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In the application of computer-vision based displacement measurement, an optical target is usually required to prove the reference. In the case that the optical target cannot be attached to the measuring objective, edge detection, feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Dachuan Shi , Eldar Sabanovic , Luca Rizzetto , Viktor Skrickij , Roberto Oliverio , Nadia Kaviani , Yunguang Ye , Gintautas Bureika , Stefano Ricci , Markus Hecht

Existing nighttime aerial trackers based on prompt learning rely solely on spatial localization supervision, which fails to provide fine-grained cues that point to target features and inevitably produces vague prompts. This limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Zhiqiang Zhu , Xinbo Gao , Wen Lu , Jie Li , Zhaoyang Wang , Mingqian Ge

Target tracking is an important issue of social security. In order to track a target, traditionally a large amount of surveillance video data need to be uploaded into the cloud for processing and analysis, which put stremendous bandwidth…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-05 Yajun Liu , Congxu Zhu , Xiaoheng Deng , Peiyuan Guan , Zhiwen Wan , Jie Luo , Enlu Liu , Honggang Zhang

How can we effectively engineer a computer vision system that is able to interpret videos from unconstrained mobility platforms like UAVs? One promising option is to make use of image restoration and enhancement algorithms from the area of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Sreya Banerjee , Rosaura G. VidalMata , Zhangyang Wang , Walter J. Scheirer

In the past decade, object detection has achieved significant progress in natural images but not in aerial images, due to the massive variations in the scale and orientation of objects caused by the bird's-eye view of aerial images. More…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jian Ding , Nan Xue , Gui-Song Xia , Xiang Bai , Wen Yang , Micheal Ying Yang , Serge Belongie , Jiebo Luo , Mihai Datcu , Marcello Pelillo , Liangpei Zhang

In this paper we present a large-scale visual object detection and tracking benchmark, named VisDrone2018, aiming at advancing visual understanding tasks on the drone platform. The images and video sequences in the benchmark were captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Pengfei Zhu , Longyin Wen , Xiao Bian , Haibin Ling , Qinghua Hu

Tracking the object 6-DoF pose is crucial for various downstream robot tasks and real-world applications. In this paper, we investigate the real-world robot task of aerial vision guidance for aerial robotics manipulation, utilizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jingtao Sun , Yaonan Wang , Danwei Wang

The rapid proliferation of airborne platforms, including commercial aircraft, drones, and UAVs, has intensified the need for real-time, automated threat assessment systems. Current approaches depend heavily on manual monitoring, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Prosenjit Chatterjee , ANK Zaman

Correlation filter-based tracking has been widely applied in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with high efficiency. However, it has two imperfections, i.e., boundary effect and filter corruption. Several methods enlarging the search area can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Yiming Li , Changhong Fu , Ziyuan Huang , Yinqiang Zhang , Jia Pan

Drones or UAVs, equipped with different sensors, have been deployed in many places especially for urban traffic monitoring or last-mile delivery. It provides the ability to control the different aspects of traffic given real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 George Adaimi , Sven Kreiss , Alexandre Alahi

Object tracking is one of the foremost assignments in computer vision that has numerous commonsense applications such as traffic monitoring, robotics, autonomous vehicle tracking, and so on. Different researches have been tried later a long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zahra Soleimanitaleb , Mohammad Ali Keyvanrad

Transformer-based visual object tracking has been utilized extensively. However, the Transformer structure is lack of enough inductive bias. In addition, only focusing on encoding the global feature does harm to modeling local details,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Changhong Fu , Weiyu Peng , Sihang Li , Junjie Ye , Ziang Cao

In the domain of visual tracking, most deep learning-based trackers highlight the accuracy but casting aside efficiency. Therefore, their real-world deployment on mobile platforms like the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is impeded. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Changhong Fu , Ziang Cao , Yiming Li , Junjie Ye , Chen Feng

The vision of unmanned aerial vehicles is very significant for UAV-related applications such as search and rescue, landing on a moving platform, etc. In this work, we have developed an integrated system for the UAV landing on the moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Kangcheng Liu

Distinguishing visually similar objects by their motion remains a critical challenge in computer vision. Although supervised trackers show promise, contemporary self-supervised trackers struggle when visual cues become ambiguous, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Chenshuang Zhang , Kang Zhang , Joon Son Chung , In So Kweon , Junmo Kim , Chengzhi Mao

With the proliferation of low altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), visual multi-object tracking is becoming a critical security technology, demanding significant robustness even in complex environmental conditions. However, tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Tianyang Xu , Jinjie Gu , Xuefeng Zhu , XiaoJun Wu , Josef Kittler

Temporal contexts among consecutive frames are far from being fully utilized in existing visual trackers. In this work, we present TCTrack, a comprehensive framework to fully exploit temporal contexts for aerial tracking. The temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ziang Cao , Ziyuan Huang , Liang Pan , Shiwei Zhang , Ziwei Liu , Changhong Fu

This paper proposes a novel approach to map-based navigation system for unmanned aircraft. The proposed system attempts label-to-label matching, not image-to-image matching, between aerial images and a map database. The ground objects can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Youngjoo Kim

Commercial operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) would benefit from an onboard ability to sense and avoid (SAA) potential mid-air collision threats. In this paper we present a new approach for detection of aircraft below the horizon.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Jasmin James , Jason J. Ford , Timothy L. Molloy

Persistent target tracking in urban environments using UAV is a difficult task due to the limited field of view, visibility obstruction from obstacles and uncertain target motion. The vehicle needs to plan intelligently in 3D such that the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Sarthak Bhagat , Sujit PB