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Border security had been a persistent problem in international border especially when it get to the issue of preventing illegal movement of weapons, contraband, drugs, and combating issue of illegal or undocumented immigrant while at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Tosin Ige , Abosede Kolade , Olukunle Kolade

Object detection from images captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is becoming increasingly useful. Despite the great success of the generic object detection methods trained on ground-to-ground images, a huge performance drop is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zhenyu Wu , Karthik Suresh , Priya Narayanan , Hongyu Xu , Heesung Kwon , Zhangyang Wang

This paper describes a system by which Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can gather high-quality face images that can be used in biometric identification tasks. Success in face-based identification depends in large part on the image quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Nagashri Lakshminarayana , Yifang Liu , Karthik Dantu , Venu Govindaraju , Nils Napp

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used for object detection. However, the existing UAV-based object detection systems are subject to the serious challenge, namely, the finite computation, energy and communication resources, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Xi Song , Lu Yuan , Zhibo Qu , Fuhui Zhou , Qihui Wu , Tony Q. S. Quek , Rose Qingyang Hu

Drones have proven to be useful in many industry segments such as security and surveillance, where e.g. on-board real-time object tracking is a necessity for autonomous flying guards. Tracking and following suspicious objects is therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Maarten Vandersteegen , Kristof Vanbeeck , Toon goedeme

In this paper, we present a subsystem, using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), for search and rescue missions, focusing on people detection, face recognition and tracking of identified individuals. The proposed solution integrates a UAV with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Luka Šiktar , Branimir Ćaran , Bojan Šekoranja , Marko Švaco

Learning to detect objects, such as humans, in imagery captured by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) usually suffers from tremendous variations caused by the UAV's position towards the objects. In addition, existing UAV-based benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yi-Ting Shen , Yaesop Lee , Heesung Kwon , Damon M. Conover , Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya , Nikolas Vale , Joshua D. Gray , G. Jeremy Leong , Kenneth Evensen , Frank Skirlo

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are crucial in Search and Rescue (SAR) missions due to their ability to monitor vast maritime areas. However, small objects often remain difficult to detect from high altitudes due to low object-to-background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sakib Ahmed , Oscar Pizarro

Motivated by the advances in deep learning techniques, the application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based object detection has proliferated across a range of fields, including vehicle counting, fire detection, and city monitoring. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Jiashun Suo , Xingzhou Zhang , Weisong Shi , Wei Zhou

This paper proposes a thresholding approach for crack detection in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based infrastructure inspection system. The proposed algorithm performs recursively on the intensity histogram of UAV-taken images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Q. Zhu , T. H. Dinh , V. T. Hoang , M. D. Phung , Q. P. Ha

Recent advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have resulted in their quick adoption for wide a range of civilian applications, including precision agriculture, biosecurity, disaster monitoring and surveillance. UAVs offer low-cost…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Juan Sandino , Peter A. Caccetta , Conrad Sanderson , Frederic Maire , Felipe Gonzalez

Assessing collision risk is a critical challenge to effective traffic safety management. The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to address this issue has shown much promise, given their wide visual field and movement flexibility.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Shuya Zong , Sikai Chen , Majed Alinizzi , Yujie Li , Samuel Labi

Object detection from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is of great importance in many aerial vision-based applications. Despite the great success of generic object detection methods, a significant performance drop is observed when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Benjamin Kiefer , Martin Messmer , Andreas Zell

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) are emerging as a promising technology for both environmental and infrastructure monitoring, with broad use in a plethora of applications. Many such applications require the use of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Christos Kyrkou , George Plastiras , Stylianos Venieris , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

How can we effectively engineer a computer vision system that is able to interpret videos from unconstrained mobility platforms like UAVs? One promising option is to make use of image restoration and enhancement algorithms from the area of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Sreya Banerjee , Rosaura G. VidalMata , Zhangyang Wang , Walter J. Scheirer

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), equipped with cameras, are employed in numerous applications, including aerial photography, surveillance, and agriculture. In these applications, robust object detection and tracking are essential for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Hui Ye , Rajshekhar Sunderraman , Shihao Ji

Vision-based pose estimation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) in unknown environments is a rapidly growing research area in the field of robot vision. The task becomes more complex when the only available sensor is a static single camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Ram Prasad Padhy , Shahzad Ahmad , Sachin Verma , Pankaj Kumar Sa , Sambit Bakshi

The purpose of this paper is to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using a quadcopter with the capability of video surveillance, map coordinates, a deployable parachute with a medicine kit or a food pack as a payload, a collision…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Manuel Luis C. Delos Santos , Jerum B. Dasalla , Jomar C. Feliciano , Dustin Red B. Cabatay

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery presents significant challenges. Issues such as densely packed small objects, scale variations, and occlusion are commonplace. This paper introduces RT-DETR++, which enhances the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yuan Shufang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have recently shown great performance collecting visual data through autonomous exploration and mapping in building inspection. Yet, the number of studies is limited considering the post processing of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Fatih Kucuksubasi , Arzu Sorguc