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The diffusion of drones presents significant security and safety challenges. Traditional surveillance systems, particularly conventional frame-based cameras, struggle to reliably detect these targets due to their small size, high agility,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Gabriele Magrini , Lorenzo Berlincioni , Luca Cultrera , Federico Becattini , Pietro Pala

Robustness against real-world distribution shifts is crucial for the successful deployment of object detection models in practical applications. In this paper, we address the problem of assessing and enhancing the robustness of object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Nilantha Premakumara , Brian Jalaian , Niranjan Suri , Hooman Samani

Drone detection in visually complex environments remains challenging due to background clutter, small object scale, and camouflage effects. While generic object detectors like YOLO exhibit strong performance in low-texture scenes, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tamara R. Lenhard , Andreas Weinmann , Tobias Koch

Tracking small, agile multi-objects (SMOT), such as birds, from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) perspective is a highly challenging computer vision task. The difficulty stems from three main sources: the extreme scarcity of target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xiang Yu , Xinyao Liu , Guang Liang

With the widespread adoption of machine learning technologies in autonomous driving systems, their role in addressing complex environmental perception challenges has become increasingly crucial. However, existing machine learning models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Lida Xu

Collaborative trajectory prediction can comprehensively forecast the future motion of objects through multi-view complementary information. However, it encounters two main challenges in multi-drone collaboration settings. The expansive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zhechao Wang , Peirui Cheng , Mingxin Chen , Pengju Tian , Zhirui Wang , Xinming Li , Xue Yang , Xian Sun

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), specifically drones equipped with remote sensing object detection technology, have rapidly gained a broad spectrum of applications and emerged as one of the primary research focuses in the field of computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Li Zhu , Jiahui Xiong , Feng Xiong , Hanzheng Hu , Zhengnan Jiang

Swarms of drones offer an increased sensing aperture, and having them mimic behaviors of natural swarms enhances sampling by adapting the aperture to local conditions. We demonstrate that such an approach makes detecting and tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Rakesh John Amala Arokia Nathan , Sigrid Strand , Daniel Mehrwald , Dmitriy Shutin , Oliver Bimber

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

Drones, or general UAVs, equipped with cameras have been fast deployed with a wide range of applications, including agriculture, aerial photography, and surveillance. Consequently, automatic understanding of visual data collected from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Pengfei Zhu , Longyin Wen , Dawei Du , Xiao Bian , Heng Fan , Qinghua Hu , Haibin Ling

In modern warfare, drones are becoming an essential part of intelligence gathering and carrying out precise attacks in different kinds of hostile environments. Their ability to operate in real-time and hostile environments from a safe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Sourov Roy Shuvo , Prajwal Panth , Rajesh Chowdhury , Sorup Chakraborty , Sudip Chakrabarty , Prasant Kumar Pattnaik

We demonstrate how efficient autonomous drone swarms can be in detecting and tracking occluded targets in densely forested areas, such as lost people during search and rescue missions. Exploration and optimization of local viewing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Rakesh John Amala Arokia Nathan , Indrajit Kurmi , Oliver Bimber

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

Object detection has been used in a wide range of industries. For example, in autonomous driving, the task of object detection is to accurately and efficiently identify and locate a large number of predefined classes of object instances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Tianhao Lin

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 multi-target tracking and detection tasks, it is necessary to continuously track multiple targets, such as vehicles, pedestrians, etc. To achieve this goal, the system must be able to continuously acquire and process image frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Dayong Liu , Qingrui Zhang , Zeyang Meng

We propose a novel approach to synthesizing images that are effective for training object detectors. Starting from a small set of real images, our algorithm estimates the rendering parameters required to synthesize similar images given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Artem Rozantsev , Vincent Lepetit , Pascal Fua

This work considers the problem of intercepting rogue drones targeting sensitive critical infrastructure facilities. While current interception technologies focus mainly on the jamming/spoofing tasks, the challenges of effectively locating…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Panayiota Valianti , Kleanthis Malialis , Panayiotis Kolios , Georgios Ellinas

Relative state estimation is crucial for vision-based swarms to estimate and compensate for the unavoidable drift of visual odometry. For autonomous drones equipped with the most compact sensor setting -- a stereo camera that provides a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Lianjie Guo , Zaitian Gongye , Ziyi Xu , Yingjian Wang , Xin Zhou , Jinni Zhou , Fei Gao

This paper proposes a data augmentation method for improving the robustness of driving object detectors against domain shift. Domain shift problem arises when there is a significant change between the distribution of the source data domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Le-Anh Tran , Chung Nguyen Tran , Dong-Chul Park , Jordi Carrabina , David Castells-Rufas