting-driven Attention Network for Vehicle Detection in Congested Scenes _{^{Wei Li, et al.}}	Paper/Code
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2019	arXiv02	Augmentation for small object detection _{^{Mate Kisantal, et al.}}	Paper/Code
2019	TCSVT	Detecting Small Objects Using a Channel-Aware Deconvolutional Network _{^{Kaiwen Duan, Dawei Du, et al.}}	Paper/Code
2019	TGRS	R2 -CNN: Fast Tiny Object Detection in Large-Scale Remote Sensing Images _{^{J. Pang, Jianping Shi, et al.}}	Paper/Code
2019	ICCV	Better to Follow, Follow to Be Better: Towards Precise Supervision of Feature Super-Resolution for Small Object Detection _{^{Junhyug Noh, et al.}}	Paper/Code
2019	ICCV	Miss Detection vs. False Alarm: Adversarial Learning for Small Object Segmentation in Infrared Images _{^{Huan Wang, Luping Zhou, Lei Wang}}	Paper/Code
2019	MM	Small and Dense Commodity Object Detection with Multi-Receptive Field Attention _{^{Zhong Ji, Yanwei Pang, et al.}}	Paper/Code
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2018	CVPR	Finding Tiny Faces in the Wild With Generative Adversarial Network _{^{Yancheng Bai, Bernard Ghanem, et al.}}	Paper/Code
2017	ICCV	Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection _{^{Tsung-Yi, Kaiming He, et al.}}	Paper/Code
2017	CVPR	Perceptual Generative Adversarial Networks for Small Object Detection _{^{Jianan Li, Tingfa Xu, et al.}}	Paper/Code

UAV Object Detection

Year	Pub.	Title	Authors	Links
2021	CVPR	Detection, Tracking, and Counting Meets Drones in Crowds: A Benchmark	Longyin Wen, Dawei Du, et al.	Paper/Code
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2020	arXiv	Vision Meets Drones: Past, Present and Future	Pengfei Zhu, Dawei Du, et al.	Paper/Code
2020	IJCV	The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Benchmark: Object Detection, Tracking and Baseline	Hongyang Yu, Dawei Du, et al.	Paper/Proj ECCV18
2020	MM	MOR-UAV: A Benchmark Dataset and Baselines for Moving Object Recognition in UAV Videos	M. Mandal, Lav Kumar, S. Vipparthi	Paper/Code
2020	MM	Guided Attention Network for Object Detection and Counting on Drones	Y. Cai, Dawei Du, et al.	Paper/Code

Dataset

Year	Name	Paper	Pub.
2022	SODA	Towards Large-Scale Small Object Detection: Survey and Benchmarks `[OBB]`	Paper
2021	FAIR1M	FAIR1M: A Benchmark Dataset for Fine-grained Object Recognition in High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery `[OBB]`	arXiv Intro-ch
2021	SaRNet	SaRNet: A Dataset for Deep Learning Assisted Search and Rescue with Satellite Imagery `[HBB]`	arXiv
2021	AI-TOD	Tiny Object Detection in Aerial Images `[HBB]`	ICPR
2019	DIOR	Object detection in optical remote sensing images: A survey and a new benchmark `[HBB]`	ISPRSJ
2019	iSAID	iSAID: A Large-scale Dataset for Instance Segmentation in Aerial Images	CVPRW
2019	HRRSD	Hierarchical and Robust Convolutional Neural Network for Very High-Resolution Remote Sensing Object Detection	TGRS
2019	VRAI	Vehicle Re-identification in Aerial Imagery: Dataset and Approach	ICCV
2019	ITCVD	Vehicle Detection in Aerial Images	PERS
2019	Aerial Elephant	The Aerial Elephant Dataset: A New Public Benchmark for Aerial Object Detection	CVPRW
2018	DOTA	DOTA: A Large-Scale Dataset for Object Detection in Aerial Images	CVPR/Kit
2018	xView	xView: Objects in Context in Overhead Imagery `[HBB]`	arXiv/Kit
2018	VisDrone	Vision Meets Drones: Past, Present and Future `[HBB]`	arXiv/Data
2018	LPODC	DAC-SDC Low Power Object Detection Challenge for UAV Applications `[HBB]`	PAMI
2018	UAVDT	The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Benchmark: Object Detection and Tracking	ECCV
2016	NWPU VHR-10	Learning rotation-invariant convolutional neural networks for object detection in VHR optical remote sensing images	TGRS
2016	RSOD	Accurate Object Localization in Remote Sensing Images Based on Convolutional Neural Networks	TGRS
2016	HRSC 2016	A High Resolution Optical Satellite Image Dataset for Ship Recognition and Some New Baselines	ICPRAM Kaggle
2015	VEDAI	Vehicle Detection in Aerial Imagery: A small target detection benchmark	JVCIR
2014	UCAS-AOD	Orientation robust object detection in aerial images using deep convolutional neural network	ICIP

