AI RESEARCH

Rank-Aware Quantile Activation for Motion-Robust Crop Segmentation in UAV Imagery

arXiv CS.CV

ArXi:2606.01118v1 Announce Type: new Motion blur from high-speed UAV acquisition de-grades semantic segmentation on rare texture-dependent classes with high agronomic value. Standard CNNs rely on high-frequency magnitude features that blur destroys, causing statistical erasure of minority signals. We propose Dual Quantile Activation (QAct), a rank-aware block replacing magnitude gating with instance-level rank normalization.