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In this paper, we present a method for detecting objects of interest, including cars, humans, and fire, in aerial images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) usually during vegetation fires. To achieve this, we use artificial neural…

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We present a real-world multi-scenario unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) radio frequency (RF) dataset, namely DRFF-R2, which is collected using a dedicated acquisition platform under diverse operational conditions. All signals are acquired…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Haolin Zheng , Ning Gao , Zhenghang Zhu , Zhijun Huang , Shi Jin , Michail Matthaiou

This review provides a detailed analysis of the advancements in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) detection and classification systems from 2020 to today. It covers various detection methodologies such as radar, radio frequency, optical, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Vladislav Semenyuk , Ildar Kurmashev , Alberto Lupidi , Dmitriy Alyoshin , Liliya Kurmasheva , Alessandro Cantelli-Forti

With the advantage of high mobility, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used to fuel numerous important applications in computer vision, delivering more efficiency and convenience than surveillance cameras with fixed camera angle, scale…

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The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for a variety of commercial, civilian, and defense applications has increased many folds in recent years. While UAVs are expected to transform future air operations, there are instances where they…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Wahab Khawaja , Martins Ezuma , Vasilii Semkin , Fatih Erden , Ozgur Ozdemir , Ismail Guvenc

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being integrated into next-generation networks to enhance communication coverage and network capacity. However, the dynamic and mobile nature of UAVs poses significant security challenges,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Hao Zhang , Fuhui Zhou , Wei Wang , Qihui Wu , Chau Yuen

We present a methodology for automated real-time analysis of a radio image data stream with the goal to find transient sources. Contrary to previous works, the transients we are interested in occur on a time-scale where dispersion starts to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 David Ruhe , Mark Kuiack , Antonia Rowlinson , Ralph Wijers , Patrick Forré

Radio maps are emerging as a popular means to endow next-generation wireless communications with situational awareness. In particular, radio maps are expected to play a central role in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications since they…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-07 Daniel Romero , Raju Shrestha , Yves Teganya , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

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

To provide important prior knowledge for the DOA estimation of UAV emitters in future wireless networks, we present a complete DOA preprocessing system for inferring the number of emitters via massive MIMO receive array. Firstly, in order…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Yifan Li , Feng Shu , Jinsong Hu , Shihao Yan , Haiwei Song , Weiqiang Zhu , Da Tian , Yaoliang Song , Jiangzhou Wang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), have greatly revolutionized the process of gathering and analyzing data in diverse research domains, providing unmatched adaptability and effectiveness. This paper presents a thorough examination of Unmanned…

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Recognizing the motion of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) is crucial for enabling cooperative perception and control in autonomous aerial swarms. Yet, vision-based recognition models relying only on RGB data often fail to capture the complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Nengbo Zhang , Hann Woei Ho

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are cyber-physical systems whose attack surface spans networked avionics and on-board sensor fusion: a compromised GPS or battery module can mimic a benign mission segment and evade naive anomaly detectors.…

As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) become more accessible with a growing range of applications, the potential risk of UAV disruption increases. Recent development in deep learning allows vision-based counter-UAV systems to detect and track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Daniel Organisciak , Matthew Poyser , Aishah Alsehaim , Shanfeng Hu , Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Toby P. Breckon , Hubert P. H. Shum

The applications of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) increase rapidly in everyday life, thus detecting the UAVs and/or its pilot is a crucial task. Many UAVs adopt frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) technology to efficiently and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Batuhan Kaplan , İbrahim Kahraman , Ali Görçin , Hakan Ali Çırpan , Ali Rıza Ekti

Detecting fast-moving objects, such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), from event camera data is challenging due to the sparse, asynchronous nature of the input. Traditional Discrete Fourier Transforms (DFT) are effective at identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Michael Bezick , Majid Sahin

Nano-size unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) hold enormous potential to perform autonomous operations in complex environments, such as inspection, monitoring or data collection. Moreover, their small size allows safe operation close to humans…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Hanna Müller , Nicky Zimmerman , Tommaso Polonelli , Michele Magno , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss , Luca Benini

There has been a rapid growth in the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in various applications ranging from vital safety-of-life such as surveillance and reconnaissance at nuclear power plants to entertainment and hobby…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Alireza Famili , Angelos Stavrou , Haining Wang , Jung-Min , Park , Ryan Gerdes

In this paper, we focus on the potential use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for search and rescue (SAR) missions in GPS-denied indoor environments. We consider the problem of navigating a UAV to a wireless signal source, e.g., a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-03 Md Moin Uddin Chowdhury , Fatih Erden , Ismail Guvenc