Appendix

GOD

Year	Pub.	Title	Authors	Links
2021	arXiv09	Progressive Hard-case Mining across Pyramid Levels in Object Detection	Binghong Wu, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	arXiv04	Slender Object Detection: Diagnoses and Improvements	Zhaoyi Wan, Yimin Chen, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	arXiv01	Focal and Efficient IOU Loss for Accurate Bounding Box Regression	Yi-Fan Zhang, Liang Wang, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	NeurIPS	You Only Look at One Sequence: Rethinking Transformer in Vision through Object Detection	Yuxin Fang, Xinggang Wang, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	PAMI	Scale Normalized Image Pyramids with AutoFocus for Object Detection	Bharat Singh, Mahyar Najibi, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	IJCV	Compositional Convolutional Neural Networks: A Robust and Interpretable Model for Object Recognition Under Occlusion	Adam Kortylewski, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	IJCV	Scale-Aware Domain Adaptive Faster R-CNN	Y. Chen, D. Dai, Luc Van Gool, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	IJCV	Guided Attention in CNNs for Occluded Pedestrian Detection and Re-identification	S. Zhang, Di Chen, Jian Yang, Bernt Schiele	Paper/Code
2021	ICCV	SOTR: Segmenting Objects With Transformers	Ruohao Guo, Dantong Niu, Liao Qu, Zhenbo Li	Paper/Code
2021	ICCV	Dynamic DETR: End-to-End Object Detection With Dynamic Attention	Xiyang Dai, Lu Yuan; Lei Zhang, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	ICCV	CrossDet: Crossline Representation for Object Detection	Heqian Qiu, Hongliang Li, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	CVPR	UP-DETR: Unsupervised Pre-training for Object Detection with Transformers	Z. Dai, J. Chen, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	CVPR	Adaptive Image Transformer for One-Shot Object Detection	Ding-Jie Chen, He-Yen Hsieh, Tyng-Luh Liu	Paper/Code
2021	CVPR	Scale-aware Automatic Augmentation for Object Detection	Yukang Chen, Jiaya Jia, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	CVPR	Sparse R-CNN: End-to-End Object Detection with Learnable Proposals	Peize Sun, Ping Luo, et al.	Paper/Code arXiv
2021	ICLR	Deformable DETR: Deformable Transformers for End-to-End Object Detection	Xizhou Zhu, Xiaogang Wang, Jifeng Dai, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	ICLR	On the Universality of Rotation Equivariant Point Cloud Networks	Nadav Dym, Haggai Maron	Paper/Code
2021	AAAI	Rethinking Object Detection in Retail Stores	Yuanqiang Cai, Dawei Du, etc	Paper/Code
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2020	NeurIPS	RepPoints V2: Verification Meets Regression for Object Detection	Yihong Chen, Zheng Zhang, et al.	Paper/Code
