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Drones have proven to be useful in many industry segments such as security and surveillance, where e.g. on-board real-time object tracking is a necessity for autonomous flying guards. Tracking and following suspicious objects is therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Maarten Vandersteegen , Kristof Vanbeeck , Toon goedeme

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) can pose a major risk for aviation safety, due to both negligent and malicious use. For this reason, the automated detection and tracking of UAV is a fundamental task in aerial security systems. Common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Matt Poyser , Daniel Organisciak , Chris G. Willcocks , Toby P. Breckon , Hubert P. H. Shum

The paper presents a technique to improve human detection in still images using deep learning. Our novel method, ViS-HuD, computes visual saliency map from the image. Then the input image is multiplied by the map and product is fed to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Vandit Gajjar , Yash Khandhediya , Ayesha Gurnani , Viraj Mavani , Mehul S. Raval

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) learn representation from data with an impressive capability, and brought important breakthroughs for processing images, time-series, natural language, audio, video, and many others. In the remote sensing field,…

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

Object detection in camera images, using deep learning has been proven successfully in recent years. Rising detection rates and computationally efficient network structures are pushing this technique towards application in production…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Felix Nobis , Maximilian Geisslinger , Markus Weber , Johannes Betz , Markus Lienkamp

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used due to their low cost and versatility, but they also pose security and privacy threats. Therefore, reliable detection for low-altitude UAVs is an important issue. The strong ground clutter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-25 Zeyang Wu , Wenbo Wang , Yuexing Peng

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

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have been standing out due to the wide range of applications in which they can be used autonomously. However, they need intelligent systems capable of providing a greater understanding of what they perceive to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Matheus G. Mateus , Ricardo B. Grando , Paulo L. J. Drews-Jr

Object detection is one of the fundamental objectives in Applied Computer Vision. In some of the applications, object detection becomes very challenging such as in the case of satellite image processing. Satellite image processing has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Arsalan Tahir , Muhammad Adil , Arslan Ali

Object detection in remote sensing, especially in aerial images, remains a challenging problem due to low image resolution, complex backgrounds, and variation of scale and angles of objects in images. In current implementations, multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Peng Sun , Guang Chen , Guerdan Luke , Yi Shang

The management of cattle over a huge area is still a challenging problem in the farming sector. With evolution in technology, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with consumer level digital cameras are becoming a popular alternative to manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Aparna Mendu , Bhavya Sehgal , Vaishnavi Mendu

In this paper, we present a subsystem, using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), for search and rescue missions, focusing on people detection, face recognition and tracking of identified individuals. The proposed solution integrates a UAV with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Luka Šiktar , Branimir Ćaran , Bojan Šekoranja , Marko Švaco

This paper proposes a deep learning based solution for multi-modal image alignment regarding UAV-taken images. Many recently proposed state-of-the-art alignment techniques rely on using Lucas-Kanade (LK) based solutions for a successful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Sedat Ozer , Alain P. Ndigande

Super-resolution, which aims to reconstruct high-resolution images from low-resolution images, has drawn considerable attention and has been intensively studied in computer vision and remote sensing communities. The super-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Rui Li , Xiaowei Zhao

Intelligent detection and tracking of the vessels on the sea play a significant role in conducting traffic avoidance in unmanned surface vessels(USV). Current traffic avoidance software relies mainly on Automated Identification System (AIS)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Srikanth Vemula , Eulises Franco , Michael Frye

With the advent of modern expert systems driven by deep learning that supplement human experts (e.g. radiologists, dermatologists, surveillance scanners), we analyze how and when do such expert systems enhance human performance in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Arturo Deza , Amit Surana , Miguel P. Eckstein

This work presents a neural network model capable of recognizing small and tiny objects in thermal images collected by unmanned aerial vehicles. Our model consists of three parts, the backbone, the neck, and the prediction head. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Minh Dang Tu , Kieu Trang Le , Manh Duong Phung

In this paper, we propose an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and bird recognition scheme with signal processing and deep learning for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system. We first provide the basic scene of low-altitude…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Hongliang Luo , Zhonghua Chu , Tengyu Zhang , Chuanbin Zhao , Bo Lin , Feifei Gao

This paper explores the use of applying a deep learning approach for 3D object detection to compute the relative position of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) equipped with a LiDAR sensor in a GPS-denied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Uthman Olawoye , Jason N. Gross