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The purpose of this work is to review the state-of-the-art LiDAR-based 3D object detection methods, datasets, and challenges. We describe novel data augmentation methods, sampling strategies, activation functions, attention mechanisms, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Walter Zimmer , Emec Ercelik , Xingcheng Zhou , Xavier Jair Diaz Ortiz , Alois Knoll

Regression-based LiDAR relocalization has recently emerged as a promising solution for high-precision positioning in GNSS-denied environments. However, these methods are primarily tailored to autonomous driving, exhibiting significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hengyu Mu , Jianshi Wu , Yuxin Guo , XianLian Lin , Qingyong Hu , Sheng Ao , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang

Nano-size unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) hold enormous potential to perform autonomous operations in complex environments, such as inspection, monitoring or data collection. Moreover, their small size allows safe operation close to humans…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Hanna Müller , Nicky Zimmerman , Tommaso Polonelli , Michele Magno , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss , Luca Benini

Now a days, UAVs such as drones are greatly used for various purposes like that of capturing and target detection from ariel imagery etc. Easy access of these small ariel vehicles to public can cause serious security threats. For instance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Aleena Ajaz , Ayesha Salar , Tauseef Jamal , Asif Ullah Khan

This work details the problem of aerial target capture using multiple UAVs. This problem is motivated from the challenge 1 of Mohammed Bin Zayed International Robotic Challenge 2020. The UAVs utilise visual feedback to autonomously detect…

Autonomous vehicles operate in a dynamic environment, where the speed with which a vehicle can perceive and react impacts the safety and efficacy of the system. LiDAR provides a prominent sensory modality that informs many existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Wei Han , Zhengdong Zhang , Benjamin Caine , Brandon Yang , Christoph Sprunk , Ouais Alsharif , Jiquan Ngiam , Vijay Vasudevan , Jonathon Shlens , Zhifeng Chen

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing images poses significant challenges due to unstable image quality, small object sizes, complex backgrounds, and environmental occlusions. Small objects, in particular, occupy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xudong Wang , Yaxin Peng , Chaomin Shen

In this paper, we present an on-board vision-based approach for avoidance of moving obstacles in dynamic environments. Our approach relies on an efficient obstacle detection and tracking algorithm based on depth image pairs, which provides…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Jiahao Lin , Hai Zhu , Javier Alonso-Mora

This paper proposes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based distributed sensing framework that uses orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms to detect the position of a ground target, and UAVs operate in half-duplex mode.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Xavier Alejandro Flores Cabezas , Diana Pamela Moya Osorio , Markku Juntti

In this paper, we propose a simple methodology to detect the partial pose of a human occupying the manipulator work-space using only on-robot time--of--flight laser ranging sensors. The sensors are affixed on each link of the robot in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Sarthak Arora , Shitij Kumar , Ferat Sahin

We present a robust real-time LiDAR 3D object detector that leverages heteroscedastic aleatoric uncertainties to significantly improve its detection performance. A multi-loss function is designed to incorporate uncertainty estimations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Di Feng , Lars Rosenbaum , Fabian Timm , Klaus Dietmayer

This survey offers a comprehensive overview of recent advancements in LiDAR-based autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), covering their design, perception, planning, and control strategies. Over the past decade, LiDAR technology has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yunfan Ren , Yixi Cai , Haotian Li , Nan Chen , Fangcheng Zhu , Longji Yin , Fanze Kong , Rundong Li , Fu Zhang

2D object proposals, quickly detected regions in an image that likely contain an object of interest, are an effective approach for improving the computational efficiency and accuracy of object detection in color images. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Ramanpreet Singh Pahwa , Jiangbo Lu , Nianjuan Jiang , Tian Tsong Ng , Minh N. Do

The goal of this paper is to classify objects mapped by LiDAR sensor into different classes such as vehicles, pedestrians and bikers. Utilizing a LiDAR-based object detector and Neural Networks-based classifier, a novel real-time object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Farzad Shafiei Dizaji

Environment modeling utilizing sensor data fusion and object tracking is crucial for safe automated driving. In recent years, the classical occupancy grid map approach, which assumes a static environment, has been extended to dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Christopher Diehl , Eduard Feicho , Alexander Schwambach , Thomas Dammeier , Eric Mares , Torsten Bertram

In this paper, we study the problem of unsupervised object detection from 3D point clouds in self-driving scenes. We present a simple yet effective method that exploits (i) point clustering in near-range areas where the point clouds are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Lunjun Zhang , Anqi Joyce Yang , Yuwen Xiong , Sergio Casas , Bin Yang , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

Autonomous radar has been an integral part of advanced driver assistance systems due to its robustness to adverse weather and various lighting conditions. Conventional automotive radars use digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Xu Dong , Pengluo Wang , Pengyue Zhang , Langechuan Liu

This paper focuses on a real-time vehicle detection and urban traffic behavior analysis system based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) traffic video. By using UAV to collect traffic data and combining the YOLOv8 model and SORT tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yuan Zhu , Yanqiang Wang , Yadong An , Hong Yang , Yiming Pan

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

Selecting safe landing sites in non-cooperative environments is a key step towards the full autonomy of UAVs. However, the existing methods have the common problems of poor generalization ability and robustness. Their performance in unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Lyujie Chen , Xiaming Yuan , Yao Xiao , Yiding Zhang , Jihong Zhu