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The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network has gained significant attentions in recent years due to its various applications. However, the traffic security becomes the key threatening public safety issue in an emergency rescue system due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yulu Han , Ziye Jia , Sijie He , Yu Zhang , Qihui Wu

In recent years, consumer-grade UAVs have been widely adopted by first responders. In general, they are operated manually, which requires trained pilots, especially in unknown GNSS-denied environments and in the vicinity of structures.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Daniel Schleich , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

Research in the field of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has significantly advanced in recent years, mainly due to their relevance in a large variety of commercial, industrial, and military applications. However, UAV navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Akkas Haque , Ahmed Elsaharti , Tarek Elderini , Mohamed Atef Elsaharty , Jeremiah Neubert

In this paper we propose a novel 3D single-shot object detection method for detecting vehicles in monocular RGB images. Our approach lifts 2D detections to 3D space by predicting additional regression and classification parameters and hence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Nils Gählert , Jun-Jun Wan , Nicolas Jourdan , Jan Finkbeiner , Uwe Franke , Joachim Denzler

Accurate drone detection is strongly desired in drone collision avoidance, drone defense and autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) self-landing. With the recent emergence of the Vision Transformer (ViT), this critical task is reassessed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Junyang Zhang

This paper presents a review of techniques used for the detection and tracking of UAVs or drones. There are different techniques that depend on collecting measurements of the position, velocity, and image of the UAV and then using them in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Raed Abu Zitar , Mohammad Al-Betar , Mohamad Ryalat , Sofian Kassaymeh

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used due to their low cost and versatility, but they also pose security and privacy threats. Therefore, reliable detection for low-altitude UAVs is an important issue. The strong ground clutter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-25 Zeyang Wu , Wenbo Wang , Yuexing Peng

Landing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a ground marker is an open problem despite the effort of the research community. Previous attempts mostly focused on the analysis of hand-crafted geometric features and the use of external sensors…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Riccardo Polvara , Massimiliano Patacchiola , Sanjay Sharma , Jian Wan , Andrew Manning , Robert Sutton , Angelo Cangelosi

Full autonomy for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) requires the capability to autonomously detect potential landing sites in unknown and unstructured terrain, allowing for self-governed mission completion or handling of emergency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Timo Hinzmann , Thomas Stastny , Cesar Cadena , Roland Siegwart , Igor Gilitschenski

Our work is motivated by environmental monitoring tasks, where finding the global maxima (i.e., hotspot) of a spatially varying field is crucial. We investigate the problem of identifying the hotspot for fields that can be sensed using an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Yoonchang Sung , Deeksha Dixit , Pratap Tokekar

We propose a one-step person detector for topview omnidirectional indoor scenes based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). While state of the art person detectors reach competitive results on perspective images, missing CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Jingrui Yu , Roman Seidel , Gangolf Hirtz

With the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy, UAVs have become crucial for measurement and tracking in patrol systems. However, in GNSS-denied areas, satellite-based localization methods are prone to failure. This paper presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Tao Liu , Kan Ren , Qian Chen

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are expected to replace human in hazardous tasks of surface inspection due to their flexibility in operating space and capability of collecting high quality visual data. In this study, we propose enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Qiuchen Zhu , Manh Duong Phung , Quang Ha

While deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods have achieved unprecedented successes in a range of challenging problems, their applicability has been mainly limited to simulation or game domains due to the high sample complexity of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Siyi Li , Tianbo Liu , Chi Zhang , Dit-Yan Yeung , Shaojie Shen

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

Object tracking has been broadly applied in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tasks in recent years. However, existing algorithms still face difficulties such as partial occlusion, clutter background, and other challenging visual factors.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Yujie He , Changhong Fu , Fuling Lin , Yiming Li , Peng Lu

Learning to detect objects, such as humans, in imagery captured by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) usually suffers from tremendous variations caused by the UAV's position towards the objects. In addition, existing UAV-based benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yi-Ting Shen , Yaesop Lee , Heesung Kwon , Damon M. Conover , Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya , Nikolas Vale , Joshua D. Gray , G. Jeremy Leong , Kenneth Evensen , Frank Skirlo

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images remains a highly challenging task, primarily caused by the complexity of background noise and the imbalance of target scales. Traditional methods easily struggle to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Wenfeng Zhang , Jun Ni , Yue Meng , Xiaodong Pei , Wei Hu , Qibing Qin , Lei Huang

Quadcopters, as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have great potential in civil applications such as surveying, building monitoring, and infrastructure condition assessment. Quadcopters, however, are relatively sensitive to noises and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Van Truong Hoang , Ansu Man Singh , Manh Duong Phung , Quang Ha

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