VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Todd Nelling
dblp:393/0938
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Image recognition and object detection · 46% Vision and language · 23% Information extraction and text analysis · 23% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computer vision › Image recognition and object detection
object detection |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | An Application-Agnostic Automatic Target Recognition System Using Vision Language Models · AAAI 2025 |
Computer vision › Image recognition and object detection › object detection
open-vocabulary object detection |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | An Application-Agnostic Automatic Target Recognition System Using Vision Language Models · AAAI 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Information extraction and text analysis › open vocabulary learning
open-vocabulary recognition |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | An Application-Agnostic Automatic Target Recognition System Using Vision Language Models · AAAI 2025 |
Computer vision › Vision and language
vision-language model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | An Application-Agnostic Automatic Target Recognition System Using Vision Language Models · AAAI 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
vision-language model · 0.9kernel density estimation · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | An Application-Agnostic Automatic Target Recognition System Using Vision Language ModelsabstractWe present a novel Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) system using open-vocabulary object detection and classification models. A primary advantage of this approach is that target classes can be defined just before runtime by a non-technical end user, using either a few natural language text descriptions of the target, or a few image exemplars, or both. Nuances in the desired targets can be expressed in natural language, which is useful for unique targets with little or no training data. We also implemented a novel combination of several techniques to improve performance, such as leveraging the additional information in the sequence of overlapping frames to perform tubelet identification (i.e., sequential bounding box matching), bounding box re-scoring, and tubelet linking. Additionally, we developed a technique to visualize the aggregate output of many overlapping frames as a mosaic of the area scanned during the aerial surveillance or reconnaissance, and a kernel density estimate (or heatmap) of the detected targets. We initially applied this ATR system to the use case of detecting and clearing unexploded ordinance on airfield runways and we are currently extending our research to other real-world applications. Anthony Palladino, Dana Gajewski, Abigail Aronica, Patryk Deptula, Alexander Hamme, Seiyoung C. Lee, Jeff Muri, Todd Nelling, Michael A. Riley, Margaret Duff |
AAAI | 8 |