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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), have intrigued different people from all walks of life, because of their pervasive computing capabilities. UAV equipped with vision techniques, could be leveraged to establish navigation autonomous control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Xiaoliang Wang , Peng Cheng , Xinchuan Liu , Benedict Uzochukwu

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have been widely used in various fields, and their invasion of security and privacy has aroused social concern. Several detection and tracking systems for UAVs have been introduced in recent years, but most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Jie Zhao , Jingshu Zhang , Dongdong Li , Dong Wang

Stereo matching is a fundamental task for 3D scene reconstruction. Recently, deep learning based methods have proven effective on some benchmark datasets, such as KITTI and Scene Flow. UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are commonly utilized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhang Xiaoyi , Cao Xuefeng , Yu Anzhu , Yu Wenshuai , Li Zhenqi , Quan Yujun

Accurate indoor positioning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is critical for logistics, surveillance, and emergency response applications, particularly in GPS-denied environments. Existing indoor localization methods, including optical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Cunyi Yin , Chenwei Wang , Jing Chen , Hao Jiang , Xiren Miao , Shaocong Zheng Zhenghua Chen Senior , Hong Yan

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used platforms to carry data capturing sensors for various applications. The reason for this success can be found in many aspects: the high maneuverability of the UAVs, the capability of performing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Mehdi Maboudi , MohammadReza Homaei , Soohwan Song , Shirin Malihi , Mohammad Saadatseresht , Markus Gerke

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

As robotics technology advances, dense point cloud maps are increasingly in demand. However, dense reconstruction using a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) suffers from limitations in flight speed and battery power, resulting in slow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Yifei Dong , Shuhui Bu , Kun Li , Lin Chen , Zhenyu Xia , Yu Wang , Pengcheng Han , Xuefeng Cao , Ke Li

The remarkable growth of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has also sparked concerns about safety measures during their missions. To advance towards safer autonomous aerial robots, this work presents a vision-based solution to ensuring safe…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Phuoc Nguyen Thuan , Tomi Westerlund , Jorge Peña Queralta

UAVs have been widely used in visual inspections of buildings, bridges and other structures. In either outdoor autonomous or semi-autonomous flights missions strong GPS signal is vital for UAV to locate its own positions. However, strong…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Zhexiong Shang , Zhigang Shen

Online path planning for multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) systems is considered a challenging task. It needs to ensure collision-free path planning in real-time, especially when the multi-UAV systems can become very crowded on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Huaxing Huang , Guijie Zhu , Zhun Fan , Hao Zhai , Yuwei Cai , Ze Shi , Zhaohui Dong , Zhifeng Hao

Owing to effective and flexible data acquisition, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has recently become a hotspot across the fields of computer vision (CV) and remote sensing (RS). Inspired by recent success of deep learning (DL), many advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xin Wu , Wei Li , Danfeng Hong , Ran Tao , Qian Du

In this paper, we propose RFUAV as a new benchmark dataset for radio-frequency based (RF-based) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) identification and address the following challenges: Firstly, many existing datasets feature a restricted variety…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Rui Shi , Xiaodong Yu , Shengming Wang , Yijia Zhang , Lu Xu , Peng Pan , Chunlai Ma

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), equipped with cameras, are employed in numerous applications, including aerial photography, surveillance, and agriculture. In these applications, robust object detection and tracking are essential for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Hui Ye , Rajshekhar Sunderraman , Shihao Ji

In this paper, a simple technique for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) potential landing site detection using terrain information through identification of flat areas, is presented. The algorithm utilizes digital elevation models (DEM) that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Efstratios Kakaletsis , Nikos Nikolaidis

We present a novel control strategy for a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to autonomously achieve a desired formation using only visual feedback provided by the UAV's onboard cameras. This effectively eliminates the need for global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Kaveh Fathian , Emily Doucette , J. Willard Curtis , Nicholas R. Gans

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) learn representation from data with an impressive capability, and brought important breakthroughs for processing images, time-series, natural language, audio, video, and many others. In the remote sensing field,…

Recent advances in cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) methods have shown strong potential for supporting unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation in GNSS-denied environments. However, existing work predominantly focuses on matching UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kejia Liu , Haoyang Zhou , Ruoyu Xu , Peicheng Wang , Mingli Song , Haofei Zhang

The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) is increasingly central to the development of intelligent autonomous systems for applications such as search and rescue, environmental monitoring, and…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with high-resolution sensors enable extensive data collection from previously inaccessible areas at a remarkable spatio-temporal scale, promising to revolutionize fields such as precision agriculture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Harnaik Dhami