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Object detection using images or videos captured by drones is a promising technology with significant potential across various industries. However, a major challenge is that drone images are typically taken from high altitudes, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Hyun-Ki Jung

The safe operation of drone swarms beyond visual line of sight requires multiple safeguards to mitigate the risk of collision between drones flying in close-proximity scenarios. Cooperative navigation and flight coordination strategies that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Manduhu Manduhu , Alexander Dow , Petar Trslic , Gerard Dooly , Benjamin Blanck , James Riordan

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) representation is crucial for the perception function in autonomous driving tasks. It is difficult to balance the accuracy, efficiency and range of BEV representation. The existing works are restricted to a limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Hang Wu , Zhenghao Zhang , Siyuan Lin , Tong Qin , Jin Pan , Qiang Zhao , Chunjing Xu , Ming Yang

Accurate motion understanding of the dynamic objects within the scene in bird's-eye-view (BEV) is critical to ensure a reliable obstacle avoidance system and smooth path planning for autonomous vehicles. However, this task has received…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Hiep Truong Cong , Ajay Kumar Sigatapu , Arindam Das , Yashwanth Sharma , Venkatesh Satagopan , Ganesh Sistu , Ciaran Eising

Predominant methods for image-based drone detection frequently rely on employing generic object detection algorithms like YOLOv5. While proficient in identifying drones against homogeneous backgrounds, these algorithms often struggle in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Tamara R. Lenhard , Andreas Weinmann , Stefan Jäger , Tobias Koch

With the increasing utilization of Internet of Things (IoT) enabled drones in diverse applications like photography, delivery, and surveillance, concerns regarding privacy and security have become more prominent. Drones have the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jaskaran Singh

Vision-based drone-to-drone detection has attracted increasing attention due to its importance in numerous tasks such as vision-based swarming, aerial see-and-avoid, and malicious drone detection. However, existing methods often encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hanqing Guo , Xiuxiu Lin , Shiyu Zhao

Obstacle avoidance in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as a fundamental capability, has gained increasing attention with the growing focus on spatial intelligence. However, current obstacle-avoidance methods mainly depend on limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiangkai Zhang , Dizhe Zhang , WenZhuo Cao , Zhaoliang Wan , Yingjie Niu , Lu Qi , Xu Yang , Zhiyong Liu

Drone-based target detection presents inherent challenges, such as the high density and overlap of targets in drone-based images, as well as the blurriness of targets under varying lighting conditions, which complicates identification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yuchen Zheng , Yuxin Jing , Jufeng Zhao , Guangmang Cui

Detecting agricultural pests in complex forestry environments using remote sensing imagery is fundamental for ecological preservation, yet it is severely hampered by practical challenges. Targets are often minuscule, heavily occluded, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Aoduo Li , Peikai Lin , Jiancheng Li , Zhen Zhang , Shiting Wu , Zexiao Liang , Zhifa Jiang

Drones, or general UAVs, equipped with a single camera have been widely deployed to a broad range of applications, such as aerial photography, fast goods delivery and most importantly, surveillance. Despite the great progress achieved in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Haotian Zhang , Gaoang Wang , Zhichao Lei , Jenq-Neng Hwang

As drone-based object detection technology continues to evolve, the demand is shifting from merely detecting objects to enabling users to accurately identify specific targets. For example, users can input particular targets as prompts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Hyun-Ki Jung

Computer vision, particularly vehicle and pedestrian identification is critical to the evolution of autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, and video surveillance. Current traffic monitoring systems confront major difficulty in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Md Nahid Sadik , Tahmim Hossain , Faisal Sayeed

Object detection is a fundamental visual recognition problem in computer vision and has been widely studied in the past decades. Visual object detection aims to find objects of certain target classes with precise localization in a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Xiongwei Wu , Doyen Sahoo , Steven C. H. Hoi

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims to detect the objects beyond the set of classes observed during training. This work introduces a straightforward and efficient strategy that utilizes pre-trained vision-language models (VLM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shilin Xu , Xiangtai Li , Size Wu , Wenwei Zhang , Yunhai Tong , Chen Change Loy

Automatic detection of traffic accidents is an important emerging topic in traffic monitoring systems. Nowadays many urban intersections are equipped with surveillance cameras connected to traffic management systems. Therefore, computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Hadi Ghahremannezhad , Hang Shi , Chengjun Liu

Identifying drones and birds correctly is essential for keeping the skies safe and improving security systems. Using the VIP CUP 2025 dataset, which provides both RGB and infrared (IR) images, this study presents EGD-YOLOv8n, a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sudipto Sarkar , Mohammad Asif Hasan , Khondokar Ashik Shahriar , Fablia Labiba , Nahian Tasnim , Sheikh Anawarul Haq Fattah

In this paper, we present a development process of a drone detection system involving a machine learning object detection component. The purpose is to reach acceptable performance objectives and provide sufficient evidences, required by the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Mohammed Belcaid , Eric Bonnafous , Louis Crison , Christophe Faure , Eric Jenn , Claire Pagetti

Safe autonomous agents and mobile robots need fast real time 3D perception, especially for vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians. We introduce a new bird's eye view (BEV) encoding, which maps the full 3D LiDAR point cloud into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mohammad Khoshkdahan , Alexey Vinel

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), specifically drones equipped with remote sensing object detection technology, have rapidly gained a broad spectrum of applications and emerged as one of the primary research focuses in the field of computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Li Zhu , Jiahui Xiong , Feng Xiong , Hanzheng Hu , Zhengnan Jiang