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Advanced Object Detection and Visual Understanding in Intelligent Systems

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2026 View: 837 Submit to Special Issue

Guest Editor(s)

Dr. Youyang Qu

Email: youyang.qu@data61.csiro.au

Affiliation: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia

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Research Interests: edge intelligence, object detection, computer vision, etc.


Dr. Di Wu

Email: d.wu@latrobe.edu.au

Affiliation: Engineering and Mathematical Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

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Research Interests: federated learning, computer vision, multi-modal LLM


Dr. Jun Bai

Email: jun.bai@mcgill.ca

Affiliation: School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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Research Interests: distributed compter vsion, AI for health, federated LLM/agent


Summary

Recent advances in artificial intelligence and computer vision have significantly improved the capability of machines to perceive and understand visual information. Among these technologies, object detection has become a fundamental component for numerous applications, including autonomous systems, intelligent surveillance, medical imaging, and industrial inspection. However, real-world visual data are often affected by challenges such as low resolution, noise, occlusion, and complex environments, which may significantly degrade the performance of detection systems.


This Special Issue aims to explore recent advances in object detection and related visual perception techniques in intelligent systems. In addition to core detection algorithms, the issue also welcomes research on image enhancement, super-resolution, restoration, and feature representation methods that can improve the robustness and accuracy of object detection pipelines. The goal is to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to present innovative methodologies, practical applications, and system-level solutions that advance the reliability and efficiency of visual perception technologies.


Suggested themes include, but are not limited to:
•  Advanced object detection algorithms and architectures
•  Object detection under challenging conditions (e.g., low resolution, noise, occlusion)
•  Image super-resolution and restoration for visual perception systems
•  Multi-modal and cross-domain object detection
•  Lightweight and edge-based detection models for intelligent systems
•  Object detection applications in industrial inspection, smart grid, etc.


Keywords

object detection, visual perception systems, detection under challenging conditions, image super-resolution, image enhancement

Published Papers


  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Integrating Texture Attention and Task Guidance for Waterline Keypoint Detection

    Jinlin Chen, Yiquan Wu
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.085761
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Advanced Object Detection and Visual Understanding in Intelligent Systems)
    Abstract Accurate waterline detection is critical for automated ship draft monitoring but remains challenging due to weak textures, low contrast, and dynamic maritime interferences. This paper presents TGNet, a task-guided framework that jointly optimizes character recognition and waterline keypoint localization. TGNet introduces a triple attention network (TAnet) with channel, spatial, and texture attention modules to enhance discriminative feature extraction. Crucially, a task-to-task guidance mechanism leverages detected draft characters to spatially constrain and crop feature maps, focusing the keypoint detection head on the most relevant waterline region. Extensive experiments on three large-scale aerial datasets show that TAnet More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    EMW-YOLO: A Detail-Preserving and Multi-Scale Fusion Detector for Remote Sensing Small Object Detection

    Heng Wang, Shichao Li, Long Xu, Chuqiao Wang, Yanzhou Feng, Zou Zhou
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.083432
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Advanced Object Detection and Visual Understanding in Intelligent Systems)
    Abstract The inherent challenges of small objects in remote sensing imagery encompass the degradation of fine-grained spatial details throughout the downsampling stages, semantic inconsistency during multi-level feature fusion, along with unreliable localization caused by noisy samples. To address these issues, this paper proposes an efficient small-object detector termed EMW-YOLO. An Efficient Down-sampling (EDS) module is introduced to preserve fine-grained spatial information and enhance feature representation during feature extraction through spatial rearrangement and cross-dimensional attention. A Multi-Scale Fusion and Enhancement (MSFE) architecture is further developed to improve semantic consistency across feature levels by combining local enhancement with More >

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