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The extensive application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, and related domains has created an urgent need for accurate and efficient multi-object tracking (MOT) technologies, which are…

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This paper investigates the problem of traffic surveillance using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and proposes a domain-knowledge-aided airborne ground moving targets tracking algorithm. To improve the accuracy of multiple targets…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Jianduo Chai , Shaoming He , Hyo-Sang Shin

Multi-Camera Multi-Target Tracking (MCMT) is a computer vision technique that involves tracking multiple targets simultaneously across multiple cameras. MCMT in urban traffic visual analysis faces great challenges due to the complex and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Jincheng Lu , Xipeng Yang , Jin Ye , Yifu Zhang , Zhikang Zou , Wei Zhang , Xiao Tan

Numerous communications and networking challenges prevent deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in extreme environments where the existing wireless technologies are mainly ground-focused; and, as a consequence, the air-to-air channel…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Alireza Mohammadi , Mehdi Rahmati , Hafiz Malik

Unmanned aerial vehicles combined with computer vision systems, such as convolutional neural networks, offer a flexible and affordable solution for terrain monitoring, mapping, and detection tasks. However, a key challenge remains the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Hermann Blum , Silvan Rohrbach , Marija Popovic , Luca Bartolomei , Roland Siegwart

The widespread application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has raised serious public safety and privacy concerns, making UAV perception crucial for anti-UAV tasks. However, existing UAV tracking datasets predominantly feature conspicuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Bin Xie , Congxuan Zhang , Fagan Wang , Peng Liu , Feng Lu , Zhen Chen , Weiming Hu

The development of computer vision algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications in urban environments heavily relies on the availability of large-scale datasets with accurate annotations. However, collecting and annotating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Francesco Barbato , Matteo Caligiuri , Pietro Zanuttigh

This article proposes a new Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operation paradigm to enable a large number of relatively low-cost UAVs to fly beyond-line-of-sight without costly sensing and communication systems or substantial human intervention…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Santosh Devasia , Alexander Lee

Most previous progress in object tracking is realized in daytime scenes with favorable illumination. State-of-the-arts can hardly carry on their superiority at night so far, thereby considerably blocking the broadening of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Junjie Ye , Changhong Fu , Ziang Cao , Shan An , Guangze Zheng , Bowen Li

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) enabled by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a promising technology to facilitate target tracking applications. In contrast to conventional UAV-based ISAC system designs that mainly focus on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Yifan Jiang , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Kaitao Meng

In recent years, using a network of autonomous and cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) without command and communication from the ground station has become more imperative, in particular in search-and-rescue operations, disaster…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Han Peng , Abolfazl Razi , Fatemeh Afghah , Jonathan Ashdown

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) are emerging as a promising technology for both environmental and infrastructure monitoring, with broad use in a plethora of applications. Many such applications require the use of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Christos Kyrkou , George Plastiras , Stylianos Venieris , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

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

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in surveillance, logistics, agriculture, disaster management, and military operations. Accurate detection and classification of UAV flight states, such as hovering, cruising, ascending,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Haochen Liu , Jia Bi , Xiaomin Wang , Xin Yang , Ling Wang

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Data transport has attracted a lot of attention and applications, as a modern traffic engineering technique used in data sensing, transport, and delivery to where infrastructure is available for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Emmanuel Tuyishimire , Antoine Bagula , Slim Rekhis , Noureddine Boudriga

UAV tracking and pose estimation plays an imperative role in various UAV-related missions, such as formation control and anti-UAV measures. Accurately detecting and tracking UAVs in a 3D space remains a particularly challenging problem, as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jiaping Xiao , Phumrapee Pisutsin , Cheng Wen Tsao , Mir Feroskhan

In obstacle avoidance navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), variations in obstacle scale have received strangely less attention than obstacle number or density. Existing methods typically extract purely geometric features from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hong Hong , Feiyu Liao , Yongheng Liang , Boning Zhang , Haitao Wang , Hejun Wu

LiDAR-based place recognition (LPR) is one of the most crucial components of autonomous vehicles to identify previously visited places in GPS-denied environments. Most existing LPR methods use mundane representations of the input point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Junyi Ma , Guangming Xiong , Jingyi Xu , Xieyuanli Chen

Object detection from images captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is becoming increasingly useful. Despite the great success of the generic object detection methods trained on ground-to-ground images, a huge performance drop is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zhenyu Wu , Karthik Suresh , Priya Narayanan , Hongyu Xu , Heesung Kwon , Zhangyang Wang

The rise of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, as well as the vulnerability of the UAVs' sensors, has led to the need for proper monitoring systems for detecting any abnormal behavior of the UAV. This work addresses this problem by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Antreas Palamas , Nicolas Souli , Tania Panayiotou , Panayiotis Kolios , Georgios Ellinas