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The low resolution of objects of interest in aerial images makes pedestrian detection and action detection extremely challenging tasks. Furthermore, using deep convolutional neural networks to process large images can be demanding in terms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Amir Soleimani , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Thermal imaging from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) holds significant potential for applications in search and rescue, wildlife monitoring, and emergency response, especially under low-light or obscured conditions. However, the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Antonella Barisic Kulas , Andreja Jurasovic , Stjepan Bogdan

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

While generic object detection has achieved large improvements with rich feature hierarchies from deep nets, detecting small objects with poor visual cues remains challenging. Motion cues from multiple frames may be more informative for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Ryota Yoshihashi , Tu Tuan Trinh , Rei Kawakami , Shaodi You , Makoto Iida , Takeshi Naemura

Multi-modal perception is essential for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, as it enables a comprehensive understanding of the UAVs' surrounding environment. However, most existing multi-modal UAV datasets are primarily biased toward…

Single visual object tracking from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) poses fundamental challenges such as object occlusion, small-scale objects, background clutter, and abrupt camera motion. To tackle these difficulties, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Stéphane Vujasinović , Stefan Becker , Timo Breuer , Sebastian Bullinger , Norbert Scherer-Negenborn , Michael Arens

The massive growth of Smart City and Internet of Things applications enables safety and security. The data those are produced from surveillance cameras in aerial devices such as unmanned aerial networks (UAVs) are needed to be transferred…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Haemin Lee , Soyi Jung , Joongheon Kim

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) are likely to significantly increase the amount of air traffic. If the skies are full of UAVs, they need to interact with each other, for instance by yielding or other evasive maneuvers. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-05 Victor L. Knoop , Serge P. Hoogendoorn

As drones become increasingly prevalent in human life, they also raises security concerns such as unauthorized access and control, as well as collisions and interference with manned aircraft. Therefore, ensuring the ability to accurately…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Zixiao Zhao , Qinghe Du , Xiang Yao , Lei Lu , Shijiao Zhang

This paper proposes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based distributed sensing framework that uses orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms to detect the position of a ground target, and UAVs operate in half-duplex mode.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Xavier Alejandro Flores Cabezas , Diana Pamela Moya Osorio , Markku Juntti

Object detection is an important and challenging problem in computer vision. Although the past decade has witnessed major advances in object detection in natural scenes, such successes have been slow to aerial imagery, not only because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Gui-Song Xia , Xiang Bai , Jian Ding , Zhen Zhu , Serge Belongie , Jiebo Luo , Mihai Datcu , Marcello Pelillo , Liangpei Zhang

In recent years, using a network of autonomous and cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) without command and communication from the ground station has become more imperative, in particular in search-and-rescue operations, disaster…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Han Peng , Abolfazl Razi , Fatemeh Afghah , Jonathan Ashdown

How autonomous vehicles and human drivers share public transportation systems is an important problem, as fully automatic transportation environments are still a long way off. Understanding human drivers' behavior can be beneficial for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zhiqian Qiao , Jing Zhao , Zachariah Tyree , Priyantha Mudalige , Jeff Schneider , John M. Dolan

Autonomous driving has achieved rapid development over the last few decades, including the machine perception as an important issue of it. Although object detection based on conventional cameras has achieved remarkable results in 2D/3D,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Rui Yang , Zhi Yan , Tao Yang , Yassine Ruichek

Object detection is a computer vision task that has become an integral part of many consumer applications today such as surveillance and security systems, mobile text recognition, and diagnosing diseases from MRI/CT scans. Object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Abhishek Balasubramaniam , Sudeep Pasricha

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) use natural images and videos as input to understand the real world by overlaying and inferring digital elements, facilitating proactive detection in an effort to assure safety. A crucial aspect of this process is…

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

In this paper, we propose to combine detections from background subtraction and from a multiclass object detector for multiple object tracking (MOT) in urban traffic scenes. These objects are associated across frames using spatial, colour…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Hui-Lee Ooi , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Nicolas Saunier

Drone detection is the problem of finding the smallest rectangle that encloses the drone(s) in a video sequence. In this study, we propose a solution using an end-to-end object detection model based on convolutional neural networks. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Cemal Aker , Sinan Kalkan

Open-set detection is crucial for robust UAV autonomy in air-to-air object detection under real-world conditions. Traditional closed-set detectors degrade significantly under domain shifts and flight data corruption, posing risks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Spyridon Loukovitis , Anastasios Arsenos , Vasileios Karampinis , Athanasios Voulodimos