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Different from visible cameras which record intensity images frame by frame, the biologically inspired event camera produces a stream of asynchronous and sparse events with much lower latency. In practice, visible cameras can better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Xiao Wang , Jianing Li , Lin Zhu , Zhipeng Zhang , Zhe Chen , Xin Li , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Feng Wu

Developing robust drone detection systems is often constrained by the limited availability of large-scale annotated training data and the high costs associated with real-world data collection. However, leveraging synthetic data generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Tamara R. Lenhard , Andreas Weinmann , Kai Franke , Tobias Koch

Deep learning-based Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) currently relies on off-the-shelf detectors for tracking-by-detection.This results in deep models that are detector biased and evaluations that are detector influenced. To resolve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 ShiJie Sun , Naveed Akhtar , XiangYu Song , HuanSheng Song , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah

Video-based sensing from aerial drones, especially small multirotor drones, can provide rich data for numerous applications, including traffic analysis (computing traffic flow volumes), precision agriculture (periodically evaluating plant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Favyen Bastani , Songtao He , Ziwen Jiang , Osbert Bastani , Sam Madden

The recent trend in 2D multiple object tracking (MOT) is jointly solving detection and tracking, where object detection and appearance feature (or motion) are learned simultaneously. Despite competitive performance, in crowded scenes, joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Weihong Ren , Denglu Wu , Hui Cao , Xi'ai Chen , Zhi Han , Honghai Liu

Object detection is one of the most important and challenging branches of computer vision, which has been widely applied in peoples life, such as monitoring security, autonomous driving and so on, with the purpose of locating instances of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Licheng Jiao , Fan Zhang , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Lingling Li , Zhixi Feng , Rong Qu

To detect unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in real-time, computer vision and deep learning approaches are evolving research areas. Interest in this problem has grown due to concerns regarding the possible hazards and misuse of employing UAVs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Adnan Munir , Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui , Saeed Anwar

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in UAV-based video is challenging due to variations in viewpoint, low resolution, and the presence of small objects. While other research on MOT dedicated to aerial videos primarily focuses on the academic aspect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Nhat-Tan Do , Nhi Ngoc-Yen Nguyen , Dieu-Phuong Nguyen , Trong-Hop Do

Despite recent advances, object detection in aerial images is still a challenging task. Specific problems in aerial images makes the detection problem harder, such as small objects, densely packed objects, objects in different sizes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Onur Can Koyun , Reyhan Kevser Keser , İbrahim Batuhan Akkaya , Behçet Uğur Töreyin

Detecting and Counting people in a human crowd from a moving drone present challenging problems that arisefrom the constant changing in the image perspective andcamera angle. In this paper, we test two different state-of-the-art approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Javier Gonzalez-Trejo , Diego Mercado-Ravell

Drones have become prevalent robotic platforms with diverse applications, showing significant potential in Embodied Artificial Intelligence (Embodied AI). Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) enables drones to locate objects based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Zhichao Sun , Yepeng Liu , Zhiling Su , Huachao Zhu , Yuliang Gu , Yuda Zou , Zelong Liu , Gui-Song Xia , Bo Du , Yongchao Xu

The past few years have seen an increased interest in aerial image object detection due to its critical value to large-scale geo-scientific research like environmental studies, urban planning, and intelligence monitoring. However, the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Liya Wang , Alex Tien

Occlusion is one of the most significant challenges encountered by object detectors and trackers. While both object detection and tracking has received a lot of attention in the past, most existing methods in this domain do not target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Satyaki Chakraborty , Martial Hebert

Point tracking aims to follow visual points through complex motion, occlusion, and viewpoint changes, and has advanced rapidly with modern foundation models. Yet progress toward general point tracking remains constrained by limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Weiguang Zhao , Haoran Xu , Xingyu Miao , Qin Zhao , Rui Zhang , Kaizhu Huang , Ning Gao , Peizhou Cao , Mingze Sun , Mulin Yu , Tao Lu , Linning Xu , Junting Dong , Jiangmiao Pang

Object detection and counting are related but challenging problems, especially for drone based scenes with small objects and cluttered background. In this paper, we propose a new Guided Attention Network (GANet) to deal with both object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Yuanqiang Cai , Dawei Du , Libo Zhang , Longyin Wen , Weiqiang Wang , Yanjun Wu , Siwei Lyu

With the proliferation of low altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), visual multi-object tracking is becoming a critical security technology, demanding significant robustness even in complex environmental conditions. However, tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Tianyang Xu , Jinjie Gu , Xuefeng Zhu , XiaoJun Wu , Josef Kittler

Accurate detection and tracking of objects is vital for effective video understanding. In previous work, the two tasks have been combined in a way that tracking is based heavily on detection, but the detection benefits marginally from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Zheng Zhang , Dazhi Cheng , Xizhou Zhu , Stephen Lin , Jifeng Dai

Accurate drone detection is strongly desired in drone collision avoidance, drone defense and autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) self-landing. With the recent emergence of the Vision Transformer (ViT), this critical task is reassessed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Junyang Zhang

Object detection and object tracking are usually treated as two separate processes. Significant progress has been made for object detection in 2D images using deep learning networks. The usual tracking-by-detection pipeline for object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Chenge Li , Gregory Dobler , Xin Feng , Yao Wang

Visual tracking has seen remarkable advancements, largely driven by the availability of large-scale training datasets that have enabled the development of highly accurate and robust algorithms. While significant progress has been made in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Xiaoyu Guo , Pengzhi Zhong , Hao Zhang , Defeng Huang , Huikai Shao , Qijun Zhao , Shuiwang Li