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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

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a crucial component of situational awareness in military defense applications. With the growing use of unmanned aerial systems (UASs), MOT methods for aerial surveillance is in high demand. Application of MOT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Wanlin Xie , Jaime Ide , Daniel Izadi , Sean Banger , Thayne Walker , Ryan Ceresani , Dylan Spagnuolo , Christopher Guagliano , Henry Diaz , Jason Twedt

Object detection is increasingly used onboard Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for various applications; however, the machine learning (ML) models for UAV-based detection are often validated using data curated for tasks unrelated to the UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Eung-Joo Lee , Damon M. Conover , Shuvra S. Bhattacharyyaa , Heesung Kwon , Jason Hill , Kenneth Evensen

Underwater scenes intrinsically involve degradation problems owing to heterogeneous ocean elements. Prevailing underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods stick to straightforward feature modeling to learn the mapping function, which leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zhixiong Huang , Xinying Wang , Chengpei Xu , Jinjiang Li , Lin Feng

Rapid generation of large-scale orthoimages from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has been a long-standing focus of research in the field of aerial mapping. A multi-sensor UAV system, integrating the Global Positioning System (GPS), Inertial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jialei He , Zhihao Zhan , Zhituo Tu , Xiang Zhu , Jie Yuan

Multi-modal 3D object detection with bird's eye view (BEV) has achieved desired advances on benchmarks. Nonetheless, the accuracy may drop significantly in the real world due to data corruption such as sensor configurations for LiDAR and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Rui Ding , Zhaonian Kuang , Yuzhe Ji , Meng Yang , Xinhu Zheng , Gang Hua

The consumer UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) market has grown significantly over the past few years. Despite its huge potential in spurring economic growth by supporting various applications, the increase of consumer UAVs poses potential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Amir Alipour-Fanid , Monireh Dabaghchian , Ning Wang , Pu Wang , Liang Zhao , Kai Zeng

Deep learning-based algorithms can provide state-of-the-art accuracy for remote sensing technologies such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)/drones, potentially enhancing their remote sensing capabilities for many emergency response and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides

Feed-forward 3D reconstruction has advanced rapidly, but current models remain unreliable in UAV photogrammetric acquisition. We argue that this failure is caused not only by appearance-domain shift, but also by UAV-specific camera-geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xiang Yang , Yongli Wang , HaiFeng Li , Yunsheng Zhang

We propose a novel method for geolocalizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in environments lacking Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Current state-of-the-art techniques employ an offline-trained encoder to generate a vector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Theo Di Piazza , Enric Meinhardt-Llopis , Gabriele Facciolo , Benedicte Bascle , Corentin Abgrall , Jean-Clement Devaux

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

Recent works in video quality assessment (VQA) typically employ monolithic models that typically predict a single quality score for each test video. These approaches cannot provide diagnostic, interpretable feedback, offering little insight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Chen Feng , Tianhao Peng , Fan Zhang , David Bull

Unmanned surface vehicles can encounter a number of varied visual circumstances during operation, some of which can be very difficult to interpret. While most cases can be solved only using color camera images, some weather and lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Jon Muhovič , Janez Perš

Multimodal fusion has become a key enabler for UAV-based object detection, as each modality provides complementary cues for robust feature extraction. However, due to significant differences in resolution, field of view, and sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Kangcheng Bin , Chen Chen , Ting Hu , Jiahao Qi , Ping Zhong

As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) become more accessible with a growing range of applications, the potential risk of UAV disruption increases. Recent development in deep learning allows vision-based counter-UAV systems to detect and track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Daniel Organisciak , Matthew Poyser , Aishah Alsehaim , Shanfeng Hu , Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Toby P. Breckon , Hubert P. H. Shum

Due to its extensive applications, aerial image object detection has long been a hot topic in computer vision. In recent years, advancements in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) technology have further propelled this field to new heights,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yang Zhou , Junjie Li , CongYang Ou , Dawei Yan , Haokui Zhang , Xizhe Xue

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become pivotal in domains spanning military, agriculture, surveillance, and logistics, revolutionizing data collection and environmental interaction. With the advancement in drone technology, there is a…

The technology for Visual Odometry (VO) that estimates the position and orientation of the moving object through analyzing the image sequences captured by on-board cameras, has been well investigated with the rising interest in autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Ran Zhu , Mingkun Yang , Wang Liu , Rujun Song , Bo Yan , Zhuoling Xiao

Efficient data collection methods play a major role in helping us better understand the Earth and its ecosystems. In many applications, the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for monitoring and remote sensing is rapidly gaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Felix Stache , Jonas Westheider , Federico Magistri , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

Today ship hull inspection including the examination of the external coating, detection of defects, and other types of external degradation such as corrosion and marine growth is conducted underwater by means of Remotely Operated Vehicles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Md Abulkalam Azad , Ahmed Mohammed , Maryna Waszak , Brian Elvesæter , Martin Ludvigsen