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The rapid deployment of drones poses significant challenges for airspace management, security, and surveillance. Current detection and classification technologies, including cameras, LiDAR, and conventional radar systems, often struggle to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 O. Yerushalimov , D. Vovchuk , A. Glam , P. Ginzburg

The proliferation of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has raised significant safety concerns due to their potential misuse in activities such as espionage, smuggling, and infrastructure disruption. This paper addresses the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Stefan Glüge , Matthias Nyfeler , Ahmad Aghaebrahimian , Nicola Ramagnano , Christof Schüpbach

The forthcoming era of massive drone delivery deployment in urban environments raises a need to develop reliable control and monitoring systems. While active solutions, i.e., wireless sharing of a real-time location between air traffic…

Detecting small drones, often indistinguishable from birds, is crucial for modern surveillance. This work introduces a drone detection methodology built upon the medium-sized YOLOv11 object detection model. To enhance its performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rayson Laroca , Marcelo dos Santos , David Menotti

As the threats of small drones have grown, developing radars to detect the small drones has become an important issue. In earlier studies, we proposed the stationary point concentration (SPC) technique for the small drone detection with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Junhyeong Park , Jun-Sung Park , Kyung-Bin Bae , Seong-Ook Park

In image processing, it is essential to detect and track air targets, especially UAVs. In this paper, we detect the flying drone using a fisheye camera. In the field of diagnosis and classification of objects, there are always many problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Fatemeh Mahdavi , Roozbeh Rajabi

Micro-Doppler signatures are a proven modality for discriminating between drones and birds, but their reliability degrades in low-SNR, data-constrained settings where deep learning models often fail. This paper presents a systematic study…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Shaiq e Mustafa , Salman Liaquat , Imran Hafeez Abbasi , Azhar Hasan

A vision-based drone-to-drone detection system is crucial for various applications like collision avoidance, countering hostile drones, and search-and-rescue operations. However, detecting drones presents unique challenges, including small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Sairam VC Rebbapragada , Pranoy Panda , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Micro-Doppler signature is a potent feature that has been used for target identification and micro-motion parameter estimation. The extraction of high frequency micro-Doppler signature from frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-21 Soorya Peter , Vinod Veera Reddy

Detecting UAVs is becoming more crucial for various industries such as airports and nuclear power plants for improving surveillance and security measures. Exploiting radio frequency (RF) based drone control and communication enables a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Sanjoy Basak , Sreeraj Rajendran , Sofie Pollin , Bart Scheers

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been the subject of intense research for the classification of radio frequency (RF) signals, such as synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery or micro-Doppler signatures. However, a fundamental…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-21 Mehmet Saygin Seyfioglu , Baris Erol , Sevgi Zubeyde Gurbuz , Moeness G. Amin

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

Detecting small objects, such as drones, over long distances presents a significant challenge with broad implications for security, surveillance, environmental monitoring, and autonomous systems. Traditional imaging-based methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Junran Guo , Tonglin Mu , Keyuan Li , Jianing Li , Ziyang Luo , Ye Chen , Xiaodong Fan , Jinquan Huang , Minjie Liu , Jinbei Zhang , Ruoyang Qi , Naiting Gu , Shihai Sun

The knowledge of the radar signature of aerial targets, such as drones, is critical in designing an effective radar detection system. It is a challenging task to measure the radar cross-section (RCS) of small drones. This paper describes a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-15 Martins Ezuma , Mark Funderburk , Ismail Guvenc

Radar sensors can be used for analyzing the induced frequency shifts due to micro-motions in both range and velocity dimensions identified as micro-Doppler ($\boldsymbol{\mu}$-D) and micro-Range ($\boldsymbol{\mu}$-R), respectively.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Sherif Abdulatif , Qian Wei , Fady Aziz , Bernhard Kleiner , Urs Schneider

The growing ubiquity of drones has raised concerns over the ability of traditional air-space monitoring technologies to accurately characterise such vehicles. Here, we present a CNN using a decision tree and ensemble structure to fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Stirling Scholes , Alice Ruget , German Mora-Martin , Feng Zhu , Istvan Gyongy , Jonathan Leach

Machine learning researchers strive to develop better and better algorithms to solve computer vision problems, such as image classification. In recent years, the classification of micro-Doppler spectrograms has also benefited from these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Arkadiusz Czuba

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

This paper discusses the challenges of detecting and categorizing small drones with radar automatic target recognition (ATR) technology. The authors suggest integrating ATR capabilities into drone detection radar systems to improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Jiangkun Gong , Jun Yan , Deyong Kong , Deren Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently received vast attention in applications requiring classification of radar returns, including radar-based human activity recognition for security, smart homes, assisted living, and biomedicine.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-24 Baris Erol , Sevgi Zubeyde Gurbuz , Moeness G. Amin
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