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Automotive radar systems have evolved to provide not only range, azimuth and Doppler velocity, but also elevation data. This additional dimension allows for the representation of 4D radar as a 3D point cloud. As a result, existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Alexander Musiat , Laurenz Reichardt , Michael Schulze , Oliver Wasenmüller

Limited by the performance factor, it is arduous to recognize target object and locate it in Augmented Reality (AR) scenes on low-end mobile devices, especially which using monocular cameras. In this paper, we proposed an algorithm which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Shiyu Fan

Object tracking has been broadly applied in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tasks in recent years. However, existing algorithms still face difficulties such as partial occlusion, clutter background, and other challenging visual factors.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Yujie He , Changhong Fu , Fuling Lin , Yiming Li , Peng Lu

Dynamic obstacle avoidance is one crucial component for compliant navigation in crowded environments. In this paper we present a system for accurate and reliable detection and tracking of dynamic objects using noisy point cloud data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Thomas Eppenberger , Gianluca Cesari , Marcin Dymczyk , Roland Siegwart , Renaud Dubé

Accurate detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is critical for surveillance, security, and airspace monitoring. However, existing datasets remain limited in scale, resolution, and the ability to capture objects across extreme size…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yu-Hsi Chen

Achieving a balance between computational efficiency and detection accuracy in the realm of rotated bounding box object detection within aerial imagery is a significant challenge. While prior research has aimed at creating lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Zhifei Shi , Zongyao Yin , Sheng Chang , Xiao Yi , Xianchuan Yu

Urban-oriented autonomous vehicles require a reliable perception technology to tackle the high amount of uncertainties. The recently introduced compact 3D LIDAR sensor offers a surround spatial information that can be exploited to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Achim Kampker , Mohsen Sefati , Arya Abdul Rachman , Kai Kreisköther , Pascual Campoy

Multi-object tracking (MOT) has important applications in monitoring, logistics, and other fields. This paper develops a real-time multi-object tracking and prediction system in rugged environments. A 3D object detection algorithm based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Shixing Huang , Zhihao Wang , Junyuan Ouyang , Haoyao Chen

3D object detectors usually rely on hand-crafted proxies, e.g., anchors or centers, and translate well-studied 2D frameworks to 3D. Thus, sparse voxel features need to be densified and processed by dense prediction heads, which inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yukang Chen , Jianhui Liu , Xiangyu Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi , Jiaya Jia

In this paper we propose a novel approach for detecting and tracking objects in videos with variable background i.e. videos captured by moving cameras without any additional sensor. In a video captured by a moving camera, both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Kumar S. Ray , Vijayan K. Asari , Soma Chakraborty

In recent years, the satellite videos have been captured by a moving satellite platform. In contrast to consumer, movie, and common surveillance videos, satellite video can record the snapshot of the city-scale scene. In a broad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Wei Ao , Yanwei Fu , Feng Xu

Non-repetitive solid-state LiDAR scanning leads to an extremely sparse measurement regime for detecting airborne UAVs: a small quadrotor at 10-25 m typically produces only 1-2 returns per scan, which is far below the point densities assumed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Nivand Khosravi , Rodrigo Ventura , Meysam Basiri

This paper proposes a novel approach to create an automated visual surveillance system which is very efficient in detecting and tracking moving objects in a video captured by moving camera without any apriori information about the captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Kumar S. Ray , Soma Chakraborty

This paper proposes a multi-sensor based approach to detect, track, and localize a quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Specifically, a pipeline is developed to process monocular RGB and thermal video (captured from a fixed platform)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Zhibo Zhang , Chen Zeng , Maulikkumar Dhameliya , Souma Chowdhury , Rahul Rai

Detection of moving objects such as vehicles in videos acquired from an airborne camera is very useful for video analytics applications. Using fast low power algorithms for onboard moving object detection would also provide region of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Noor Al-Shakarji , Filiz Bunyak , Hadi Aliakbarpour , Guna Seetharaman , Kannappan Palaniappan

Obstacle detection is one of the basic tasks of a robot movement in an unknown environment. The use of a LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) sensor allows one to obtain a point cloud in the vicinity of the sensor. After processing this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Lukas Kratochvila

In dynamic environments, performance of visual SLAM techniques can be impaired by visual features taken from moving objects. One solution is to identify those objects so that their visual features can be removed for localization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Jonathan Vincent , Mathieu Labbé , Jean-Samuel Lauzon , François Grondin , Pier-Marc Comtois-Rivet , François Michaud

Detecting small obstacles on the road is critical for autonomous driving. In this paper, we present a method to reliably detect such obstacles through a multi-modal framework of sparse LiDAR(VLP-16) and Monocular vision. LiDAR is employed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Aasheesh Singh , Aditya Kamireddypalli , Vineet Gandhi , K Madhava Krishna

Head detection and tracking are essential for downstream tasks, but current methods often require large computational budgets, which increase latencies and ties up resources (e.g., processors, memory, and bandwidth). To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jisu Kim , Alex Mattingly , Eung-Joo Lee , Benjamin S. Riggan

Visual detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a critical task in surveillance systems due to their small physical size and environmental challenges. Although deep learning models have achieved significant progress, deploying them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Amir Zamani , Zeinab Abedini