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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used for object detection. However, the existing UAV-based object detection systems are subject to the serious challenge, namely, the finite computation, energy and communication resources, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Xi Song , Lu Yuan , Zhibo Qu , Fuhui Zhou , Qihui Wu , Tony Q. S. Quek , Rose Qingyang Hu

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

Detection of objects in cluttered indoor environments is one of the key enabling functionalities for service robots. The best performing object detection approaches in computer vision exploit deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Georgios Georgakis , Arsalan Mousavian , Alexander C. Berg , Jana Kosecka

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imaging is a suitable solution for real-time monitoring different vehicles on the urban scale. Real-time vehicle detection with the use of uncertainty estimation in deep meta-learning for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Mehdi Khoshboresh-Masouleh , Reza Shah-Hosseini

Object detection and classification for aircraft are the most important tasks in the satellite image analysis. The success of modern detection and classification methods has been based on machine learning and deep learning. One of the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Junghoon Seo , Seunghyun Jeon , Taegyun Jeon

The capabilities of autonomous flight with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have significantly increased in recent times. However, basic problems such as fast and robust geo-localization in GPS-denied environments still remain unsolved.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Shuxiao Chen , Xiangyu Wu , Mark W. Mueller , Koushil Sreenath

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) rely on satellite systems for stable positioning. However, due to limited satellite coverage or communication disruptions, UAVs may lose signals from satellite-based positioning systems. In such situations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Ming Dai , Enhui Zheng , Zhenhua Feng , Jiedong Zhuang , Wankou Yang

It is important to find the target as soon as possible for search and rescue operations. Surveillance camera systems and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used to support search and rescue. Automatic object detection is important because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Kyongsik Yun , Luan Nguyen , Tuan Nguyen , Doyoung Kim , Sarah Eldin , Alexander Huyen , Thomas Lu , Edward Chow

Limited real-world data severely impacts model performance in many computer vision domains, particularly for samples that are underrepresented in training. Synthetically generated images are a promising solution, but 1) it remains unclear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Nitish Mital , Simon Malzard , Richard Walters , Celso M. De Melo , Raghuveer Rao , Victoria Nockles

We present a system for training deep neural networks for object detection using synthetic images. To handle the variability in real-world data, the system relies upon the technique of domain randomization, in which the parameters of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Jonathan Tremblay , Aayush Prakash , David Acuna , Mark Brophy , Varun Jampani , Cem Anil , Thang To , Eric Cameracci , Shaad Boochoon , Stan Birchfield

Precisely detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) plays a critical role in UAV defense systems. Deep learning is widely adopted for UAV object detection whereas researches on this topic are limited by the amount of dataset and small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Chen Rui , Guo Youwei , Zheng Huafei , Jiang Hongyu

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…

Over the past few years there has been major progress in the field of synthetic data generation using simulation based techniques. These methods use high-end graphics engines and physics-based ray-tracing rendering in order to represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Paul Yudkin , Eli Friedman , Orly Zvitia , Gil Elbaz

This paper explores the use of applying a deep learning approach for 3D object detection to compute the relative position of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) equipped with a LiDAR sensor in a GPS-denied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Uthman Olawoye , Jason N. Gross

We present the HIT-UAV dataset, a high-altitude infrared thermal dataset for object detection applications on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The dataset comprises 2,898 infrared thermal images extracted from 43,470 frames in hundreds of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Jiashun Suo , Tianyi Wang , Xingzhou Zhang , Haiyang Chen , Wei Zhou , Weisong Shi

There is an increased interest in the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for agriculture, military, disaster management and aerial photography around the world. UAVs are scalable, flexible and are useful in various environments where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Bapireddy Karri

The development of computer vision algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications in urban environments heavily relies on the availability of large-scale datasets with accurate annotations. However, collecting and annotating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Francesco Barbato , Matteo Caligiuri , Pietro Zanuttigh

Detecting vehicles in aerial imagery is a critical task with applications in traffic monitoring, urban planning, and defense intelligence. Deep learning methods have provided state-of-the-art (SOTA) results for this application. However, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xiao Fang , Minhyek Jeon , Zheyang Qin , Stanislav Panev , Celso de Melo , Shuowen Hu , Shayok Chakraborty , Fernando De la Torre

Using synthetic data for training deep neural networks for robotic manipulation holds the promise of an almost unlimited amount of pre-labeled training data, generated safely out of harm's way. One of the key challenges of synthetic data,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Jonathan Tremblay , Thang To , Balakumar Sundaralingam , Yu Xiang , Dieter Fox , Stan Birchfield

Learning-based solutions have enabled incredible capabilities for autonomous systems. Autonomous vehicles, both aerial and ground, rely on DNN for various integral tasks, including perception. The efficacy of supervised learning solutions…