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As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) become more accessible with a growing range of applications, the potential risk of UAV disruption increases. Recent development in deep learning allows vision-based counter-UAV systems to detect and track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Daniel Organisciak , Matthew Poyser , Aishah Alsehaim , Shanfeng Hu , Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Toby P. Breckon , Hubert P. H. Shum

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), specifically drones equipped with remote sensing object detection technology, have rapidly gained a broad spectrum of applications and emerged as one of the primary research focuses in the field of computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Li Zhu , Jiahui Xiong , Feng Xiong , Hanzheng Hu , Zhengnan Jiang

Template-based 3D object tracking still lacks a high-precision benchmark of real scenes due to the difficulty of annotating the accurate 3D poses of real moving video objects without using markers. In this paper, we present a multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Jiachen Li , Bin Wang , Shiqiang Zhu , Xin Cao , Fan Zhong , Wenxuan Chen , Te Li , Jason Gu , Xueying Qin

Small object detection remains a challenging problem in the field of object detection. To address this challenge, we propose an enhanced YOLOv8-based model, SOD-YOLO. This model integrates an ASF mechanism in the neck to enhance multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Peijun Wang , Jinhua Zhao

This paper introduces a novel multi-object tracking (MOT) method, dubbed GenTrack, whose main contributions include: a hybrid tracking approach employing both stochastic and deterministic manners to robustly handle unknown and time-varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Toan Van Nguyen , Rasmus G. K. Christiansen , Dirk Kraft , Leon Bodenhagen

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) are emerging as a promising technology for both environmental and infrastructure monitoring, with broad use in a plethora of applications. Many such applications require the use of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Christos Kyrkou , George Plastiras , Stylianos Venieris , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

Adaptive teaming-the capability of agents to effectively collaborate with unfamiliar teammates without prior coordination-is widely explored in virtual video games but overlooked in real-world multi-robot contexts. Yet, such adaptive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Yang Li , Junfan Chen , Feng Xue , Jiabin Qiu , Wenbin Li , Qingrui Zhang , Ying Wen , Wei Pan

The use of aerial drones for commercial and defense applications has benefited in many ways and is therefore utilized in several different application domains. However, they are also increasingly used for targeted attacks, posing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Dapinder Kaur , Neeraj Battish , Arnav Bhavsar , Shashi Poddar

Object Tracking is essential for many computer vision applications, such as autonomous navigation, surveillance, and robotics. Unlike Passive Object Tracking (POT), which relies on static camera viewpoints to detect and track objects across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Hy Nguyen , Bao Pham , Hung Du , Srikanth Thudumu , Rajesh Vasa , Kon Mouzakis

Image-goal navigation (ImageNav) tasks a robot with autonomously exploring an unknown environment and reaching a location that visually matches a given target image. While prior works primarily study ImageNav for ground robots, enabling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Zichen Yan , Rui Huang , Lei He , Shao Guo , Lin Zhao

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) plays an important role in solving many fundamental problems in video analysis in computer vision. Most MOT methods employ two steps: Object Detection and Data Association. The first step detects objects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 ShiJie Sun , Naveed Akhtar , HuanSheng Song , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is a critical problem in computer vision, essential for understanding how objects move and interact in videos. This field faces significant challenges such as occlusions and complex environmental dynamics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Luiz C. S. de Araujo , Carlos M. S. Figueiredo

Drones are increasingly used in fields like industry, medicine, research, disaster relief, defense, and security. Technical challenges, such as navigation in GPS-denied environments, hinder further adoption. Research in visual odometry is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Olivier Brochu Dufour , Abolfazl Mohebbi , Sofiane Achiche

Robust multi-object tracking (MOT) is a prerequisite fora safe deployment of self-driving cars. Tracking objects, however, remains a highly challenging problem, especially in cluttered autonomous driving scenes in which objects tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Wei-Chih Hung , Henrik Kretzschmar , Tsung-Yi Lin , Yuning Chai , Ruichi Yu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Dragomir Anguelov

Ego-motion estimation is vital for drones when flying in GPS-denied environments. Vision-based methods struggle when flight speed increases and close-by objects lead to difficult visual conditions with considerable motion blur and large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Stavrow A. Bahnam , Christophe De Wagter , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

Accurate 3D multi-object tracking (MOT) is vital for autonomous vehicles, yet LiDAR and camera-based methods degrade in adverse weather. Meanwhile, Radar-based solutions remain robust but often suffer from limited vertical resolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Dong-In Kim , Dong-Hee Paek , Seung-Hyun Song , Seung-Hyun Kong

In this paper we present DOT (Dynamic Object Tracking), a front-end that added to existing SLAM systems can significantly improve their robustness and accuracy in highly dynamic environments. DOT combines instance segmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Irene Ballester , Alejandro Fontan , Javier Civera , Klaus H. Strobl , Rudolph Triebel

Small object detection (SOD) in optical images and videos is a challenging problem that even state-of-the-art generic object detection methods fail to accurately localize and identify such objects. Typically, small objects appear in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Aref Miri Rekavandi , Lian Xu , Farid Boussaid , Abd-Krim Seghouane , Stephen Hoefs , Mohammed Bennamoun

This paper introduces the ``SurgT: Surgical Tracking" challenge which was organised in conjunction with MICCAI 2022. There were two purposes for the creation of this challenge: (1) the establishment of the first standardised benchmark for…

Vision-Language MOT is a crucial tracking problem and has drawn increasing attention recently. It aims to track objects based on human language commands, replacing the traditional use of templates or pre-set information from training sets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yunhao Li , Xiaoqiong Liu , Luke Liu , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang