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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

Detecting small drones, often indistinguishable from birds, is crucial for modern surveillance. This work introduces a drone detection methodology built upon the medium-sized YOLOv11 object detection model. To enhance its performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rayson Laroca , Marcelo dos Santos , David Menotti

We propose an approach to detect flying objects such as UAVs and aircrafts when they occupy a small portion of the field of view, possibly moving against complex backgrounds, and are filmed by a camera that itself moves. Solving such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Artem Rozantsev , Vincent Lepetit , Pascal Fua

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with high-resolution sensors enable extensive data collection from previously inaccessible areas at a remarkable spatio-temporal scale, promising to revolutionize fields such as precision agriculture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Harnaik Dhami

The rapid proliferation of drones requires balancing innovation with regulation. To address security and privacy concerns, techniques for drone detection have attracted significant attention.Passive solutions, such as frame camera-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Kuan Dai , Hongxin Zhang , Sheng Zhong , Yi Zhou

With the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy, UAVs have become crucial for measurement and tracking in patrol systems. However, in GNSS-denied areas, satellite-based localization methods are prone to failure. This paper presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Tao Liu , Kan Ren , Qian Chen

Applications of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in logistics, agricultural automation, urban management, and emergency response are highly dependent on oriented object detection (OOD) to enhance visual perception. Although existing datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Kai Ye , Haidi Tang , Bowen Liu , Pingyang Dai , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

As drone use has become more widespread, there is a critical need to ensure safety and security. A key element of this is robust and accurate drone detection and localization. While cameras and other optical sensors like LiDAR are commonly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yuan Fang , Fangzhan Shi , Xijia Wei , Qingchao Chen , Kevin Chetty , Simon Julier

In the last twenty years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have garnered growing interest due to their expanding applications in both military and civilian domains. Detecting non-cooperative aerial vehicles with efficiency and estimating…

Object detection using aerial drone imagery has received a great deal of attention in recent years. While visible light images are adequate for detecting objects in most scenarios, thermal cameras can extend the capabilities of object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Lizhi Yang , Ruhang Ma , Avideh Zakhor

The vision of unmanned aerial vehicles is very significant for UAV-related applications such as search and rescue, landing on a moving platform, etc. In this work, we have developed an integrated system for the UAV landing on the moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Kangcheng Liu

Open-set detection is crucial for robust UAV autonomy in air-to-air object detection under real-world conditions. Traditional closed-set detectors degrade significantly under domain shifts and flight data corruption, posing risks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Spyridon Loukovitis , Anastasios Arsenos , Vasileios Karampinis , Athanasios Voulodimos

Detecting objects from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is often hindered by a large number of small objects, resulting in low detection accuracy. To address this issue, mainstream approaches typically utilize multi-stage inferences. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Fan Liu , Liang Yao , Chuanyi Zhang , Ting Wu , Xinlei Zhang , Xiruo Jiang , Jun Zhou

Autonomous tracking of flying aerial objects has important civilian and defense applications, ranging from search and rescue to counter-unmanned aerial systems (counter-UAS). Ground based tracking requires setting up infrastructure, could…

Small target detection in UAV imagery faces significant challenges such as scale variations, dense distribution, and the dominance of small targets. Existing algorithms rely on manually designed components, and general-purpose detectors are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yuankai Chen , Kai Lin , Qihong Wu , Xinxuan Yang , Jiashuo Lai , Ruoen Chen , Haonan Shi , Minfan He , Meihua Wang

Drones or general Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), endowed with computer vision function by on-board cameras and embedded systems, have become popular in a wide range of applications. However, real-time scene parsing through object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Pengyi Zhang , Yunxin Zhong , Xiaoqiong Li

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are gaining popularity in civil and military applications. However, uncontrolled access to restricted areas threatens privacy and security. Thus, prevention and detection of UAVs are pivotal to guarantee…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jakub Mandula , Jonas Kühne , Luca Pascarella , Michele Magno

An object detection pipeline comprises a camera that captures the scene and an object detector that processes these images. The quality of the images directly affects the performance of the object detector. Many works nowadays focus either…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Leon Amadeus Varga , Sebastian Koch , Andreas Zell

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery presents significant challenges. Issues such as densely packed small objects, scale variations, and occlusion are commonplace. This paper introduces RT-DETR++, which enhances the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yuan Shufang

In image processing, it is essential to detect and track air targets, especially UAVs. In this paper, we detect the flying drone using a fisheye camera. In the field of diagnosis and classification of objects, there are always many problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Fatemeh Mahdavi , Roozbeh Rajabi