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In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imaging is a suitable solution for real-time monitoring different vehicles on the urban scale. Real-time vehicle detection with the use of uncertainty estimation in deep meta-learning for the…

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have recently shown great performance collecting visual data through autonomous exploration and mapping in building inspection. Yet, the number of studies is limited considering the post processing of the…

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Semantic segmentation has been one of the leading research interests in computer vision recently. It serves as a perception foundation for many fields, such as robotics and autonomous driving. The fast development of semantic segmentation…

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Detecting subtle defects in window frames, including dents and scratches, is vital for upholding product integrity and sustaining a positive brand perception. Conventional machine vision systems often struggle to identify these defects in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Jorge Vasquez , Hemant K. Sharma , Tomotake Furuhata , Kenji Shimada

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) spectral remote sensing technology is widely used in water quality monitoring. However, in dynamic environments, varying illumination conditions, such as shadows and specular reflection (sun glint), can cause…

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Identifying regions affected by disasters is a vital step in effectively managing and planning relief and rescue efforts. Unlike the traditional approaches of manually assessing post-disaster damage, analyzing images of Unmanned Aerial…

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Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) opens venues for application such as tunnel inspection. Owing to its versatility to fly inside the tunnels, it can quickly identify defects and potential problems related to safety. However, long…

To ensure flight safety of aircraft structures, it is necessary to have regular maintenance using visual and nondestructive inspection (NDI) methods. In this paper, we propose an automatic image-based aircraft defect detection using Deep…

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For intelligent quadcopter UAVs, a robust and reliable autonomous planning system is crucial. Most current trajectory planning methods for UAVs are suitable for static environments but struggle to handle dynamic obstacles, which can pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jiageng Zhong , Ming Li , Yinliang Chen , Zihang Wei , Fan Yang , Haoran Shen

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has already demonstrated its potential in many civilian applications, and the fa\c{c}ade inspection is among the most promising ones. In this paper, we focus on enabling the autonomous perception and control of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Yang Lyu , Muqing Cao , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

This paper describes the development of an on-board data-driven system that can monitor and localize the fault in a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and at the same time, evaluate the degree of damage of the fault under real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 J. J. Tong , W. Zhang , F. Liao , C. F. Li , Y. F. Zhang

Recent advances in data-driven computer vision have enabled robust autonomous navigation capabilities for civil aviation, including automated landing and runway detection. However, ensuring that these systems meet the robustness and safety…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Romeo Valentin , Sydney M. Katz , Artur B. Carneiro , Don Walker , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

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

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are considered cutting-edge technology with highly cost-effective and flexible usage scenarios. Although many papers have reviewed the application of UAVs in agriculture, the review of the application for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Weijie Kuang , Hann Woei Ho , Ye Zhou , Shahrel Azmin Suandi , Farzad Ismail

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) represent a new frontier in a wide range of monitoring and research applications. To fully leverage their potential, a key challenge is planning missions for efficient data acquisition in complex…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used due to their low cost and versatility, but they also pose security and privacy threats. Therefore, reliable detection for low-altitude UAVs is an important issue. The strong ground clutter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-25 Zeyang Wu , Wenbo Wang , Yuexing Peng

Online path planning for multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) systems is considered a challenging task. It needs to ensure collision-free path planning in real-time, especially when the multi-UAV systems can become very crowded on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Huaxing Huang , Guijie Zhu , Zhun Fan , Hao Zhai , Yuwei Cai , Ze Shi , Zhaohui Dong , Zhifeng Hao

Automated pavement crack image segmentation is challenging because of inherent irregular patterns, lighting conditions, and noise in images. Conventional approaches require a substantial amount of feature engineering to differentiate crack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Stephen L. H. Lau , Edwin K. P. Chong , Xu Yang , Xin Wang

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) have gained significant traction for their application in infrastructure inspections. However, considering the enormous scale and complex nature of infrastructure, automation is essential for improving the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yuxiang Zhao , Benhao Lu , Mohamad Alipour

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have been widely used in various fields, and their invasion of security and privacy has aroused social concern. Several detection and tracking systems for UAVs have been introduced in recent years, but most of…

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