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Runway and taxiway pavements are exposed to high stress during their projected lifetime, which inevitably leads to a decrease in their condition over time. To make sure airport pavement condition ensure uninterrupted and resilient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Pablo Alonso , Jon Ander Iñiguez de Gordoa , Juan Diego Ortega , Sara García , Francisco Javier Iriarte , Marcos Nieto

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a pivotal role in ensuring seamless connectivity for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, particularly in scenarios where conventional terrestrial networks are constrained or temporarily unavailable.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Xiao Fan , Wenkun Wen , Peiran Wu , Junhui Zhao , Minghua Xia

In this paper, we report the world's first infrastructure-guided communication-enhanced road crack detection pipeline that is effective and implementable on passenger vehicles. We first design a customized communication protocol to transmit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Haosong Xiao , Yamini Ramesh , Rishabh Shukla , Swarat Sarkar , Chaozhe R. He

The present work deals with a new passive system for real-time detection, classification and direction of arrival estimator of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The proposed system composed of a very low cost hardware components, comprises…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-01 Konstantinos Polyzos , Evangelos Dermatas

Research in Anti-UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) tracking has explored various modalities, including RGB, TIR, and RGB-T fusion. However, a unified framework for cross-modal collaboration is still lacking. Existing approaches have primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Qionglin Ren , Dawei Zhang , Chunxu Tian , Dan Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play an increasingly critical role in Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions such as border patrolling and criminal detection, thanks to their ability to access remote areas and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Niloufar Mehrabi , Sayed Pedram Haeri Boroujeni , Jenna Hofseth , Abolfazl Razi , Long Cheng , Manveen Kaur , James Martin , Rahul Amin

Smart traffic engineering and intelligent transportation services are in increasing demand from governmental authorities to optimize traffic performance and thus reduce energy costs, increase the drivers' safety and comfort, ensure traffic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Bilel Benjdira , Anis Koubaa , Ahmad Taher Azar , Zahid Khan , Adel Ammar , Wadii Boulila

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are considered cutting-edge technology with highly cost-effective and flexible usage scenarios. Although many papers have reviewed the application of UAVs in agriculture, the review of the application for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Weijie Kuang , Hann Woei Ho , Ye Zhou , Shahrel Azmin Suandi , Farzad Ismail

Most recent UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) detectors focus primarily on general challenge such as uneven distribution and occlusion. However, the neglect of scale challenges, which encompass scale variation and small objects, continues to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Xuexue Li

This work investigates the application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology for measurement of rock fragmentation without placement of scale objects in the scene to determine image scale. Commonly practiced image-based rock…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Thomas Bamford , Kamran Esmaeili , Angela P. Schoellig

Object detection in aerial images is an important task in environmental, economic, and infrastructure-related tasks. One of the most prominent applications is the detection of vehicles, for which deep learning approaches are increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Immanuel Weber , Jens Bongartz , Ribana Roscher

This work introduces a new preprocessing step for object detection applicable to UAV bird's eye view imagery, which we call Adaptive Resizing. By design, it helps alleviate the challenges coming with the vast variances in objects' scales,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Martin Messmer , Benjamin Kiefer , Andreas Zell

Crack detection plays a key role in automated pavement inspection. Although a large number of algorithms have been developed in recent years to further boost performance, there are still remaining challenges in practice, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Zhening Huang , Weiwei Chen , Abir Al-Tabbaa , Ioannis Brilakis

The imminent commercialization of UAM requires stable, AI-based maintenance systems to ensure safety for both passengers and pedestrians. This paper presents a methodology for non-destructively detecting cracks in UAM propellers using drone…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Juho Lee , Donghyun Yoon , Gumoon Jeong , Hyeoncheol Kim

Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to support a wide variety of missions, such as remote surveillance, vehicle tracking, and object detection. For problems involving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Suleyman Melih Portakal , Ahmet Alp Kindiroglu , Mahiye Uluyagmur Ozturk

Illumination inconsistency is a fundamental challenge in multi-view 3D reconstruction. Variations in sunlight direction, cloud cover, and shadows break the constant-lighting assumption underlying both classical multi-view stereo (MVS) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kang Du , Xue Liao , Junpeng Xia , Chaozheng Guo , Yi Gu , Yirui Guan , Duotun Wang , Sheng Huang , Zeyu Wang

A network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provides distributed coverage, reconfigurability, and maneuverability in performing complex cooperative tasks. However, it relies on wireless communications that can be susceptible to cyber…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Rayan Bahrami , Hamidreza Jafarnejadsani

In this paper, we develop a functional Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), capable of tracking an object using a Machine Learning-like vision system called Haar feature-based cascade classifier. The image processing is made on-board with a high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Luis Arreola , Gesem Gudiño , Gerardo Flores

Automatically detecting or segmenting cracks in images can help in reducing the cost of maintenance or operations. Detecting, measuring and quantifying cracks for distress analysis in challenging background scenarios is a difficult task as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Ram Krishna Pandey , Akshit Achara

To address the challenges of low detection accuracy and high false positive rates of transmission lines in UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) images, we explore the linear features and spatial distribution. We introduce an enhanced stochastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Wei Song , Pei Li , Man Wang