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There is growing interest in object detection in advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous robots and vehicles. To enable such innovative systems, we need faster object detection. In this work, we investigate the trade-off between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Ting-Wu Chin , Chia-Lin Yu , Matthew Halpern , Hasan Genc , Shiao-Li Tsao , Vijay Janapa Reddi

Precisely detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) plays a critical role in UAV defense systems. Deep learning is widely adopted for UAV object detection whereas researches on this topic are limited by the amount of dataset and small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Chen Rui , Guo Youwei , Zheng Huafei , Jiang Hongyu

An onboard target detection, tracking and avoidance system has been developed in this paper, for low-cost UAV flight controllers using AI-Based approaches. The aim of the proposed system is that an ally UAV can either avoid or track an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Vinorth Varatharasan , Alice Shuang Shuang Rao , Eric Toutounji , Ju-Hyeon Hong , Hyo-Sang Shin

To determine the 3D orientation and 3D location of objects in the surroundings of a camera mounted on a robot or mobile device, we developed two powerful algorithms in object detection and temporal tracking that are combined seamlessly for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-06 David Joseph Tan , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Drones, or general UAVs, equipped with a single camera have been widely deployed to a broad range of applications, such as aerial photography, fast goods delivery and most importantly, surveillance. Despite the great progress achieved in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Haotian Zhang , Gaoang Wang , Zhichao Lei , Jenq-Neng Hwang

We propose a novel approach to synthesizing images that are effective for training object detectors. Starting from a small set of real images, our algorithm estimates the rendering parameters required to synthesize similar images given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Artem Rozantsev , Vincent Lepetit , Pascal Fua

Real-time efficient perception is critical for autonomous navigation and city scale sensing. Orthogonal to architectural improvements, streaming perception approaches have exploited adaptive sampling improving real-time detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Anurag Ghosh , N. Dinesh Reddy , Christoph Mertz , Srinivasa G. Narasimhan

Owing to effective and flexible data acquisition, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has recently become a hotspot across the fields of computer vision (CV) and remote sensing (RS). Inspired by recent success of deep learning (DL), many advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xin Wu , Wei Li , Danfeng Hong , Ran Tao , Qian Du

The ability to detect pedestrians and other moving objects is crucial for an autonomous vehicle. This must be done in real-time with minimum system overhead. This paper discusses the implementation of a surround view system to identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Iljoo Baek , Albert Davies , Geng Yan , Ragunathan , Rajkumar

Searching for small objects in large images is a task that is both challenging for current deep learning systems and important in numerous real-world applications, such as remote sensing and medical imaging. Thorough scanning of very large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Nathan Drenkow , Philippe Burlina , Neil Fendley , Onyekachi Odoemene , Jared Markowitz

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are one of the most revolutionary inventions of 21st century. At the core of a UAV lies the central processing system that uses wireless signals to control their movement. The most popular UAVs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Mohit Arora , Pratyush Shukla , Shivali Chopra

In this work, we present a fast target detection framework for real-world robotics applications. Considering that an intelligent agent attends to a task-specific object target during execution, our goal is to detect the object efficiently.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Went Luan , Yezhou Yang , Cornelia Fermuller , John S. Baras

Drowning is an omnipresent risk associated with any activity on or in the water, and rescuing a drowning person is particularly challenging because of the time pressure, making a short response time important. Further complicating water…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sascha Emanuel Zell , Toni Schneidereit , Armin Fügenschuh , Michael Breuß

Deep vision models are now mature enough to be integrated in industrial and possibly critical applications such as autonomous navigation. Yet, data collection and labeling to train such models requires too much efforts and costs for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Estelle Chigot , Dennis G. Wilson , Meriem Ghrib , Fabrice Jimenez , Thomas Oberlin

We introduce a novel framework to track multiple objects in overhead camera videos for airport checkpoint security scenarios where targets correspond to passengers and their baggage items. We propose a Self-Supervised Learning (SSL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Abubakar Siddique , Henry Medeiros

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…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Hartmut Surmann , Artur Leinweber , Gerhard Senkowski , Julien Meine , Dominik Slomma

Autonomous driving is a multi-task problem requiring a deep understanding of the visual environment. End-to-end autonomous systems have attracted increasing interest as a method of learning to drive without exhaustively programming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Alexander Makrigiorgos , Ali Shafti , Alex Harston , Julien Gerard , A. Aldo Faisal

Eye image segmentation is a critical step in eye tracking that has great influence over the final gaze estimate. Segmentation models trained using supervised machine learning can excel at this task, their effectiveness is determined by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Viet Dung Nguyen , Reynold Bailey , Gabriel J. Diaz , Chengyi Ma , Alexander Fix , Alexander Ororbia

There is an increasing demand for software that automatically detects and classifies mobile targets such as airplanes, cars, and ships in satellite imagery. Applications of such automated target recognition (ATR) software include economic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Mark Pritt

Search and rescue operations require unmanned aerial vehicles to both traverse unknown unstructured environments at high speed and track targets once detected. Achieving both capabilities under degraded sensing and without global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Alessandro Saviolo , Jeffrey Mao , Giuseppe Loianno