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In this paper we propose a novel approach aimed at recovering the 3D position of an UUV from UAV imagery in shallow-water environments. Through combination of UAV and UUV measurements, we show that our method can be utilized as an accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Antun Đuraš , Matija Sukno , Ivana Palunko

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest recently in wireless communication due to their high maneuverability, flexible deployment, and low cost. This paper studies a UAV-enabled wireless network where the UAV is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), equipped with cameras, are employed in numerous applications, including aerial photography, surveillance, and agriculture. In these applications, robust object detection and tracking are essential for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Hui Ye , Rajshekhar Sunderraman , Shihao Ji

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) presents significant challenges due to the view discrepancy between oblique UAV images and overhead satellite images. Existing methods heavily rely on the supervision of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Haoyuan Li , Chang Xu , Wen Yang , Li Mi , Huai Yu , Haijian Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their flexible mobility, on-demand deployment, and the ability to establish high probability line-of-sight wireless communication. As a result, UAVs have been extensively used as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Yunhao Quan , Nan Cheng , Xiucheng Wang , Jinglong Shen , Longfei Ma , Zhisheng Yin

Low-altitude economy includes the application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving ground robots. This paper investigates the 3-dimensional (3D) trajectory and communication optimization for low-altitude air-ground cooperation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Menghao Hu , Tong Zhang , Shuai Wang , Chiya Zhang , Changyang She , Gaojie Chen , Miaowen Wen

A framework is introduced for planning unmanned aerial vehicle flight paths for visual surveillance of ground targets, each having particular viewing requirements. Specifically, each target is associated with a set of imaging parameters,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-16 Jeffrey R. Peters , Amit Surana , Grant S. Taylor , Terry S. Turpin , Francesco Bullo

This work proposes a framework for the robust design of UAV-assisted wireless networks that combine 3D trajectory optimization with user mobility prediction to address dynamic resource allocation challenges. We proposed a sparse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Asad Mahmood , Thang X. Vu , Wali Ullah Khan , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

The global positioning system (GPS) has become an indispensable navigation method for field operations with unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) in marine environments. However, GPS may not always be available outdoors because it is vulnerable…

Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) exhibit immense potential for navigating indoor and hard-to-reach areas, yet their significant constraints in payload and autonomy have largely prevented their use for complex tasks like high-quality…

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, the problem of trajectory design of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for maximizing the number of satisfied users is studied in a UAV based cellular network where the UAV works as a flying base station that serves users, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Xuanlin Liu , Mingzhe Chen , Changchuan Yin

The use of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been foreseen as a promising technology for the next generation communication networks. Since there are no regulations for UAVs deployment yet, most likely they form a network in coexistence…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Ali Rahmati , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Yavuz Yapici , Xiaofan He , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted plenty of attention due to their high flexibility and enhanced communication ability. However, the limited coverage and energy of UAVs make it difficult to provide timely wireless service for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Rui Wang , Kaitao Meng , Deshi Li

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications has drawn significant interest recently due to many advantages such as low cost, high mobility, and on-demand deployment. This paper addresses the issue of physical-layer security in a UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Guangchi Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Miao Cui , Rui Zhang

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

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled multicasting system, where a UAV is dispatched to disseminate a common file to a number of geographically distributed ground terminals (GTs). Our objective is to design the UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Yong Zeng , Xiaoli Xu , Rui Zhang

Reliable 3D trajectory estimation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a fundamental requirement for anti-UAV systems, yet the acquisition of large-scale and accurately annotated trajectory data remains prohibitively expensive. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Haoxiang Lei , Daotong Wang , Shenghai Yuan , Jianbo Su

This paper investigates the problem of computing a two-dimensional optimal curvature straight line (CS) shortest path for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to intercept a moving target, with both the UAV (pursuer) and target travelling at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Masuda Akter , Mohammed Mustafa Rizvi

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