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Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images remains a highly challenging task, primarily caused by the complexity of background noise and the imbalance of target scales. Traditional methods easily struggle to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Wenfeng Zhang , Jun Ni , Yue Meng , Xiaodong Pei , Wei Hu , Qibing Qin , Lei Huang

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

Detecting Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in low-altitude environments is essential for perception and defense systems but remains highly challenging due to complex backgrounds, camouflage, and multimodal interference. In real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shenghui Huang , Menghao Hu , Longkun Zou , Hongyu Chi , Zekai Li , Feng Gao , Fan Yang , Qingyao Wu , Ke Chen

This paper addresses the problem of multi-object tracking in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) footage. It plays a critical role in various UAV applications, including traffic monitoring systems and real-time suspect tracking by the police.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 InPyo Song , Jangwon Lee

The extremes of lighting (e.g. too much or too little light) usually cause many troubles for machine and human vision. Many recent works have mainly focused on under-exposure cases where images are often captured in low-light conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Hue Nguyen , Diep Tran , Khoi Nguyen , Rang Nguyen

Hyperspectral cameras can provide unique spectral signatures for consistently distinguishing materials that can be used to solve surveillance tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel real-time hyperspectral likelihood maps-aided tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Burak Uzkent , Aneesh Rangnekar , M. J. Hoffman

Low light conditions significantly degrade Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) performance in critical applications. Existing Low-light Image Enhancement (LIE) methods struggle with the unique challenges of aerial imagery, including Ultra-High…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wei Lu , Lingyu Zhu , Si-Bao Chen

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking is critical for applications like surveillance, search-and-rescue, and autonomous navigation. However, the high-speed movement of UAVs and targets introduces unique challenges, including real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 You Wu , Xucheng Wang , Dan Zeng , Hengzhou Ye , Xiaolan Xie , Qijun Zhao , Shuiwang Li

Real-time transportation surveillance is an essential part of the intelligent transportation system (ITS). However, images captured under low-light conditions often suffer the poor visibility with types of degradation, such as noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Jingxiang Qu , Ryan Wen Liu , Yuan Gao , Yu Guo , Fenghua Zhu , Fei-yue Wang

With the growing demand for real-time video enhancement in live applications, existing methods often struggle to balance speed and effective exposure control, particularly under uneven lighting. We introduce RRNet (Rendering Relighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Wenlong Yang , Canran Jin , Weihang Yuan , Chao Wang , Lifeng Sun

Low-Light Image Enhancement is a computer vision task which intensifies the dark images to appropriate brightness. It can also be seen as an ill-posed problem in image restoration domain. With the success of deep neural networks, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Chi-Mao Fan , Tsung-Jung Liu , Kuan-Hsien Liu

Low-light image enhancement is challenging in that it needs to consider not only brightness recovery but also complex issues like color distortion and noise, which usually hide in the dark. Simply adjusting the brightness of a low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Feifan Lv , Yu Li , Feng Lu

Extracting useful visual cues for the downstream tasks is especially challenging under low-light vision. Prior works create enhanced representations by either correlating visual quality with machine perception or designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Goutham Kallempudi , Didier Stricker , Muhammamd Zeshan Afzal

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking is crucial for autonomous navigation and has broad applications in robotic automation fields. However, reliable UAV tracking remains a challenging task due to various difficulties like frequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Changhong Fu , Mutian Cai , Sihang Li , Kunhan Lu , Haobo Zuo , Chongjun Liu

In low-light environments like nighttime driving, image degradation severely challenges in-vehicle camera safety. Since existing enhancement algorithms are often too computationally intensive for vehicular applications, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yuhan Chen , Yicui Shi , Guofa Li , Guangrui Bai , Jinyuan Shao , Xiangfei Huang , Wenbo Chu , Keqiang Li

Illumination inconsistency is a fundamental challenge in multi-view 3D reconstruction. Variations in sunlight direction, cloud cover, and shadows break the constant-lighting assumption underlying both classical multi-view stereo (MVS) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kang Du , Xue Liao , Junpeng Xia , Chaozheng Guo , Yi Gu , Yirui Guan , Duotun Wang , Sheng Huang , Zeyu Wang

Low light conditions in aerial images adversely affect the performance of several vision based applications. There is a need for methods that can efficiently remove the low light attributes and assist in the performance of key vision tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Prateek Garg , Murari Mandal , Pratik Narang

State-of-the-art (SOTA) visual object tracking methods have significantly enhanced the autonomy of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, in low-light conditions, the presence of irregular real noise from the environments severely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yucheng Wang , Changhong Fu , Kunhan Lu , Liangliang Yao , Haobo Zuo

In recent years, several progressive works promote the development of aerial tracking. One of the representative works is our previous work Fast-tracker which is applicable to various challenging tracking scenarios. However, it suffers from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Neng Pan , Ruibin Zhang , Tiankai Yang , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Technological advancements have normalized the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in every sector, spanning from military to commercial but they also pose serious security concerns due to their enhanced functionalities and easy access…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Maham Misbah , Misha Urooj Khan , Zhaohui Yang , Zeeshan Kaleem