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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have emerged as versatile platforms, driving the demand for accurate modeling to support developmental testing. This paper proposes data-driven modeling software for UAV. Emphasizes the utilization of…

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted data collection has been emerging as a prominent application due to its flexibility, mobility, and low operational cost. However, under the dynamic and uncertainty of IoT data collection and energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Nam H. Chu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Nguyen Van Huynh , Eryk Dutkiewicz

Detecting objects from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is often hindered by a large number of small objects, resulting in low detection accuracy. To address this issue, mainstream approaches typically utilize multi-stage inferences. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Fan Liu , Liang Yao , Chuanyi Zhang , Ting Wu , Xinlei Zhang , Xiruo Jiang , Jun Zhou

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are transforming the future of transportation through advances in intelligent perception, decision-making, and control systems. However, their success is tied to one core capability, reliable object detection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Sayed Pedram Haeri Boroujeni , Niloufar Mehrabi , Hazim Alzorgan , Mahlagha Fazeli , Abolfazl Razi

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based Road Damage Detection (RDD) is important for daily maintenance and safety in cities, especially in terms of significantly reducing labor costs. However, current UAV-based RDD research is still faces many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Weichao Pan , Xu Wang , Wenqing Huan

Although much significant progress has been made in the research field of object detection with deep learning, there still exists a challenging task for the objects with small size, which is notably pronounced in UAV-captured images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yingjie Liu

Occlusion is a longstanding difficulty that challenges the UAV-based object detection. Many works address this problem by adapting the detection model. However, few of them exploit that the UAV could fundamentally improve detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Xinhua Jiang , Tianpeng Liu , Li Liu , Zhen Liu , Yongxiang Liu

Drones or general Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), endowed with computer vision function by on-board cameras and embedded systems, have become popular in a wide range of applications. However, real-time scene parsing through object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Pengyi Zhang , Yunxin Zhong , Xiaoqiong Li

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming more popular in various sectors, offering many benefits, yet introducing significant challenges to privacy and safety. This paper investigates state-of-the-art solutions for detecting and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Mohssen E. Elshaar , Zeyad M. Manaa , Mohammed R. Elbalshy , Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui , Ayman M. Abdallah

With the rapid advancement of autonomous driving technology, there is a growing need for enhanced safety and efficiency in the automatic environmental perception of vehicles during their operation. In modern vehicle setups, cameras and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Di Wu , Feng Yang , Benlian Xu , Pan Liao , Bo Liu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) especially drones, equipped with vision techniques have become very popular in recent years, with their extensive use in wide range of applications. Many of these applications require use of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Subrahmanyam Vaddi , Chandan Kumar , Ali Jannesari

This paper presents a new high resolution aerial images dataset in which moving objects are labelled manually. It aims to contribute to the evaluation of the moving object detection methods for moving cameras. The problem of recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Ibrahim Delibasoglu

Detecting small drones, often indistinguishable from birds, is crucial for modern surveillance. This work introduces a drone detection methodology built upon the medium-sized YOLOv11 object detection model. To enhance its performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rayson Laroca , Marcelo dos Santos , David Menotti

Real-time object detection on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging issue due to the limited computing resources of edge GPU devices as Internet of Things (IoT) nodes. To solve this problem, in this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Wei Zhou , Xuanlin Min , Rui Hu , Yiwen Long , Huan Luo , JunYi

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

Small object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery is challenging, mainly due to scale variation, structural detail degradation, and limited computational resources. In high-altitude scenarios, fine-grained features are further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xuecheng Bai , Yuxiang Wang , Chuanzhi Xu , Boyu Hu , Kang Han , Ruijie Pan , Xiaowei Niu , Xiaotian Guan , Liqiang Fu , Pengfei Ye

The unique cost, flexibility, speed, and efficiency of modern UAVs make them an attractive choice in many applications in contemporary society. This, however, causes an ever-increasing number of reported malicious or accidental incidents,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Nikos Sakellariou , Antonios Lalas , Konstantinos Votis , Dimitrios Tzovaras

The state of the art in 3D object detection using sensor fusion heavily relies on calibration quality, which is difficult to maintain in large scale deployment outside a lab environment. We present the first calibration-free approach for 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Michael Fürst , Rahul Jakkamsetty , René Schuster , Didier Stricker

Small target detection in UAV imagery faces significant challenges such as scale variations, dense distribution, and the dominance of small targets. Existing algorithms rely on manually designed components, and general-purpose detectors are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yuankai Chen , Kai Lin , Qihong Wu , Xinxuan Yang , Jiashuo Lai , Ruoen Chen , Haonan Shi , Minfan He , Meihua Wang

This work introduces a new preprocessing step for object detection applicable to UAV bird's eye view imagery, which we call Adaptive Resizing. By design, it helps alleviate the challenges coming with the vast variances in objects' scales,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Martin Messmer , Benjamin Kiefer , Andreas Zell