English
Related papers

Related papers: Keyfilter-Aware Real-Time UAV Object Tracking

200 papers

Unlike deep learning which requires large training datasets, correlation filter-based trackers like Kernelized Correlation Filter (KCF) uses implicit properties of tracked images (circulant matrices) for training in real-time. Despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Srishti Yadav

Extensive use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is expected to raise privacy and security concerns among individuals and communities. In this context, the detection and localization of UAVs will be critical for maintaining safe and secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-06 Udita Bhattacherjee , Ender Ozturk , Ozgur Ozdemir , Ismail Guvenc , Mihail L. Sichitiu , Huaiyu Dai

In this paper a vision-based system for detection, motion tracking and following of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with other UAV (follower) is presented. For detection of an airborne UAV we apply a convolutional neural network YOLO trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Antonella Barisic , Marko Car , Stjepan Bogdan

This paper addresses the problem of multi-object tracking in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) footage. It plays a critical role in various UAV applications, including traffic monitoring systems and real-time suspect tracking by the police.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 InPyo Song , Jangwon Lee

Temporal contexts among consecutive frames are far from being fully utilized in existing visual trackers. In this work, we present TCTrack, a comprehensive framework to fully exploit temporal contexts for aerial tracking. The temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ziang Cao , Ziyuan Huang , Liang Pan , Shiwei Zhang , Ziwei Liu , Changhong Fu

In recent years, several progressive works promote the development of aerial tracking. One of the representative works is our previous work Fast-tracker which is applicable to various challenging tracking scenarios. However, it suffers from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Neng Pan , Ruibin Zhang , Tiankai Yang , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

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

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

Maintaining high efficiency and high precision are two fundamental challenges in UAV tracking due to the constraints of computing resources, battery capacity, and UAV maximum load. Discriminative correlation filters (DCF)-based trackers can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Dan Zeng , Mingliang Zou , Xucheng Wang , Shuiwang Li

The core component of most modern trackers is a discriminative classifier, tasked with distinguishing between the target and the surrounding environment. To cope with natural image changes, this classifier is typically trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-06 João F. Henriques , Rui Caseiro , Pedro Martins , Jorge Batista

Drones have become essential tools in a wide range of industries, including agriculture, surveying, and transportation. However, tracking unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in challenging environments, such cluttered or GNSS-denied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Iacopo Catalano , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

UAV tracking can be widely applied in scenarios such as disaster rescue, environmental monitoring, and logistics transportation. However, existing UAV tracking methods predominantly emphasize speed and lack exploration in semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xinyu Zhou , Tongxin Pan , Lingyi Hong , Pinxue Guo , Haijing Guo , Zhaoyu Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Wenqiang Zhang

This paper presents a novel reinforcement learning framework for trajectory tracking of unmanned aerial vehicles in cluttered environments using a dual-agent architecture. Traditional optimization methods for trajectory tracking face…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Shaswat Garg , Houman Masnavi , Baris Fidan , Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi

Object tracking is challenging as target objects often undergo drastic appearance changes over time. Recently, adaptive correlation filters have been successfully applied to object tracking. However, tracking algorithms relying on highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Chao Ma , Jia-Bin Huang , Xiaokang Yang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Correlation filtering based tracking model has received lots of attention and achieved great success in real-time tracking, however, the lost function in current correlation filtering paradigm could not reliably response to the appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Yao Sui , Ziming Zhang , Guanghui Wang , Yafei Tang , Li Zhang

A commonly encountered problem is the tracking of a physical object, like a maneuvering ship, aircraft, land vehicle, spacecraft or animate creature carrying a wireless device. The sensor data is often limited and inaccurate observations of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Kevin Judd

In unseen and complex outdoor environments, collision avoidance navigation for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms presents a challenging problem. It requires UAVs to navigate through various obstacles and complex backgrounds. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jiafan Zhuang , Gaofei Han , Zihao Xia , Boxi Wang , Wenji Li , Dongliang Wang , Zhifeng Hao , Ruichu Cai , Zhun Fan

This paper presents a visual tracking system that is capable or running real time on-board a small UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). The tracking system is computationally efficient and invariant to lighting changes and rotation of the object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-05-28 Ashraf Qadir , William Semke , Jeremiah Neubert

Vision-based target tracking is crucial for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to perform tasks such as inspection, monitoring, and surveillance. However, real-time tracking in complex maritime environments is challenging due to dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Muhayy Ud Din , Ahsan B. Bakht , Waseem Akram , Yihao Dong , Lakmal Seneviratne , Irfan Hussain

In most modern object detection pipelines, the detection proposals are processed independently given the feature map. Therefore, they overlook the underlying relationships between objects and the surrounding background, which could have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Botao Ren , Botian Xu , Xue Yang , Yifan Pu , Jingyi Wang , Zhidong Deng