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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly popular in recent years due to their versatility and affordability. This article provides an overview of the history and development of UAVs, as well as their current and potential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-27 S. M. Riazul Islam

An onboard target detection, tracking and avoidance system has been developed in this paper, for low-cost UAV flight controllers using AI-Based approaches. The aim of the proposed system is that an ally UAV can either avoid or track an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Vinorth Varatharasan , Alice Shuang Shuang Rao , Eric Toutounji , Ju-Hyeon Hong , Hyo-Sang Shin

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

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) detection and aerial object recognition are critical for modern surveillance and security, prompting a need for robust systems that overcome limitations of single-modality approaches. This research addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Mauro Larrat , Claudomiro Sales

This technical report presents the 1st winning model for UG2+, a task in CVPR 2024 UAV Tracking and Pose-Estimation Challenge. This challenge faces difficulties in drone detection, UAV-type classification and 2D/3D trajectory estimation in…

LiDAR has become one of the primary sensors in robotics and autonomous system for high-accuracy situational awareness. In recent years, multi-modal LiDAR systems emerged, and among them, LiDAR-as-a-camera sensors provide not only 3D point…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Ha Sier , Xianjia Yu , Iacopo Catalano , Jorge Pena Queralta , Zhuo Zou , Tomi Westerlund

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

This paper discusses the challenges of detecting and categorizing small drones with radar automatic target recognition (ATR) technology. The authors suggest integrating ATR capabilities into drone detection radar systems to improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Jiangkun Gong , Jun Yan , Deyong Kong , Deren Li

In this paper, we address the vision-based detection and tracking problems of multiple aerial vehicles using a single camera and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) as well as the corresponding perception consensus problem (i.e., uniqueness and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Rundong Ge , Moonyoung Lee , Vivek Radhakrishnan , Yang Zhou , Guanrui Li , Giuseppe Loianno

Drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become a reliable and efficient tool for road traffic monitoring. Compared to loop detectors and bluetooth receivers (with high capital and operational expenditure), drones are a low-cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Chrystalleni Christodoulou , Panayiotis Kolios

With the increasing use of drones across various industries, the navigation and tracking of these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in challenging environments (such as GNSS-denied environments) have become critical issues. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Iacopo Catalano , Ha Sier , Xianjia Yu , Tomi Westerlund , Jorge Pena Queralta

The task of UAV-view geo-localization is to estimate the localization of a query satellite/drone image by matching it against a reference dataset consisting of drone/satellite images. Though tremendous strides have been made in feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Jie Shao , LingHao Jiang

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

With the advantage of high mobility, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used to fuel numerous important applications in computer vision, delivering more efficiency and convenience than surveillance cameras with fixed camera angle, scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Dawei Du , Yuankai Qi , Hongyang Yu , Yifan Yang , Kaiwen Duan , Guorong Li , Weigang Zhang , Qingming Huang , Qi Tian

The emerging, practical and observed issue of how to detect rogue drones that carry terrestrial user equipment (UEs) on mobile networks is addressed in this paper. This issue has drawn much attention since the rogue drones may generate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Henrik Rydén , Sakib Bin Redhwan , Xingqin Lin

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is becoming increasingly important in modern civilian and military applications. However, its novel use cases is bottlenecked by conventional satellite and terrestrial localization technologies, and calling for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Bin Han , Hans D. Schotten

The rapid emergence of airborne platforms and imaging sensors are enabling new forms of aerial surveillance due to their unprecedented advantages in scale, mobility, deployment and covert observation capabilities. This paper provides a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Kien Nguyen , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan , Yingli Tian , Feng Liu , Xiaoming Liu , Arun Ross

Despite the growing number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and aerial videos, there is a paucity of studies focusing on the aesthetics of aerial videos that can provide valuable information for improving the aesthetic quality of aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Qi Kuang , Xin Jin , Qinping Zhao , Bin Zhou

Object detection from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is of great importance in many aerial vision-based applications. Despite the great success of generic object detection methods, a significant performance drop is observed when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Benjamin Kiefer , Martin Messmer , Andreas Zell

Compact UAV systems, while advancing delivery and surveillance, pose significant security challenges due to their small size, which hinders detection by traditional methods. This paper presents a cost-effective, unsupervised UAV detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hanfang Liang , Yizhuo Yang , Jinming Hu , Jianfei Yang , Fen Liu , Shenghai Yuan