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High-speed obstacle avoidance of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in cluttered environments is a significant challenge. Existing UAV planning and obstacle avoidance systems can only fly at moderate speeds or at high speeds over empty or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Minghao Lu , Xiyu Fan , Bowen Xu , Zexuan Yan , Rui Peng , Han Chen , Lixian Zhang , Peng Lu

This paper presents a review of techniques used for the detection and tracking of UAVs or drones. There are different techniques that depend on collecting measurements of the position, velocity, and image of the UAV and then using them in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Raed Abu Zitar , Mohammad Al-Betar , Mohamad Ryalat , Sofian Kassaymeh

Addressing airport traffic jams is one of the most crucial and challenging tasks in the remote sensing field, especially for the busiest airports. Several solutions have been employed to address this problem depending on the airplane…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 W. T. Alshaibani , Mustafa Helvaci , Ibraheem Shayea , Hafizal Mohamad

Commercial operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) would benefit from an onboard ability to sense and avoid (SAA) potential mid-air collision threats. In this paper we present a new approach for detection of aircraft below the horizon.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Jasmin James , Jason J. Ford , Timothy L. Molloy

Avoiding hybrid obstacles in unknown scenarios with an efficient flight strategy is a key challenge for unmanned aerial vehicle applications. In this paper, we introduce a technique to distinguish dynamic obstacles from static ones with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Han Chen , Peng Lu

Drone detection is a challenging object detection task where visibility conditions and quality of the images may be unfavorable, and detections might become difficult due to complex backgrounds, small visible objects, and hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ogulcan Eryuksel , Kamil Anil Ozfuttu , Fatih Cagatay Akyon , Kadir Sahin , Efe Buyukborekci , Devrim Cavusoglu , Sinan Altinuc

For drones, as safety-critical systems, there is an increasing need for onboard detect & avoid (DAA) technology i) to see, sense or detect conflicting traffic or imminent non-cooperative threats due to their high mobility with multiple…

The emerging drone aerial survey has the advantages of low cost, high efficiency, and flexible use. However, UAVs are often equipped with cheap POS systems and non-measurement cameras, and their flight attitudes are easily affected. How to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Jiageng Zhong , Ming Li , Jiangying Qin , Hanqi Zhang

This paper discusses the challenges of detecting and categorizing small drones with radar automatic target recognition (ATR) technology. The authors suggest integrating ATR capabilities into drone detection radar systems to improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Jiangkun Gong , Jun Yan , Deyong Kong , Deren Li

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

As airborne vehicles are becoming more autonomous and ubiquitous, it has become vital to develop the capability to detect the objects in their surroundings. This paper attempts to address the problem of drones detection from other flying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Muhammad Waseem Ashraf , Waqas Sultani , Mubarak Shah

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

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

While Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in several missions, their inability of reliable and consistent autonomous landing poses a major setback for deploying such systems truly autonomously. In this paper we present…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Michalis Piponidis , Panayiotis Aristodemou , Theocharis Theocharides

This paper explores the process of designing an automatic multi-sensor drone detection system. Besides the common video and audio sensors, the system also includes a thermal infrared camera, which is shown to be a feasible solution to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Fredrik Svanstrom , Cristofer Englund , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez

Safe UAV navigation is challenging due to the complex environment structures, dynamic obstacles, and uncertainties from measurement noises and unpredictable moving obstacle behaviors. Although plenty of recent works achieve safe navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Zhefan Xu , Di Deng , Yiping Dong , Kenji Shimada

The localization of Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in deep tunnels is extremely challenging due to their inaccessibility and hazardous environment. Conventional outdoor localization techniques (such as using GPS) and indoor localization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Vishal Choudhary , Shashi Kant Gupta , Shaohui Foong , Hock Beng Lim

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) spectral remote sensing technology is widely used in water quality monitoring. However, in dynamic environments, varying illumination conditions, such as shadows and specular reflection (sun glint), can cause…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yuanshuang Fu , Qianyao Wang , Qihao Wang , Bonan Zhang , Jiaxin Zhao , Yiming Cao , Zhijun Li

With technological advancement, drone has emerged as unmanned aerial vehicle that can be controlled by humans to fly or reach a destination. This may be autonomous as well, where the drone itself is intelligent enough to find a shortest…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Prithwish Jana , Debasish Jana

Current state of the art in the field of UAV activation relies solely on human operators for the design and adaptation of the drones' flying routes. Furthermore, this is being done today on an individual level (one vehicle per operators),…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Yaniv Altshuler , Alex Pentland , Shlomo Bekhor , Yoram Shiftan , Alfred Bruckstein