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During about 30 years, a lot of research teams have worked on the big challenge of detection of moving objects in various challenging environments. First applications concern static cameras but with the rise of the mobile sensors studies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Marie-Neige Chapel , Thierry Bouwmans

Drones are becoming versatile in a myriad of applications. This has led to the use of drones for spying and intruding into the restricted or private air spaces. Such foul use of drone technology is dangerous for the safety and security of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Shivam Kainth , Subham Sahoo , Rajtilak Pal , Shashi Shekhar Jha

An important focus of current research in the field of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) is to increase the safety of their operation in general unstructured environments. Especially indoors, where GPS cannot be used for localization, reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-12 T. Holzmann , R. Prettenthaler , J. Pestana , D. Muschick , G. Graber , C. Mostegel , F. Fraundorfer , H. Bischof

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have revolutionized numerous application fields since their introduction. Alongside this, advancements in mechanics and electronics have simplified and decreased the cost of system design. As a consequence,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Tanay Kumar , Mangal Kothari

Gesture recognition presents a promising avenue for interfacing with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) due to its intuitive nature and potential for precise interaction. This research conducts a comprehensive comparative analysis of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Sousannah Abdalla , Sabur Baidya

As UAV technology improves, more uses have been found for these versatile autonomous vehicles, from surveillance to aerial photography, to package delivery, and each of these applications poses unique challenges. This paper implements a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Adarsh Salagame , Sushant Govindraj , S. N. Omkar

Over the last few years, the many uses of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have captured the interest of both the scientific and the industrial communities. A typical scenario consists in the use of UAVs for surveillance or target-search…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Federico Mason , Federico Chiariotti , Martina Capuzzo , Davide Magrin , Andrea Zanella , Michele Zorzi

Drones (also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, UAVs) is a potential source of evidence in a digital investigation, partly due to their increasing popularity in our society. However, existing UAV/drone forensics generally rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Alan Roder , Kim-Kwang Raymon Choo , Nhien-An Le-Khac

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in many areas, including transportation, surveillance, and military. However, their potential for safety and privacy violations is an increasing issue and highly limits their broader…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Xue-Feng Zhu , Tianyang Xu , Jian Zhao , Jia-Wei Liu , Kai Wang , Gang Wang , Jianan Li , Qiang Wang , Lei Jin , Zheng Zhu , Junliang Xing , Xiao-Jun Wu

There is a rapid growth of applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in traffic management, such as traffic surveillance, monitoring, and incident detection. However, the existing literature lacks solutions to real-time incident…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Hualong Tang , Joseph Post , Achilleas Kourtellis , Brian Porter , Yu Zhang

Computer vision has received a significant attention in recent year, which is one of the important parts for robots to obtain information about the external environment. Visual trackers can provide the necessary physical and environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Shaoze You , Hua Zhu , Menggang Li , Yutan Li

Small drones are an increasing threat to both military personnel and civilian infrastructure, making early and automated detection crucial. In this work we develop a system that uses spiking neural networks and neuromorphic cameras (event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Anton Eldeborg Lundin , Rasmus Winzell , Hanna Hamrell , David Gustafsson , Hannes Ovrén

Since photovoltaic (PV) plants require periodic maintenance, using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for inspections can help reduce costs. The thermal and visual inspection of PV installations is currently based on UAV photogrammetry. A UAV…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Luca Morando , Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto , Jacopo Callà , Paolo Scuteri , Antonio Sgorbissa

The vision of unmanned aerial vehicles is very significant for UAV-related applications such as search and rescue, landing on a moving platform, etc. In this work, we have developed an integrated system for the UAV landing on the moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Kangcheng Liu

In this paper, we present an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) landing system based on visual navigation. We design the landmark as a topological pattern in order to enable the UAV to distinguish the landmark from the environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Zhixin Wu , Peng Han , Ruiwen Yao , Lei Qiao , Weidong Zhang , Tielong Shen , Min Sun , Yilong Zhu , Ming Liu , Rui Fan

In this paper, we present a development process of a drone detection system involving a machine learning object detection component. The purpose is to reach acceptable performance objectives and provide sufficient evidences, required by the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Mohammed Belcaid , Eric Bonnafous , Louis Crison , Christophe Faure , Eric Jenn , Claire Pagetti

The current research interest in autonomous driving is growing at a rapid pace, attracting great investments from both the academic and corporate sectors. In order for vehicles to be fully autonomous, it is imperative that the driver…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Kai Li Lim , Thomas Bräunl

Due to its extensive applications, aerial image object detection has long been a hot topic in computer vision. In recent years, advancements in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) technology have further propelled this field to new heights,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yang Zhou , Junjie Li , CongYang Ou , Dawei Yan , Haokui Zhang , Xizhe Xue

The rise of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and their increasing use in the cinema industry calls for the creation of dedicated tools. Though there is a range of techniques to automatically control drones for a variety of applications, none have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Quentin Galvane , Julien Fleureau , Francois-Louis Tariolle , Philippe Guillotel

Drone-based rapid and accurate environmental edge detection is highly advantageous for tasks such as disaster relief and autonomous navigation. Current methods, using radars or cameras, raise deployment costs and burden lightweight drones…