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This paper considers the problem of finding a landing spot for a drone in a dense urban environment. The conflicting requirement of fast exploration and high resolution is solved using a multi-resolution approach, by which visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Barak Pinkovich , Boaz Matalon , Ehud Rivlin , Hector Rotstein

The performance of deep learning based image super-resolution (SR) methods depend on how accurately the paired low and high resolution images for training characterize the sampling process of real cameras. Low and high resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Yanhui Guo , Xiaolin Wu , Xiao Shu

Drone detection has benefited from improvements in deep neural networks, but like many other applications, suffers from the availability of accurate data for training. Synthetic data provides a potential for low-cost data generation and has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Mariusz Wisniewski , Zeeshan A. Rana , Ivan Petrunin , Alan Holt , Stephen Harman

Super-resolution reconstruction (SRR) is a process aimed at enhancing spatial resolution of images, either from a single observation, based on the learned relation between low and high resolution, or from multiple images presenting the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Michal Kawulok , Pawel Benecki , Szymon Piechaczek , Krzysztof Hrynczenko , Daniel Kostrzewa , Jakub Nalepa

A drone monitoring system that integrates deep-learning-based detection and tracking modules is proposed in this work. The biggest challenge in adopting deep learning methods for drone detection is the limited amount of training drone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Yueru Chen , Pranav Aggarwal , Jongmoo Choi , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Although large scale models achieve significant improvements in performance, the overfitting challenge still frequently undermines their generalization ability. In super resolution tasks on images, diffusion models as representatives of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhipeng Weng , Xiaopeng Liu , Ce Liu , Xingyuan Guo , Yukai Shi , Liang Lin

Most existing super-resolution methods do not perform well in real scenarios due to lack of realistic training data and information loss of the model input. To solve the first problem, we propose a new pipeline to generate realistic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-30 Xiangyu Xu , Yongrui Ma , Wenxiu Sun

As airborne vehicles are becoming more autonomous and ubiquitous, it has become vital to develop the capability to detect the objects in their surroundings. This paper attempts to address the problem of drones detection from other flying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Muhammad Waseem Ashraf , Waqas Sultani , Mubarak Shah

With the rapid advancement of generative models, highly realistic image synthesis has posed new challenges to digital security and media credibility. Although AI-generated image detection methods have partially addressed these concerns, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Chunxiao Li , Xiaoxiao Wang , Meiling Li , Boming Miao , Peng Sun , Yunjian Zhang , Xiangyang Ji , Yao Zhu

Swarm robots have sparked remarkable developments across a range of fields. While it is necessary for various applications in swarm robots, a fast and robust coordinate initialization in vision-based drone swarms remains elusive. To this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yuan Li , Anke Zhao , Yingjian Wang , Ziyi Xu , Xin Zhou , Jinni Zhou , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Realistic image super-resolution (SR) focuses on transforming real-world low-resolution (LR) images into high-resolution (HR) ones, handling more complex degradation patterns than synthetic SR tasks. This is critical for applications like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Chaowei Fang , Bolin Fu , De Cheng , Lechao Cheng , Guanbin Li

The use of drones for aerial cinematography has revolutionized several applications and industries that require live and dynamic camera viewpoints such as entertainment, sports, and security. However, safely controlling a drone while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Rogerio Bonatti , Cherie Ho , Wenshan Wang , Sanjiban Choudhury , Sebastian Scherer

Swarms of drones are being more and more used in many practical scenarios, such as surveillance, environmental monitoring, search and rescue in hardly-accessible areas, etc.. While a single drone can be guided by a human operator, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Claudio Piciarelli , Gian Luca Foresti

Drone detection is a challenging object detection task where visibility conditions and quality of the images may be unfavorable, and detections might become difficult due to complex backgrounds, small visible objects, and hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ogulcan Eryuksel , Kamil Anil Ozfuttu , Fatih Cagatay Akyon , Kadir Sahin , Efe Buyukborekci , Devrim Cavusoglu , Sinan Altinuc

Herbage mass yield and composition estimation is an important tool for dairy farmers to ensure an adequate supply of high quality herbage for grazing and subsequently milk production. By accurately estimating herbage mass and composition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Paul Albert , Mohamed Saadeldin , Badri Narayanan , Jaime Fernandez , Brian Mac Namee , Deirdre Hennessey , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

Unsupervised change detection techniques are generally constrained to two multi-band optical images acquired at different times through sensors sharing the same spatial and spectral resolution. This scenario is suitable for a straight…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-10 Vinicius Ferraris , Nicolas Dobigeon , Marie Chabert

Depth maps captured with commodity sensors are often of low quality and resolution; these maps need to be enhanced to be used in many applications. State-of-the-art data-driven methods of depth map super-resolution rely on registered pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Aleksandr Safin , Maxim Kan , Nikita Drobyshev , Oleg Voynov , Alexey Artemov , Alexander Filippov , Denis Zorin , Evgeny Burnaev

Drones, or general UAVs, equipped with a single camera have been widely deployed to a broad range of applications, such as aerial photography, fast goods delivery and most importantly, surveillance. Despite the great progress achieved in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Haotian Zhang , Gaoang Wang , Zhichao Lei , Jenq-Neng Hwang

A vision-based drone-to-drone detection system is crucial for various applications like collision avoidance, countering hostile drones, and search-and-rescue operations. However, detecting drones presents unique challenges, including small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Sairam VC Rebbapragada , Pranoy Panda , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Automatic detection of flying drones is a key issue where its presence, especially if unauthorized, can create risky situations or compromise security. Here, we design and evaluate a multi-sensor drone detection system. In conjunction with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Fredrik Svanström , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Cristofer Englund