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This paper explores the process of designing an automatic multi-sensor drone detection system. Besides the common video and audio sensors, the system also includes a thermal infrared camera, which is shown to be a feasible solution to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Fredrik Svanstrom , Cristofer Englund , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez

The development of computer vision algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications in urban environments heavily relies on the availability of large-scale datasets with accurate annotations. However, collecting and annotating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Francesco Barbato , Matteo Caligiuri , Pietro Zanuttigh

Detecting Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in low-altitude environments is essential for perception and defense systems but remains highly challenging due to complex backgrounds, camouflage, and multimodal interference. In real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shenghui Huang , Menghao Hu , Longkun Zou , Hongyu Chi , Zekai Li , Feng Gao , Fan Yang , Qingyao Wu , Ke Chen

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), specifically drones equipped with remote sensing object detection technology, have rapidly gained a broad spectrum of applications and emerged as one of the primary research focuses in the field of computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Li Zhu , Jiahui Xiong , Feng Xiong , Hanzheng Hu , Zhengnan Jiang

Thanks to the advantages of flexible deployment and high mobility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely applied in the areas of disaster management, agricultural plant protection, environment monitoring and so on. With the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Zhiqing Wei , Mingyue Zhu , Ning Zhang , Lin Wang , Yingying Zou , Zeyang Meng , Huici Wu , Zhiyong Feng

Detection of moving objects such as vehicles in videos acquired from an airborne camera is very useful for video analytics applications. Using fast low power algorithms for onboard moving object detection would also provide region of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Noor Al-Shakarji , Filiz Bunyak , Hadi Aliakbarpour , Guna Seetharaman , Kannappan Palaniappan

Acquiring data to train deep learning-based object detectors on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is expensive, time-consuming and may even be prohibited by law in specific environments. On the other hand, synthetic data is fast and cheap to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Benjamin Kiefer , David Ott , Andreas Zell

3D object detection using LiDAR data is an indispensable component for autonomous driving systems. Yet, only a few LiDAR-based 3D object detection methods leverage segmentation information to further guide the detection process. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Hamidreza Fazlali , Yixuan Xu , Yuan Ren , Bingbing Liu

The availability of real-world data is a key element for novel developments in the fields of automotive and traffic research. Aerial imagery has the major advantage of recording multiple objects simultaneously and overcomes limitations such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Friedrich Kruber , Eduardo Sánchez Morales , Samarjit Chakraborty , Michael Botsch

Over the past few years, researchers have presented many different applications for convolutional neural networks, including those for the detection and recognition of objects from images. The desire to understand our own nature has always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Gergely Csönde , Yoshihide Sekimoto , Takehiro Kashiyama

In the realm of aerial imaging, the ability to detect small objects is pivotal for a myriad of applications, encompassing environmental surveillance, urban design, and crisis management. Leveraging RetinaNet, this work unveils DDR-Net: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zhicheng Tang , Jinwen Tang , Yi Shang

Object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) images has emerged as a focal area of research, which presents two significant challenges: i) objects are typically small and dense within vast images; ii) computational resource constraints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Chen Li , Rui Zhao , Zeyu Wang , Huiying Xu , Xinzhong Zhu

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images remains a highly challenging task, primarily caused by the complexity of background noise and the imbalance of target scales. Traditional methods easily struggle to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Wenfeng Zhang , Jun Ni , Yue Meng , Xiaodong Pei , Wei Hu , Qibing Qin , Lei Huang

The 3D visual perception for vehicles with the surround-view fisheye camera system is a critical and challenging task for low-cost urban autonomous driving. While existing monocular 3D object detection methods perform not well enough on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Zizhang Wu , Wenkai Zhang , Jizheng Wang , Man Wang , Yuanzhu Gan , Xinchao Gou , Muqing Fang , Jing Song

Tremendous progress in deep learning over the last years has led towards a future with autonomous vehicles on our roads. Nevertheless, the performance of their perception systems is strongly dependent on the quality of the utilized training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Daniel Bogdoll , Enrico Eisen , Maximilian Nitsche , Christin Scheib , J. Marius Zöllner

Reliable deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in cluttered unknown environments requires accurate sensors for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied localization and obstacle avoidance. Such a requirement limits the usage…

In this survey, we first introduce the background of popular sensors used for self-driving, their data properties, and the corresponding object detection algorithms. Next, we discuss existing datasets that can be used for evaluating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Yingjie Wang , Qiuyu Mao , Hanqi Zhu , Jiajun Deng , Yu Zhang , Jianmin Ji , Houqiang Li , Yanyong Zhang

The development of computer vision algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) imagery heavily relies on the availability of annotated high-resolution aerial data. However, the scarcity of large-scale real datasets with pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Giulia Rizzoli , Francesco Barbato , Matteo Caligiuri , Pietro Zanuttigh

Addressing airport traffic jams is one of the most crucial and challenging tasks in the remote sensing field, especially for the busiest airports. Several solutions have been employed to address this problem depending on the airplane…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 W. T. Alshaibani , Mustafa Helvaci , Ibraheem Shayea , Hafizal Mohamad

The rapid proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has highlighted the importance of robust and efficient object detection in diverse aerial scenarios. Detecting small objects under complex conditions, however, remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Kunwei Lv , Zhiren Xiao , Hang Ren , Ping Lan