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With substantial recent developments in aviation technologies, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly integrated in commercial and military operations internationally. Research into the applications of aircraft data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Victoria Bell1 , Divish Rengasamy , Benjamin Rothwell , Grazziela P Figueredo

Estimating and understanding the surroundings of the vehicle precisely forms the basic and crucial step for the autonomous vehicle. The perception system plays a significant role in providing an accurate interpretation of a vehicle's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Sreenivasa Hikkal Venugopala

Acquiring data to train deep learning-based object detectors on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is expensive, time-consuming and may even be prohibited by law in specific environments. On the other hand, synthetic data is fast and cheap to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Benjamin Kiefer , David Ott , Andreas Zell

To address the challenges in UAV object detection, such as complex backgrounds, severe occlusion, dense small objects, and varying lighting conditions,this paper proposes PT-DETR based on RT-DETR, a novel detection algorithm specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Bingcong Huo , Zhiming Wang

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

With the advancement of collaborative perception, the role of aerial-ground collaborative perception, a crucial component, is becoming increasingly important. The demand for collaborative perception across different perspectives to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yuchao Wang , Peirui Cheng , Pengju Tian , Ziyang Yuan , Liangjin Zhao , Jing Tian , Wensheng Wang , Zhirui Wang , Xian Sun

This paper presents a lightweight and energy-efficient object detection solution for aerial imagery captured during emergency response situations. We focus on deploying the YOLOv4-Tiny model, a compact convolutional neural network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Sindhu Boddu , Arindam Mukherjee

Visual inspections of bridges are critical to ensure their safety and identify potential failures early. This inspection process can be rapidly and accurately automated by using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) integrated with deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Trong-Nhan Phan , Hoang-Hai Nguyen , Thi-Thu-Hien Ha , Huy-Tan Thai , Kim-Hung Le

The main challenge for small object detection algorithms is to ensure accuracy while pursuing real-time performance. The RT-DETR model performs well in real-time object detection, but performs poorly in small object detection accuracy. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ji Huang , Hui Wang

Open-set detection is crucial for robust UAV autonomy in air-to-air object detection under real-world conditions. Traditional closed-set detectors degrade significantly under domain shifts and flight data corruption, posing risks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Spyridon Loukovitis , Anastasios Arsenos , Vasileios Karampinis , Athanasios Voulodimos

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…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are known for their fast and versatile applicability. With UAVs' growth in availability and applications, they are now of vital importance in serving as technological support in search-and-rescue(SAR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xiaomin Lin , Cheng Liu , Allen Pattillo , Miao Yu , Yiannis Aloimonous

Radars, due to their robustness to adverse weather conditions and ability to measure object motions, have served in autonomous driving and intelligent agents for years. However, Radar-based perception suffers from its unintuitive sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Liu Liu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Zhenhua Du , Li Liu , Xinyu Zhang , Kai Huo , Weidong Jiang

Object detection is crucial for Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) to perceive their surroundings and make safe driving decisions. Centralized training of object detection models often achieves promising accuracy, fast convergence, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Komala Subramanyam Cherukuri , Kewei Sha , Zhenhua Huang

Most recent UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) detectors focus primarily on general challenge such as uneven distribution and occlusion. However, the neglect of scale challenges, which encompass scale variation and small objects, continues to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Xuexue Li

Motivated by the advances in deep learning techniques, the application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based object detection has proliferated across a range of fields, including vehicle counting, fire detection, and city monitoring. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Jiashun Suo , Xingzhou Zhang , Weisong Shi , Wei Zhou

Although convolutional neural networks have made outstanding achievements in visible light target detection, there are still many challenges in infrared small object detection because of the low signal-to-noise ratio, incomplete object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Zhonglin Chen , Anyu Geng , Jianan Jiang , Jiwu Lu , Di Wu

Head detection provides distribution information of pedestrian, which is crucial for scene statistical analysis, traffic management, and risk assessment and early warning. However, scene complexity and large-scale variation in the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jiezhou Chen , Guankun Wang , Weixiang Liu , Xiaopin Zhong , Yibin Tian , ZongZe Wu

This paper introduces a novel approach to video object detection detection and tracking on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). By incorporating metadata, the proposed approach creates a memory map of object locations in actual world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Benjamin Kiefer , Yitong Quan , Andreas Zell

Video camouflaged object detection (VCOD) is challenging due to dynamic environments. Existing methods face two main issues: (1) SAM-based methods struggle to separate camouflaged object edges due to model freezing, and (2) MLLM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Hua Zhang , Changjiang Luo , Ruoyu Chen