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Quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been developed and applied into several types of workplaces, such as warehouses, which usually involve human workers. The co-existence of human and UAVs brings new challenges to UAVs: potential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Wansong Liu , Zhu Chen , Minghui Zheng

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are considered cutting-edge technology with highly cost-effective and flexible usage scenarios. Although many papers have reviewed the application of UAVs in agriculture, the review of the application for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Weijie Kuang , Hann Woei Ho , Ye Zhou , Shahrel Azmin Suandi , Farzad Ismail

Due to the flexibility and low operational cost, dispatching unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to collect information from distributed sensors is expected to be a promising solution in Internet of Things (IoT), especially for time-critical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Mengjie Yi , Xijun Wang , Juan Liu , Yan Zhang , Bo Bai

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

Unmanned aerial vehicle object detection (UAV-OD) has been widely used in various scenarios. However, most existing UAV-OD algorithms rely on manually designed components, which require extensive tuning. End-to-end models that do not depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Huaxiang Zhang , Kai Liu , Zhongxue Gan , Guo-Niu Zhu

The existing Video Synthetic Aperture Radar (ViSAR) moving target shadow detection methods based on deep neural networks mostly generate numerous false alarms and missing detections, because of the foreground-background…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Zhenyu Yang , Xiaoling Zhang , Xu Zhan

A reliable communication network is essential for multiple UAVs operating within obstacle-cluttered environments, where limited communication due to obstructions often occurs. A common solution is to deploy intermediate UAVs to relay…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Yuda Chen , Shuaikang Wang , Jie Li , Meng Guo

In this paper, the problem of using one active unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and four passive UAVs to localize a 3D target UAV in real time is investigated. In the considered model, each passive UAV receives reflection signals from the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yujiao Zhu , Mingzhe Chen , Sihua Wang , Ye Hu , Yuchen Liu , Changchuan Yin

Object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) images poses significant challenges due to complex scale variations and class imbalance among objects. Existing methods often address these challenges separately, overlooking the intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhenteng Li , Sheng Lian , Dengfeng Pan , Youlin Wang , Wei Liu

Drone detection is the problem of finding the smallest rectangle that encloses the drone(s) in a video sequence. In this study, we propose a solution using an end-to-end object detection model based on convolutional neural networks. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Cemal Aker , Sinan Kalkan

In this paper, we developed the solution of roadside LiDAR object detection using a combination of two unsupervised learning algorithms. The 3D point clouds are firstly converted into spherical coordinates and filled into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Tianya Zhang , Peter J. Jin

The use of multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for search and rescue as well as remote sensing is rapidly increasing. Multi-rotor UAVs, however, have limited endurance. The range of UAV applications can be widened if teams of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Xiaolong Zhu , Fernando Vanegas , Felipe Gonzalez , Conrad Sanderson

Object detection is increasingly used onboard Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for various applications; however, the machine learning (ML) models for UAV-based detection are often validated using data curated for tasks unrelated to the UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Eung-Joo Lee , Damon M. Conover , Shuvra S. Bhattacharyyaa , Heesung Kwon , Jason Hill , Kenneth Evensen

Compact UAV systems, while advancing delivery and surveillance, pose significant security challenges due to their small size, which hinders detection by traditional methods. This paper presents a cost-effective, unsupervised UAV detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hanfang Liang , Yizhuo Yang , Jinming Hu , Jianfei Yang , Fen Liu , Shenghai Yuan

This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent advancements in image processing and deep learning techniques for pavement distress detection and classification, a critical aspect in modern pavement management systems. The conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Sizhe Guan , Haolan Liu , Hamid R. Pourreza , Hamidreza Mahyar

Accurate pathloss prediction is essential for the design and optimization of UAV-assisted millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks. While deep learning approaches have shown strong potential, their generalization across diverse environments,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Sajjad Hussain

Obstacle avoidance for small unmanned aircraft is vital for the safety of future urban air mobility (UAM) and Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM). There are many techniques for real-time robust drone guidance, but many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jueming Hu , Xuxi Yang , Weichang Wang , Peng Wei , Lei Ying , Yongming Liu

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

This paper describes preliminary work in the recent promising approach of generating synthetic training data for facilitating the learning procedure of deep learning (DL) models, with a focus on aerial photos produced by unmanned aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Andreas Kamilaris , Corjan van den Brink , Savvas Karatsiolis

Detection of small, undetermined moving objects or objects in an occluded environment with a cluttered background is the main problem of computer vision. This greatly affects the detection accuracy of deep learning models. To overcome these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Syed Muhammad Aamir , Hongbin Ma , Malak Abid Ali Khan , Muhammad Aaqib