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For real-world applications, autonomous mobile robotic platforms must be capable of navigating safely in a multitude of different and dynamic environments with accurate and robust localization being a key prerequisite. To support further…

The advancement of autonomous drones, essential for sectors such as remote sensing and emergency services, is hindered by the absence of training datasets that fully capture the environmental challenges present in real-world scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Benedikt Kolbeinsson , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Localizing ground devices (GDs) is an important requirement for a wide variety of applications, such as infrastructure monitoring, precision agriculture, search and rescue operations, to name a few. To this end, unmanned aerial vehicles…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Francesco Betti Sorbelli , Cristina M. Pinotti , Simone Silvestri , Sajal K. Das

Swarms of drones are being more and more used in many practical scenarios, such as surveillance, environmental monitoring, search and rescue in hardly-accessible areas, etc.. While a single drone can be guided by a human operator, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Claudio Piciarelli , Gian Luca Foresti

Drone detection is the problem of finding the smallest rectangle that encloses the drone(s) in a video sequence. In this study, we propose a solution using an end-to-end object detection model based on convolutional neural networks. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Cemal Aker , Sinan Kalkan

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are indispensable for infrastructure inspection, surveillance, and related tasks, yet they also introduce critical security challenges. This survey provides a wide-ranging examination of the anti-UAV domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yifei Dong , Fengyi Wu , Sanjian Zhang , Guangyu Chen , Yuzhi Hu , Masumi Yano , Jingdong Sun , Siyu Huang , Feng Liu , Qi Dai , Zhi-Qi Cheng

The high incidence of oil spills in port areas poses a serious threat to the environment, prompting the need for efficient detection mechanisms. Utilizing automated drones for this purpose can significantly improve the speed and accuracy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 T. De Kerf , S. Sels , S. Samsonova , S. Vanlanduit

A drone monitoring system that integrates deep-learning-based detection and tracking modules is proposed in this work. The biggest challenge in adopting deep learning methods for drone detection is the limited amount of training drone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Yueru Chen , Pranav Aggarwal , Jongmoo Choi , C. -C. Jay Kuo

In this paper, we address the vision-based detection and tracking problems of multiple aerial vehicles using a single camera and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) as well as the corresponding perception consensus problem (i.e., uniqueness and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Rundong Ge , Moonyoung Lee , Vivek Radhakrishnan , Yang Zhou , Guanrui Li , Giuseppe Loianno

Drone-based vehicle detection aims at finding the vehicle locations and categories in an aerial image. It empowers smart city traffic management and disaster rescue. Researchers have made mount of efforts in this area and achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Yiming Sun , Bing Cao , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu

Airplane detection from satellite imagery is a challenging task due to the complex backgrounds in the images and differences in data acquisition conditions caused by the sensor geometry and atmospheric effects. Deep learning methods provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Tolga Bakirman , Elif Sertel

Detecting Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in low-altitude environments is essential for perception and defense systems but remains highly challenging due to complex backgrounds, camouflage, and multimodal interference. In real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shenghui Huang , Menghao Hu , Longkun Zou , Hongyu Chi , Zekai Li , Feng Gao , Fan Yang , Qingyao Wu , Ke Chen

In recent years, the technological improvements of low-cost small-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are promoting an ever-increasing use of them in different tasks. In particular, the use of small-scale UAVs is useful in all these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Danilo Avola , Gian Luca Foresti , Niki Martinel , Daniele Pannone , Claudio Piciarelli

Reliable drone detection is challenging due to limited annotated real-world data, large appearance variability, and the presence of visually similar distractors such as birds. To address these challenges, this paper introduces SimD3, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ami Pandat , Kanyala Muvva , Punna Rajasekhar , Gopika Vinod , Rohit Shukla

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely applied for purposes of inspection, search, and rescue operations by the virtue of low-cost, large-coverage, real-time, and high-resolution data acquisition capacities. Massive volumes of aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Pu Jin , Lichao Mou , Gui-Song Xia , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Traffic forecasting is a fundamental task in transportation research, however the scope of current research has mainly focused on a single data modality of loop detectors. Recently, the advances in Artificial Intelligence and drone…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Weijiang Xiong , Robert Fonod , Alexandre Alahi , Nikolas Geroliminis

Reliable deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in cluttered unknown environments requires accurate sensors for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied localization and obstacle avoidance. Such a requirement limits the usage…

The increasing popularity of autonomous and remotely-piloted drones have paved the way for several use-cases, e.g., merchandise delivery and surveillance. In many scenarios, estimating with zero-touch the weight of the payload carried by a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Omar Adel Ibrahim , Savio Sciancalepore , Roberto Di Pietro

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in many areas, including transportation, surveillance, and military. However, their potential for safety and privacy violations is an increasing issue and highly limits their broader…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Xue-Feng Zhu , Tianyang Xu , Jian Zhao , Jia-Wei Liu , Kai Wang , Gang Wang , Jianan Li , Qiang Wang , Lei Jin , Zheng Zhu , Junliang Xing , Xiao-Jun Wu

Modern machine learning techniques have shown tremendous potential, especially for object detection on camera images. For this reason, they are also used to enable safety-critical automated processes such as autonomous drone flights. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Jonathan Lyhs , Lars Hinneburg , Michael Fischer , Florian Ölsner , Stefan Milz , Jeremy Tschirner , Patrick Mäder