2020	TIP	Self-Supervised Feature Augmentation for Large Image Object Detection	Xingjia Pan, et al.	Paper/Code
2020	ECCV	End-to-End Object Detection with Transformers `DETR`	Carion N, et al.	Paper/Code
2020	ECCV	Learning Data Augmentation Strategies for Object Detection	Barret Zoph, Quoc V. Le, et al.	Paper/Code
2020	ECCV	Learning to Separate: Detecting Heavily-Occluded Objects in Urban Scenes	Chenhongyi Yang, et al.	Paper/Code
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2019	IJCV	CornerNet: Detecting Objects as Paired Keypoints	Hei Law, Jia Deng	Paper/arXiv ECCV18/Code
2019	IJCV	Corner Detection Using Multi-directional Structure Tensor with Multiple Scales	Weichuan Zhang, Changming Sun	Paper/Code
2019	IJCV	Hierarchical Attention for Part-Aware Face Detection	Shuzhe Wu, Meina Kan, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen	Paper/Code
2019	TIP	Combining Faster R-CNN and Model-Driven Clustering for Elongated Object Detection	Fen Fang, et al.	Paper/Code
2019	arXiv	Deep Learning for 2D and 3D Rotatable Data: An Overview of Methods	Luca Della Libera, Daniel Cremers, et al.	Paper/Code
2019	ICCV	AutoFocus: Efficient Multi-Scale Inference	Mahyar Najibi, Bharat Singh, Larry S. Davis	Paper/Code
2019	ICCV	Scale-Aware Trident Networks for Object Detection	Yanghao Li, Naiyan Wang, et al.	Paper/Code
2019	ICCV	RepPoints: Point Set Representation for Object Detection	Ze Yang, Han Hu, et al.	Paper/Code
2019	CVPR	Self-Supervised Representation Learning by Rotation Feature Decoupling	Zeyu Feng, Chang Xu, Dacheng Tao	Paper/Code
2019	ICLR	A rotation-equivariant convolutional neural network model of primary visual cortex	Alexander S. Ecker, et al.	Paper/Code
2019	ICLR	RotDCF: Decomposition of Convolutional Filters for Rotation-Equivariant Deep Networks	Xiuyuan Cheng, et al.	Paper/Code
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2018	PAMI	Convolutional Oriented Boundaries: From Image Segmentation to High-Level Tasks	Luc Van Gool, et al.	Paper/Code
2018	TIP	Joint Hand Detection and Rotation Estimation Using CNN	Xiaoming Deng, et al.	Paper/Code
2018	ECCV	Occlusion-aware R-CNN: Detecting Pedestrians in a Crowd	Shifeng Zhang, et al.	Paper/Code
2018	ECCV	SAN: Learning Relationship between Convolutional Features for Multi-Scale Object Detection	Yonghyun Kim, et al.	Paper/Code
2018	NeurIPS	SNIPER: Efficient Multi-Scale Training	Bharat Singh, Mahyar Najibi, Larry S. Davis	Paper/Code
2018	CVPR	An Analysis of Scale Invariance in Object Detection - SNIP	Bharat Singh, Larry S. Davis	Paper/Code
2018	ICLR	Unsupervised Representation Learning by Predicting Image Rotations	S. Gidaris, P. Singh, et al.	Paper/Code

