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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

Aerial scene classification, which aims to automatically label an aerial image with a specific semantic category, is a fundamental problem for understanding high-resolution remote sensing imagery. In recent years, it has become an active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Gui-Song Xia , Jingwen Hu , Fan Hu , Baoguang Shi , Xiang Bai , Yanfei Zhong , Liangpei Zhang

Mathematical reasoning is critical for tasks such as precise distance and area computations, trajectory estimations, and spatial analysis in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based remote sensing, yet current vision-language models (VLMs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yue Zhou , Litong Feng , Mengcheng Lan , Xue Yang , Qingyun Li , Yiping Ke , Xue Jiang , Wayne Zhang

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

Navigation and localization of UAVs present a challenge when global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are disrupted and unreliable. Traditional techniques, such as simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and visual odometry (VO),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Haoling Li , Jiuniu Wang , Zhiwei Wei , Wenjia Xu

Many power line companies are using UAVs to perform their inspection processes instead of putting their workers at risk by making them climb high voltage power line towers, for instance. A crucial task for the inspection is to detect and…

Developing agents capable of navigating to a target location based on language instructions and visual information, known as vision-language navigation (VLN), has attracted widespread interest. Most research has focused on ground-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xiangyu Wang , Donglin Yang , Ziqin Wang , Hohin Kwan , Jinyu Chen , Wenjun Wu , Hongsheng Li , Yue Liao , Si Liu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play an increasingly critical role in Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions such as border patrolling and criminal detection, thanks to their ability to access remote areas and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Niloufar Mehrabi , Sayed Pedram Haeri Boroujeni , Jenna Hofseth , Abolfazl Razi , Long Cheng , Manveen Kaur , James Martin , Rahul Amin

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

This paper presents a novel image-based path planning algorithm that was developed using computer vision techniques, as well as its comparative analysis with well-known deterministic and probabilistic algorithms, namely A* and Probabilistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Selim Ahmet Iz , Mustafa Unel

In this paper, we investigate the problem of UAV-aided user localization in wireless networks. Unlike the existing works, we do not assume perfect knowledge of the UAV location, hence we not only need to localize the users but also to track…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Omid Esrafilian , Rajeev Gangula , David Gesbert

This paper considers the challenge of localizing ground users with the help of a radio-equipped unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that collects measurements from users. We utilize time-of-arrival (ToA) measurements estimated from the radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Omid Esrafilian , Rakesh Mundlamuri , Florian Kaltenberger , Raymond Knopp , David Gesbert

This paper offers openly available microscopic vehicle trajectory (MVT) datasets collected using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in heterogeneous, area-based urban traffic conditions. Traditional roadside video collection often fails in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yawar Ali , K. Ramachandra Rao , Ashish Bhaskar , Niladri Chatterjee

Cross-view geo-localization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied environments remains challenging due to the severe geometric discrepancy between oblique UAV imagery and orthogonal satellite maps. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Haoyuan Li , Wen Yang , Fang Xu , Hong Tan , Haijian Zhang , Shengyang Li , Gui-Song Xia

Visual place recognition (VPR) is critical in not only localization and mapping for autonomous driving vehicles, but also in assistive navigation for the visually impaired population. To enable a long-term VPR system on a large scale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Diwei Sheng , Yuxiang Chai , Xinru Li , Chen Feng , Jianzhe Lin , Claudio Silva , John-Ross Rizzo

Visual place recognition (VPR) enables autonomous robots to identify previously visited locations, which contributes to tasks like simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). VPR faces challenges such as accurate image neighbor retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Taiyi Pan , Junyang He , Chao Chen , Yiming Li , Chen Feng

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is vital for applications such as disaster response, logistics delivery, and urban inspection. However, existing methods often struggle with insufficient multimodal fusion,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hengxing Cai , Jinhan Dong , Jingjun Tan , Jingcheng Deng , Sihang Li , Zhifeng Gao , Haidong Wang , Zicheng Su , Agachai Sumalee , Renxin Zhong

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) can pose a major risk for aviation safety, due to both negligent and malicious use. For this reason, the automated detection and tracking of UAV is a fundamental task in aerial security systems. Common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Matt Poyser , Daniel Organisciak , Chris G. Willcocks , Toby P. Breckon , Hubert P. H. Shum

Recognizing places from an opposing viewpoint during a return trip is a common experience for human drivers. However, the analogous robotics capability, visual place recognition (VPR) with limited field of view cameras under 180 degree…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Spencer Carmichael , Rahul Agrawal , Ram Vasudevan , Katherine A. Skinner

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been considered for telecommunications purposes as relays, caches, or IoT data collectors. In addition to being easy to deploy, their maneuverability allows them to adjust their location…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Enes Krijestorac , Samer Hanna , Danijela Cabric