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Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) opens venues for application such as tunnel inspection. Owing to its versatility to fly inside the tunnels, it can quickly identify defects and potential problems related to safety. However, long…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with mounted cameras have the advantage of capturing aerial (bird-view) images. The availability of aerial visual data and the recent advances in object detection algorithms led the computer vision community…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ilker Bozcan , Erdal Kayacan

We propose a novel method for geolocalizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in environments lacking Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Current state-of-the-art techniques employ an offline-trained encoder to generate a vector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Theo Di Piazza , Enric Meinhardt-Llopis , Gabriele Facciolo , Benedicte Bascle , Corentin Abgrall , Jean-Clement Devaux

With the proliferation of low altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), visual multi-object tracking is becoming a critical security technology, demanding significant robustness even in complex environmental conditions. However, tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Tianyang Xu , Jinjie Gu , Xuefeng Zhu , XiaoJun Wu , Josef Kittler

The task of UAV-view geo-localization is to estimate the localization of a query satellite/drone image by matching it against a reference dataset consisting of drone/satellite images. Though tremendous strides have been made in feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Jie Shao , LingHao Jiang

Autonomous landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in crowded scenarios is crucial for successful deployment of UAVs in populated areas, particularly in emergency landing situations where the highest priority is to avoid hurting people.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Javier González-Trejo , Diego Mercado-Ravell , Israel Becerra , Rafael Murrieta-Cid

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

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 vehicle (UAV) is becoming increasingly important in modern civilian and military applications. However, its novel use cases is bottlenecked by conventional satellite and terrestrial localization technologies, and calling for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Bin Han , Hans D. Schotten

We propose and demonstrate a fast, robust method for using satellite images to localize an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Previous work using satellite images has large storage and computation costs and is unable to run in real time. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Mollie Bianchi , Timothy D. Barfoot

The vision-based geo-localization technology for UAV, serving as a secondary source of GPS information in addition to the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), can still operate independently in the GPS-denied environment. Recent deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Yuxiang Ji , Boyong He , Zhuoyue Tan , Liaoni Wu

The autonomous real-time optical navigation of planetary UAV is of the key technologies to ensure the success of the exploration. In such a GPS denied environment, vision-based localization is an optimal approach. In this paper, we proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Xue Wan , Yuanbin Shao , Shengyang Li

The emerging global market for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) services is anticipated to reach USD 58.4 billion by 2026, spurring significant efforts to safely integrate routine UAV operations into the national airspace in a manner that they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jasmin Martin , Jenna Riseley , Jason J. Ford

In this work, we propose a new learning approach for autonomous navigation and landing of an Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle (UAV). We develop a multimodal fusion of deep neural architectures for visual-inertial odometry. We train the model in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Francesca Baldini , Animashree Anandkumar , Richard M. Murray

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication becomes a promising technique to realize the beyond fifth generation (5G) wireless networks, due to the high mobility and maneuverability of UAVs which can adapt to heterogeneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Chang Liu , Weijie Yuan , Zhiqiang Wei , Xuemeng Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

To address the ever-growing connectivity demands of wireless communications, the adoption of ingenious solutions, such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as mobile Base Stations (BSs), is imperative. In general, the location of a UAV Base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Ali Murat Demirtas , Mehmet Saygin Seyfioglu , Irem Bor-Yaliniz , Bulent Tavli , Halim Yanikomeroglu

The development of multi-modal learning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) typically relies on a large amount of pixel-aligned multi-modal image data. However, existing datasets face challenges such as limited modalities, high construction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Liang Yao , Fan Liu , Shengxiang Xu , Chuanyi Zhang , Xing Ma , Jianyu Jiang , Zequan Wang , Shimin Di , Jun Zhou

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming largely ubiquitous with an increasing demand for aerial data. Accurate navigation and localization, required for precise data collection in many industrial applications, often relies on RTK GNSS.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yu Xianjia , Li Qingqing , Jorge Pena Queralta , Jukka Heikkonen , Tomi Westerlund

Vision-based pose estimation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) in unknown environments is a rapidly growing research area in the field of robot vision. The task becomes more complex when the only available sensor is a static single camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Ram Prasad Padhy , Shahzad Ahmad , Sachin Verma , Pankaj Kumar Sa , Sambit Bakshi

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have recently shown great performance collecting visual data through autonomous exploration and mapping in building inspection. Yet, the number of studies is limited considering the post processing of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Fatih Kucuksubasi , Arzu Sorguc