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To ensure flight safety of aircraft structures, it is necessary to have regular maintenance using visual and nondestructive inspection (NDI) methods. In this paper, we propose an automatic image-based aircraft defect detection using Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Touba Malekzadeh , Milad Abdollahzadeh , Hossein Nejati , Ngai-Man Cheung

This paper presents a deep learning approach to aid dead-reckoning (DR) navigation using a limited sensor suite. A Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) was developed to predict the relative horizontal velocities of an Autonomous Underwater…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Ivar Bjørgo Saksvik , Alex Alcocer , Vahid Hassani

This letter is concerned with power control for a ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system incorporated with deep neural network (DNN) based channel estimation. Particularly, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Peng Yang , Xing Xi , Tony Q. S. Quek , Xianbin Cao , Jingxuan Chen

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) must reliably detect thin obstacles such as wires, poles, and branches to navigate safely in real-world environments. These structures remain difficult to perceive because they occupy few pixels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Negar Fathi

Efficient and precise location of emission sources in an urbanized environment is very important in electronic warfare. Therefore, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used for such tasks. In this paper, we present the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Jan M. Kelner

This paper proposes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based distributed sensing framework that uses frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms to detect the position of a ground target under half-duplex operation. The area of interest,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-22 Xavier A. Flores Cabezas , Diana P. Moya Osorio , Markku Juntti

Currently there is great interest in the utility of deep neural networks (DNNs) for the physical layer of radio frequency (RF) communications. In this manuscript, we describe a custom DNN specially designed to solve problems in the RF…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Brian Shevitski , Yijing Watkins , Nicole Man , Michael Girard

Radio-Frequency (RF) imaging concerns the digital recreation of the surfaces of scene objects based on the scattered field at distributed receivers. To solve this difficult inverse scattering problems, data-driven methods are often employed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , Panagiotis Gavriilidis , Gabriele Gradoni , George C. Alexandropoulos

Deep learning-based models, such as recurrent neural networks (RNNs), have been applied to various sequence learning tasks with great success. Following this, these models are increasingly replacing classic approaches in object tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Stefan Becker , Ronny Hug , Wolfgang Hübner , Michael Arens , Brendan T. Morris

One of the main issues for underwater robots navigation is their accurate positioning, which heavily depends on the orientation estimation phase. The systems employed to this scope are affected by different noise typologies, mainly related…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Paolo Russo , Fabiana Di Ciaccio , Salvatore Troisi

Integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or "drones" into the civil aviation airspace is a problem of increasing interest in the aviation community, as testified by many initiatives developed worldwide. Many traditional surveillance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-26 Giacinto Gelli , Ivan Iudice , Domenico Pascarella

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) rely on satellite systems for stable positioning. However, due to limited satellite coverage or communication disruptions, UAVs may lose signals from satellite-based positioning systems. In such situations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Ming Dai , Enhui Zheng , Zhenhua Feng , Jiedong Zhuang , Wankou Yang

Pervasive and high-accuracy positioning has become increasingly important as a fundamental enabler for intelligent connected devices in mobile networks. Nevertheless, current wireless networks heavily rely on pure model-driven techniques to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Shengheng Liu , Zihuan Mao , Xingkang Li , Mengguan Pan , Peng Liu , Yongming Huang , Xiaohu You

Research in the field of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has significantly advanced in recent years, mainly due to their relevance in a large variety of commercial, industrial, and military applications. However, UAV navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Akkas Haque , Ahmed Elsaharti , Tarek Elderini , Mohamed Atef Elsaharty , Jeremiah Neubert

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly essential in various fields such as surveillance, reconnaissance, and telecommunications. This study aims to develop a learning algorithm for the path planning of UAV wireless communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Joseanne Viana , Boris Galkin , Lester Ho , Holger Claussen

Network-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications is a common solution to achieve high-rate image transmission. The broadcast nature of these wireless networks makes this communication vulnerable to eavesdropping. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Behrooz Khadem , Salar Mohebalizadeh

The proliferation of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has raised significant safety concerns due to their potential misuse in activities such as espionage, smuggling, and infrastructure disruption. This paper addresses the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Stefan Glüge , Matthias Nyfeler , Ahmad Aghaebrahimian , Nicola Ramagnano , Christof Schüpbach

It is expected that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will play a vital role in future communication systems. Optimum positioning of UAVs, serving as base stations, can be done through extensive field measurements or ray tracing simulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ibrahim Shoer , Bahadir K. Gunturk , Hasan F. Ates , Tuncer Baykas

The ubiquity of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones is posing both security and safety risks to the public as UAVs are now used for cybercrimes. To mitigate these risks, it is important to have a system that can detect or identify the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Olusiji O Medaiyese , Martins Ezuma , Adrian P Lauf , Ayodeji A Adeniran

We propose a trainable-by-parts surrogate model for solving forward and inverse parameterized nonlinear partial differential equations. Like several other surrogate and operator learning models, the proposed approach employs an encoder to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yifei Zong , Alexandre M. Tartakovsky