Learning Where to Embed: Noise-Aware Positional Embedding for Query Retrieval in Small-Object Detection.

@inproceedings{zeng-2026-learning, author = {Yangchen Zeng and Zhenyu Yu and Dongming Jiang and Wenbo Zhang and Yifan Hong and Zhanhua Hu and Jiao Luo and Kangning Cui}, editor = {Stevan Rudinac and Zi Huang and Marcel Worring and Lucia Vadicamo and Xirong Li and Pascal Mettes and Lizi Liao}, title = {{Learning Where to Embed: Noise-Aware Positional Embedding for Query Retrieval in Small-Object Detection}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR 2026, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 16-19, 2026}}, pages = {1260--1269}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805622.3810593}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805622.3810593} }