Arbitrarily-Oriented Text Detection

Year	Pub.	Title	Authors	Links
2021	ICCV	Adaptive Boundary Proposal Network for Arbitrary Shape Text Detection	Shi-Xue Zhang, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	PAMI	PAN++: Towards Efficient and Accurate End-to-End Spotting of Arbitrarily-Shaped Text	Wenhai Wang, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	PAMI	Towards End-to-End Text Spotting in Natural Scenes	Peng Wang, Hui Li, Chunhua Shen	Paper/Code
2021	PAMI	Mask TextSpotter: An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network for Spotting Text with Arbitrary Shapes	Minghui Liao, Pengyuan Lyu, et al.	Paper/ECCV18
2021	IJCV	Exploring the Capacity of an Orderless Box Discretization Network for Multi-orientation Scene Text Detection	Yuliang Liu, Chunhua Shen, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	TIP	Arbitrarily Shaped Scene Text Detection With a Mask Tightness Text Detector	Yuliang Liu, Lianwen Jin, Chuanming Fang	Paper/Code
2021	TIP	SLOAN: Scale-Adaptive Orientation Attention Network for Scene Text Recognition	Pengwen Dai, Hua Zhang, Xiaochun Cao	Paper/Code
2021	MM	Mask is All You Need: Rethinking Mask R-CNN for Dense and Arbitrary-Shaped Scene Text Detection	Xugong Qin, Yu Zhou, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	CVPR	Fourier Contour Embedding for Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detection	Yiqin Zhu, Lianwen Jin, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	CVPR	Progressive Contour Regression for Arbitrary-Shape Scene Text Detection	Pengwen Dai, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	CVPR	MOST: A Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detector with Localization Refinement	Minghang He, Xiang Bai, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	AAAI	MANGO: A Mask Attention Guided One-Stage Scene Text Spotter	Liang Qiao, Ying Chen, et al.	Paper/Code
2021	AAAI	PGNet: Real-time Arbitrarily-Shaped Text Spotting with Point Gathering Network	Pengfei Wang, et al.	Paper/Code
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2020	TIP	ASTS: A Unified Framework for Arbitrary Shape Text Spotting	Juhua Liu, Zhe Chen, Bo Du, Dacheng Tao	Paper/Code
2020	TIP	Text Co-Detection in Multi-View Scene	Chuan Wang, Huazhu Fu, et al.	Paper/Code
2020	ECCV	Character Region Attention For Text Spotting	Youngmin Baek, et al.	Paper/Code
2020	CVPR	ContourNet: Taking a Further Step Toward Accurate Arbitrary-Shaped Scene Text Detection	Yuxin Wang, Zilong Fu, et al.	Paper/Code
2020	CVPR	Deep Relational Reasoning Graph Network for Arbitrary Shape Text Detection	Shi-Xue Zhang, et al.	Paper/Code
2020	AAAI	Text Perceptron: Towards End-to-End Arbitrary-Shaped Text Spotting	Liang Qiao, et al.	Paper/Code
2020	AAAI	All You Need Is Boundary: Toward Arbitrary-Shaped Text Spotting	Hao Wang, Xiang Bai, et al.	Paper/Code
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2019	ICCV	Efficient and Accurate Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detection With Pixel Aggregation Network	Wenhai Wang, et al.	Paper/Code
2019	ICCV	TextDragon: An End-to-End Framework for Arbitrary Shaped Text Spotting	Wei Feng, Cheng-Lin Liu, et al.	Paper/Code
2019	CVPR	Learning Shape-Aware Embedding for Scene Text Detection	Zhuotao Tian, Jiaya Jia, et al.	Paper/Code
2019	CVPR	Arbitrary Shape Scene Text Detection with Adaptive Text Region Representation	Xiaobing Wang, Cheng-Lin Liu, et al.	Paper/Code
2019	CVPR	Towards Robust Curve Text Detection with Conditional Spatial Expansion	Zichuan Liu, Guosheng Lin, et al.	Paper/Code
2019	CVPR	Shape Robust Text Detection with Progressive Scale Expansion Network	Wenhai Wang, , Tong Lu, et al.	Paper/Code
2019	CVPR	Look More Than Once: An Accurate Detector for Text of Arbitrary Shapes	Chengquan Zhan, et al.	Paper/Code
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2018	TIP	Multi-Oriented and Multi-Lingual Scene Text Detection With Direct Regression	Wenhao He, Cheng-Lin Liu, et al.
2018	TIP	TextBoxes++: A Single-Shot Oriented Scene Text Detector	Minghui Liao, Baoguang She, Xiang Bai
2018	TMM	Arbitrary-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Rotation Proposals	Jianqi Ma, et al.	Paper/Code
2018	ECCV	TextSnake: A Flexible Representation for Detecting Text of Arbitrary Shapes	Shangbang Long, Jiaqiang Ruan, et al.
2018	CVPR	Geometry-Aware Scene Text Detection with Instance Transformation Network	Fangfang Wang, et al.	Paper/Code
2018	CVPR	Rotation-Sensitive Regression for Oriented Scene Text Detection	Minghui Liao, Xiang Bai, et al.
2018	CVPR	AON: Towards Arbitrarily-Oriented Text Recognition
2018	CVPR	FOTS: Fast Oriented Text Spotting With a Unified Network
2018	CVPR	Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Corner Localization and Region Segmentation
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2017	TIP	Tracking Based Multi-Orientation Scene Text Detection: A Unified Framework With Dynamic Programming	Chun Yang, Junchi Yan, et al.
2017	ICCV	Deep Direct Regression for Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detection
2017	ICCV	Deep TextSpotter: An End-to-End Trainable Scene Text Localization and Recognition Framework	M. Busta, L. Neumann, Jiri Matas	Paper/Code
2017	CVPR	Deep Matching Prior Network: Toward Tighter Multi-oriented Text Detection	Yuliang Liu, Lianwen Jin	Paper/Code

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