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With the advancement of maritime unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and deep learning technologies, the application of UAV-based object detection has become increasingly significant in the fields of maritime industry and ocean engineering.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Chenjie Zhao , Ryan Wen Liu , Jingxiang Qu , Ruobin Gao

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are frequently used for aerial mapping and general monitoring tasks. Recent progress in deep learning enabled automated semantic segmentation of imagery to facilitate the interpretation of large-scale complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Julius Rückin , Federico Magistri , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

The rapid movements and agile maneuvers of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) induce significant observational challenges for multi-object tracking (MOT). However, existing UAV-perspective MOT benchmarks often lack these complexities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jingtao Ye , Kexin Zhang , Xunchi Ma , Yuehan Li , Guangming Zhu , Peiyi Shen , Linhua Jiang , Xiangdong Zhang , Liang Zhang

In low altitude UAV communications, accurate channel estimation remains challenging due to the dynamic nature of air to ground links, exacerbated by high node mobility and the use of large scale antenna arrays, which introduce hybrid near…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Wenli Yuan , Kan Yu , Xiaowu Liu , Kaixuan Li , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng

Accurate localization of maritime targets by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) remains challenging in GPS-denied environments. UAVs equipped with gimballed electro-optical sensors are typically used to localize targets, however, reliance on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Alfonso Sciacchitano , Liraz Mudrik , Sean Kragelund , Isaac Kaminer

Due to its agile maneuverability, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have shown great promise for ondemand communications. In practice, UAV-aided aerial base stations are not separate. Instead, they rely on existing satellites/terrestrial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Xiangling Li , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Ning Ge

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) became very popular in a vast number of applications in recent years, especially drones with computer vision functions enabled by on-board cameras and embedded systems. Many of them apply object detection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-15 Diego Dantas , Carnot Braun , Kaio Forte , Flavio Brito , Andrey Silva , Silvia Lins , Neiva Linder , Aldebaro Klautau

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are one of the most revolutionary inventions of 21st century. At the core of a UAV lies the central processing system that uses wireless signals to control their movement. The most popular UAVs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Mohit Arora , Pratyush Shukla , Shivali Chopra

Vision-based localization approaches now underpin newly emerging navigation pipelines for myriad use cases from robotics to assistive technologies. Compared to sensor-based solutions, vision-based localization does not require pre-installed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Anbang Yang , Mahya Beheshti , Todd E Hudson , Rajesh Vedanthan , Wachara Riewpaiboon , Pattanasak Mongkolwat , Chen Feng , John-Ross Rizzo

Visual detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a critical task in surveillance systems due to their small physical size and environmental challenges. Although deep learning models have achieved significant progress, deploying them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Amir Zamani , Zeinab Abedini

With substantial recent developments in aviation technologies, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly integrated in commercial and military operations internationally. Research into the applications of aircraft data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Victoria Bell1 , Divish Rengasamy , Benjamin Rothwell , Grazziela P Figueredo

Retrieving relevant multimedia content is one of the main problems in a world that is increasingly data-driven. With the proliferation of drones, high quality aerial footage is now available to a wide audience for the first time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Fabian Deuser , Konrad Habel , Martin Werner , Norbert Oswald

In this work we consider UAVs as cooperative agents supporting human users in their operations. In this context, the 3D localisation of the UAV assistant is an important task that can facilitate the exchange of spatial information between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Georgios Albanis , Nikolaos Zioulis , Anastasios Dimou , Dimitrios Zarpalas , Petros Daras

Distance estimation plays an important role for path planning and collision avoidance of swarm UAVs. However, the lack of annotated data seriously hinders the related studies. In this work, we build and present a UAVDE dataset for UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jiafan Zhuang , Duan Yuan , Rihong Yan , Weixin Huang , Wenji Li , Zhun Fan

This paper introduces MILUV, a Multi-UAV Indoor Localization dataset with UWB and Vision measurements. This dataset comprises 217 minutes of flight time over 36 experiments using three quadcopters, collecting ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging…

The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has created urgent demand for precise UAV monitoring. Existing RGB-based systems rely on spatial cues that degrade at small scales, particularly with high inter-type similarity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yihang Luo , Jun Chen , Chao Xiao , Yingqian Wang , Zhaoxu Li , Qiang Ling , Xu He , Nuo Chen , Gaowei Guo , Hongge Li , Miao Li , Longguang Wang , Yulan Guo , Li Liu , Wei An , Zhijie Chen

Synthetic datasets are beneficial for machine learning researchers due to the possibility of experimenting with new strategies and algorithms in the training and testing phases. These datasets can easily include more scenarios that might be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Joseanne Viana , Hamed Farkhari , Pedro Sebastiao , Sandra Lagen , Katerina Koutlia , Biljana Bojovic , Rui Dinis

Recent advances in satellite and communication technologies have significantly improved geographical information and monitoring systems. Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Osman Tokluoglu , Mustafa Ozturk

Precise geolocalization is crucial for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, most current deployed UAVs rely on the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) or high precision inertial navigation systems (INS) for geolocalization. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Jun Mao , Lilian Zhang , Xiaofeng He , Hao Qu , Xiaoping Hu

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have been deployed for underwater exploration. However, its potential is confined by its limited on-board battery energy and data storage capacity. This problem has been addressed using docking systems…

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