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Advances in Object Detection and Recognition

Submission Deadline: 15 April 2026 View: 697 Submit to Special Issue

Guest Editors

Dr. Christine Dewi

Email: christine.dewi@uksw.edu

Affiliation: 1. School of Information Technology, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood VIC 3125, Australia; 

2. Department of Information Technology, Satya Wacana Christian University, 52-60 Diponegoro Rd, Salatiga City, 50711, Indonesia

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Research Interests: Image Processing, Computer Vision, Object Detection and Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, knowledge-guided, and Machine Learning

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Prof. Rung-Ching Chen

Email: crching@cyut.edu.tw

Affiliation: Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung 413310, Taiwan

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Research Interests: Pattern Recognition and Knowledge Engineering IoT and Data Analysis Applications of Artificial Intelligent Computer Vision Image Processing

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Summary

Object detection and recognition are foundational components in computer vision, enabling intelligent systems to perceive, interpret, and act upon visual information. These capabilities are critical to a broad spectrum of applications, including autonomous driving, medical diagnostics, industrial automation, robotics, and intelligent surveillance.


In recent years, the field has witnessed transformative progress driven by deep learning techniques such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), vision transformers (ViTs), and attention mechanisms. However, numerous challenges remain—such as improving detection speed and accuracy in real-world scenarios, handling small or occluded objects, and enabling models to generalize with limited annotated data.

This Special Issue of Computers, Materials & Continua aims to showcase innovative research addressing both theoretical advances and practical implementations in object detection and recognition. We invite contributions covering a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
· Lightweight models for real-time detection
· Multi-scale feature fusion and enhancement
· Recognition of small or occluded objects
· Few-shot and zero-shot learning strategies
· Multi-modal approaches incorporating visual, textual, or spatial data
· Knowledge graphs and knowledge-guided machine learning
· Object/image detection, classification, and identification
· Use of ViTs and Graph Convolutional Networks for object understanding

We particularly welcome studies that present novel methods with strong real-world implications—such as in biomedical imaging, or autonomous navigation—and works that address robustness, domain adaptation, and efficient annotation. This Special Issue seeks to bring together researchers, engineers, and practitioners from academia and industry to explore emerging trends and share cutting-edge solutions in the domain of object detection and recognition.


Keywords

Object recognition, Object Detection, Image Classification, Vision Transformer, Graph Convolutional Network.

Published Papers


  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Hybrid Quantum Gate Enabled CNN Framework with Optimized Features for Human-Object Detection and Recognition

    Nouf Abdullah Almujally, Tanvir Fatima Naik Bukht, Shuaa S. Alharbi, Asaad Algarni, Ahmad Jalal, Jeongmin Park
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.072243
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Advances in Object Detection and Recognition)
    Abstract Recognising human-object interactions (HOI) is a challenging task for traditional machine learning models, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Existing models show limited transferability across complex datasets such as D3D-HOI and SYSU 3D HOI. The conventional architecture of CNNs restricts their ability to handle HOI scenarios with high complexity. HOI recognition requires improved feature extraction methods to overcome the current limitations in accuracy and scalability. This work proposes a Novel quantum gate-enabled hybrid CNN (QEH-CNN) for effective HOI recognition. The model enhances CNN performance by integrating quantum computing components. The framework begins with bilateral image filtering,… More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Transformer-Driven Multimodal for Human-Object Detection and Recognition for Intelligent Robotic Surveillance

    Aman Aman Ullah, Yanfeng Wu, Shaheryar Najam, Nouf Abdullah Almujally, Ahmad Jalal, Hui Liu
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.072508
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Advances in Object Detection and Recognition)
    Abstract Human object detection and recognition is essential for elderly monitoring and assisted living however, models relying solely on pose or scene context often struggle in cluttered or visually ambiguous settings. To address this, we present SCENET-3D, a transformer-driven multimodal framework that unifies human-centric skeleton features with scene-object semantics for intelligent robotic vision through a three-stage pipeline. In the first stage, scene analysis, rich geometric and texture descriptors are extracted from RGB frames, including surface-normal histograms, angles between neighboring normals, Zernike moments, directional standard deviation, and Gabor-filter responses. In the second stage, scene-object analysis, non-human objects… More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Privacy-Preserving Personnel Detection in Substations via Federated Learning with Dynamic Noise Adaptation

    Yuewei Tian, Yang Su, Yujia Wang, Lisa Guo, Xuyang Wu, Lei Cao, Fang Ren
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.86, No.3, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.072081
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Advances in Object Detection and Recognition)
    Abstract This study addresses the risk of privacy leakage during the transmission and sharing of multimodal data in smart grid substations by proposing a three-tier privacy-preserving architecture based on asynchronous federated learning. The framework integrates blockchain technology, the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) for distributed storage, and a dynamic differential privacy mechanism to achieve collaborative security across the storage, service, and federated coordination layers. It accommodates both multimodal data classification and object detection tasks, enabling the identification and localization of key targets and abnormal behaviors in substation scenarios while ensuring privacy protection. This effectively mitigates the single-point… More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Traffic Vision: UAV-Based Vehicle Detection and Traffic Pattern Analysis via Deep Learning Classifier

    Mohammed Alnusayri, Ghulam Mujtaba, Nouf Abdullah Almujally, Shuoa S. Aitarbi, Asaad Algarni, Ahmad Jalal, Jeongmin Park
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.86, No.3, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.071804
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Advances in Object Detection and Recognition)
    Abstract This paper presents a unified Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-based (UAV-based) traffic monitoring framework that integrates vehicle detection, tracking, counting, motion prediction, and classification in a modular and co-optimized pipeline. Unlike prior works that address these tasks in isolation, our approach combines You Only Look Once (YOLO) v10 detection, ByteTrack tracking, optical-flow density estimation, Long Short-Term Memory-based (LSTM-based) trajectory forecasting, and hybrid Speeded-Up Robust Feature (SURF) + Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) feature engineering with VGG16 classification. Upon the validation across datasets (UAVDT and UAVID) our framework achieved a detection accuracy of 94.2%, and 92.3% detection accuracy when More >

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