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With the increasing use of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), it is critical to ensure that they are continuously tracked and controlled, especially when UAVs operate beyond the communication range of ground stations (GSs).…

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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…

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The development of the low-altitude economy has led to a growing prominence of uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) safety management issues. Therefore, accurate identification, real-time localization, and effective countermeasures have become…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Yi Tao , Zhen Gao , Fangquan Ye , Jingbo Xu , Tao Song , Weidong Li , Yu Su , Lu Peng , Xiaomei Wu , Tong Qin , Zhongxiang Li , Dezhi Zheng

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Juanqin Liu , Leonardo Plotegher , Eloy Roura , Shaoming He

Research in the field of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has significantly advanced in recent years, mainly due to their relevance in a large variety of commercial, industrial, and military applications. However, UAV navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Akkas Haque , Ahmed Elsaharti , Tarek Elderini , Mohamed Atef Elsaharty , Jeremiah Neubert

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are gaining popularity in civil and military applications. However, uncontrolled access to restricted areas threatens privacy and security. Thus, prevention and detection of UAVs are pivotal to guarantee…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jakub Mandula , Jonas Kühne , Luca Pascarella , Michele Magno

Reliable deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in cluttered unknown environments requires accurate sensors for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied localization and obstacle avoidance. Such a requirement limits the usage…

An innovative method of detecting Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is presented. The goal of this study is to develop a robust setup for an autonomous multi-rotor hunter UAV, capable of visually detecting and tracking the intruder UAVs for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-11 Maria N. Brunet , Guilherme Aramizo Ribeiro , Nina Mahmoudian , Mo Rastgaar

Owing to effective and flexible data acquisition, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has recently become a hotspot across the fields of computer vision (CV) and remote sensing (RS). Inspired by recent success of deep learning (DL), many advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xin Wu , Wei Li , Danfeng Hong , Ran Tao , Qian Du

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

With the rapid advancement of UAV technology and its extensive application in various fields such as military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, and logistics, achieving efficient and accurate Anti-UAV tracking has become essential.…

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In millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems, beamforming is needed to overcome harsh channel environments. As a promising beamforming solution, lens antenna array (LAA) implementation can provide a cost-effective solution without notable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Liza Afeef , Murat Karabacak , Hüseyin Arslan

Obstacle avoidance is a key feature for safe Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) navigation. While solutions have been proposed for static obstacle avoidance, systems enabling avoidance of dynamic objects, such as drones, are hard to implement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Adrian Carrio , Sai Vemprala , Andres Ripoll , Srikanth Saripalli , Pascual Campoy

Non-repetitive solid-state LiDAR scanning leads to an extremely sparse measurement regime for detecting airborne UAVs: a small quadrotor at 10-25 m typically produces only 1-2 returns per scan, which is far below the point densities assumed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Nivand Khosravi , Rodrigo Ventura , Meysam Basiri

Navigating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through cluttered and dynamic environments remains a significant challenge, particularly when dealing with fast-moving or sudden-appearing obstacles. This paper introduces a complete LiDAR-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Huajie Wu , Wenyi Liu , Yunfan Ren , Zheng Liu , Hairuo Wei , Fangcheng Zhu , Haotian Li , Fu Zhang

Autonomous tracking of flying aerial objects has important civilian and defense applications, ranging from search and rescue to counter-unmanned aerial systems (counter-UAS). Ground based tracking requires setting up infrastructure, could…

Infrastructure-based sensing and real-time trajectory generation show promise for improving safety in high-risk roadway segments such as work zones, yet practical deployments are hindered by perspective distortion, complex geometry,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Suhala Rabab Saba , Sakib Khan , Minhaj Uddin Ahmad , Jiahe Cao , Mizanur Rahman , Li Zhao , Nathan Huynh , Eren Erman Ozguven

This paper addresses the issues of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) indoor navigation, specifically in areas where GPS and magnetometer sensor measurements are unavailable or unreliable. The proposed solution is to use an error state extended…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Lovro Markovic , Marin Kovac , Robert Milijas , Marko Car , Stjepan Bogdan

Multi-object tracking (MOT) from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents unique challenges due to unpredictable object motion, frequent occlusions, and limited appearance cues inherent to aerial viewpoints. These issues are further…

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Single visual object tracking from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) poses fundamental challenges such as object occlusion, small-scale objects, background clutter, and abrupt camera motion. To tackle these difficulties, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Stéphane Vujasinović , Stefan Becker , Timo Breuer , Sebastian Bullinger , Norbert Scherer-Negenborn , Michael Arens