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Super-resolution, which aims to reconstruct high-resolution images from low-resolution images, has drawn considerable attention and has been intensively studied in computer vision and remote sensing communities. The super-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Rui Li , Xiaowei Zhao

Air-to-air tracking of swarm UAVs presents significant challenges due to the complex nonlinear group motion and weak visual cues for small objects, which often cause detection failures, trajectory fragmentation, and identity switches.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Zhaochen Chu , Tao Song , Ren Jin , Shaoming He , Defu Lin , Siqing Cheng

Establishing consistent and dense correspondences across multiple images is crucial for Structure from Motion (SfM) systems. Significant view changes, such as air-to-ground with very sparse view overlap, pose an even greater challenge to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Gonglin Chen , Jinsen Wu , Haiwei Chen , Wenbin Teng , Zhiyuan Gao , Andrew Feng , Rongjun Qin , Yajie Zhao

In this paper, we consider a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted oblique image acquisition system where a UAV is dispatched to take images of multiple ground targets (GTs). To study the three-dimensional (3D) UAV trajectory design…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Xiao-Wei Tang , Shuowen Zhang , Changsheng You , Xin-Lin Huang , Rui Zhang

Recovering 3D structure and camera motion from images has been a long-standing focus of computer vision research and is known as Structure-from-Motion (SfM). Solutions to this problem are categorized into incremental and global approaches.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Linfei Pan , Dániel Baráth , Marc Pollefeys , Johannes L. Schönberger

Distance estimation plays an important role for path planning and collision avoidance of swarm UAVs. However, the lack of annotated data seriously hinders the related studies. In this work, we build and present a UAVDE dataset for UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jiafan Zhuang , Duan Yuan , Rihong Yan , Weixin Huang , Wenji Li , Zhun Fan

Structure-from-motion (SfM) largely relies on feature tracking. In image sequences, if disjointed tracks caused by objects moving in and out of the field of view, occasional occlusion, or image noise, are not handled well, corresponding SfM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Guofeng Zhang , Haomin Liu , Zilong Dong , Jiaya Jia , Tien-Tsin Wong , Hujun Bao

Image-based 3D reconstruction is one of the most important tasks in Computer Vision with many solutions proposed over the last few decades. The objective is to extract metric information i.e. the geometry of scene objects directly from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Qiao Chen , Charalambos Poullis

This paper addresses the problem of multi-object tracking in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) footage. It plays a critical role in various UAV applications, including traffic monitoring systems and real-time suspect tracking by the police.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 InPyo Song , Jangwon Lee

Efficient data collection methods play a major role in helping us better understand the Earth and its ecosystems. In many applications, the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for monitoring and remote sensing is rapidly gaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Felix Stache , Jonas Westheider , Federico Magistri , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

The consideration of mobile networks as a communication infrastructure for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) creates a new plethora of emerging services and opportunities. In particular, the availability of different mobile network operators…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-20 H. Hellaoui , A. Chelli , M. Bagaa , T. Taleb

Structure-from-Motion (SfM) is a fundamental technique for recovering camera poses and scene structure from multi-view imagery, serving as a critical upstream component for applications ranging from 3D reconstruction to modern neural scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jiankun Zhong , Zitong Zhan , Quankai Gao , Ziyu Chen , Haozhe Lou , Jiageng Mao , Ulrich Neumann , Chen Wang , Yue Wang

While initial approaches to Structure-from-Motion (SfM) revolved around both global and incremental methods, most recent applications rely on incremental systems to estimate camera poses due to their superior robustness. Though there has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Ayush Baid , John Lambert , Travis Driver , Akshay Krishnan , Hayk Stepanyan , Frank Dellaert

Unmanned aerial vehicle object detection (UAV-OD) has been widely used in various scenarios. However, most existing UAV-OD algorithms rely on manually designed components, which require extensive tuning. End-to-end models that do not depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Huaxiang Zhang , Kai Liu , Zhongxue Gan , Guo-Niu Zhu

Automatic reconstruction of 3D models from images using multi-view Structure-from-Motion methods has been one of the most fruitful outcomes of computer vision. These advances combined with the growing popularity of Micro Aerial Vehicles as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Shreyansh Daftry , Christof Hoppe , Horst Bischof

This paper proposes a novel non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-assisted orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS)-integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) network, which uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as air base stations to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Luping Xiang , Ke Xu , Jie Hu , Christos Masouros , Kun Yang

Inertial motion capture systems widely use low-cost IMUs to obtain the orientation of human body segments, but these sensors alone are unable to estimate link positions. Therefore, this research used a SLAM method in conjunction with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Mohammad Mahdi Azarbeik , Hamidreza Razavi , Kaveh Merat , Hassan Salarieh

Recently, UAVs endowed with high mobility, low cost, and remote control have promoted the development of UAV-assisted real-time video/image acquisition applications, which have a high demand for both transmission rate and image resolution.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Tang Xiao-Wei , Huang Xin-Lin Huang

This paper presents a neural incremental Structure-from-Motion (SfM) approach, Level-S$^2$fM, which estimates the camera poses and scene geometry from a set of uncalibrated images by learning coordinate MLPs for the implicit surfaces and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yuxi Xiao , Nan Xue , Tianfu Wu , Gui-Song Xia

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with flexible deployment contribute to enlarging the distance of information transmission to mobile users (MUs) in constrained environment. However, due to the high mobility of both UAVs and MUs, it is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jing Zhang , Sheng Gao , Xin Feng , Hongwei Yang , Geng Sun