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With the rapid advancement of autonomous driving technology, efficient and accurate object detection capabilities have become crucial factors in ensuring the safety and reliability of autonomous driving systems. However, in low-visibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Xiguang Li , Jiafu Chen , Yunhe Sun , Na Lin , Ammar Hawbani , Liang Zhao

Vision-centric Bird's Eye View (BEV) perception holds considerable promise for autonomous driving. Recent studies have prioritized efficiency or accuracy enhancements, yet the issue of domain shift has been overlooked, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Rongyu Zhang , Jiaming Liu , Xiaoqi Li , Xiaowei Chi , Dan Wang , Li Du , Yuan Du , Shanghang Zhang

Existing approaches to drone visual geo-localization predominantly adopt the image-based setting, where a single drone-view snapshot is matched with images from other platforms. Such task formulation, however, underutilizes the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hao Ju , Shaofei Huang , Si Liu , Zhedong Zheng

Autonomous highway driving, especially for long-haul heavy trucks, requires detecting objects at long ranges beyond 500 meters to satisfy braking distance requirements at high speeds. At long distances, vehicles and other critical objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Parker Ewen , Dmitriy Rivkin , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

To detect unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in real-time, computer vision and deep learning approaches are evolving research areas. Interest in this problem has grown due to concerns regarding the possible hazards and misuse of employing UAVs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Adnan Munir , Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui , Saeed Anwar

To ensure the security of airports, it is essential to protect the airside from unauthorized access. For this purpose, security fences are commonly used, but they require regular inspection to detect damages. However, due to the growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Nils Friederich , Andreas Specker , Jürgen Beyerer

Environment perception is the task for intelligent vehicles on which all subsequent steps rely. A key part of perception is to safely detect other road users such as vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists. With modern deep learning techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Florian Kraus , Klaus Dietmayer

Object detection and classification are crucial tasks across various application domains, particularly in the development of safe and reliable Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Existing deep learning-based methods such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Rashed Al Amin , Roman Obermaisser

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for enhancing visual comprehension in autonomous driving systems by integrating visual language models (VLMs) with additional visual perception module specialised in object detection. We extend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Linfeng He , Yiming Sun , Sihao Wu , Jiaxu Liu , Xiaowei Huang

The hypothesis that image datasets gathered online "in the wild" can produce biased object recognizers, e.g. preferring professional photography or certain viewing angles, is studied. A new "in the lab" data collection infrastructure is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Brandon Leung , Chih-Hui Ho , Amir Persekian , David Orozco , Yen Chang , Erik Sandstrom , Bo Liu , Nuno Vasconcelos

The integration of large-scale circuits and systems emphasizes the importance of automated defect detection of electronic components. The YOLO image detection model has been used to detect PCB defects and it has become a typical AI-assisted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hengyi Zhu , Linye Wei , He Li

As airborne vehicles are becoming more autonomous and ubiquitous, it has become vital to develop the capability to detect the objects in their surroundings. This paper attempts to address the problem of drones detection from other flying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Muhammad Waseem Ashraf , Waqas Sultani , Mubarak Shah

The increase in vehicle numbers in California, driven by inadequate transportation systems and sparse speed cameras, necessitates effective vehicle speed detection. Detecting vehicle speeds per lane is critical for monitoring High-Occupancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Amirali Ataee Naeini , Ashkan Teymouri , Ghazaleh Jafarsalehi , Michael Zhang

In this paper a vision-based system for detection, motion tracking and following of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with other UAV (follower) is presented. For detection of an airborne UAV we apply a convolutional neural network YOLO trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Antonella Barisic , Marko Car , Stjepan Bogdan

The real-time detection of small objects in complex scenes, such as the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photography captured by drones, has dual challenges of detecting small targets (<32 pixels) and maintaining real-time efficiency on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Defan Chen , Yaohua Hu , Luchan Zhang

Human drivers have distinct driving techniques, knowledge, and sentiments due to unique driving traits. Driver drowsiness has been a serious issue endangering road safety; therefore, it is essential to design an effective drowsiness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ghanta Sai Krishna , Kundrapu Supriya , Jai Vardhan , Mallikharjuna Rao K

We present Deeply Supervised Object Detector (DSOD), a framework that can learn object detectors from scratch. State-of-the-art object objectors rely heavily on the off-the-shelf networks pre-trained on large-scale classification datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Zhiqiang Shen , Zhuang Liu , Jianguo Li , Yu-Gang Jiang , Yurong Chen , Xiangyang Xue

The proliferation of drones in civilian airspace has raised urgent security concerns, necessitating robust real-time surveillance systems. In response to the 2025 VIP Cup challenge tasks - drone detection, tracking, and payload…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Shahriar Kabir , Istiak Ahmmed Rifti , H. M. Shadman Tabib , Mushfiqur Rahman , Sadatul Islam Sadi , Hasnaen Adil , Ahmed Mahir Sultan Rumi , Ch Md Rakin Haider

This paper reports a visible and thermal drone monitoring system that integrates deep-learning-based detection and tracking modules. The biggest challenge in adopting deep learning methods for drone detection is the paucity of training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Ye Wang , Yueru Chen , Jongmoo Choi , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Safe navigation of self-driving cars and robots requires a precise understanding of their environment. Training data for perception systems cannot cover the wide variety of objects that may appear during deployment. Thus, reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Alexey Nekrasov , Rui Zhou , Miriam Ackermann , Alexander Hermans , Bastian Leibe , Matthias Rottmann