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Object tracking has been broadly applied in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tasks in recent years. However, existing algorithms still face difficulties such as partial occlusion, clutter background, and other challenging visual factors.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Yujie He , Changhong Fu , Fuling Lin , Yiming Li , Peng Lu

Embodied visual tracking is crucial for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) executing complex real-world tasks. In dynamic urban scenarios with complex semantic requirements, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show great promise due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Qiyao Zhang , Shuhua Zheng , Jianli Sun , Chengxiang Li , Xianke Wu , Zihan Song , Zhiyong Cui , Yisheng Lv , Yonglin Tian

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Zenghuang Fu , Xiaofeng Han , Mingda Jia , Jin ming Yang , Qi Zeng , Muyang Zahng , Changwei Wang , Weiliang Meng , Xiaopeng Zhang

Efficiently modeling spatio-temporal relations of objects is a key challenge in visual object tracking (VOT). Existing methods track by appearance-based similarity or long-term relation modeling, resulting in rich temporal contexts between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Yushan Han , Kaer Huang

Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly utilized in search and rescue missions, a trend driven by technological advancements, including enhancements in automation, avionics, and the reduced cost of electronics. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-28 Andreas Anastasiou , Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Christos G. Panayiotou

Agile trajectory planning can improve the efficiency of multi-rotor Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in scenarios with combined task-oriented and kinematic trajectory planning, such as monitoring spatio-temporal phenomena or intercepting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Atharva Ghotavadekar , František Nekovář , Martin Saska , Jan Faigl

The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) into Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) offers synoptic visibility for traffic monitoring, yet scalable deployment is hindered by trajectory fragmentation, where vehicle identity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jianlin Ye , Christos Kyrkou , Panayiotis Kolios

Similarity matching is a core operation in Siamese trackers. Most Siamese trackers carry out similarity learning via cross correlation that originates from the image matching field. However, unlike 2-D image matching, the matching network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Jinpu Zhang , Yuehuan Wang

Multiple object tracking (MOT) from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms requires efficient motion modeling. This is because UAV-MOT faces both local object motion and global camera motion. Motion blur also increases the difficulty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Mufeng Yao , Jinlong Peng , Qingdong He , Bo Peng , Hao Chen , Mingmin Chi , Chao Liu , Jon Atli Benediktsson

This paper investigates a hybrid compositional approach to optimal mission planning for multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). We consider a time critical search and rescue scenario with two quadrotors in a constrained environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Usman A. Fiaz , John S. Baras

Nighttime UAV tracking faces significant challenges in real-world robotics operations. Low-light conditions not only limit visual perception capabilities, but cluttered backgrounds and frequent viewpoint changes also cause existing trackers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xuzhao Li , Xuchen Li , Shiyu Hu

We present a hybrid compositional approach for real-time mission planning for multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a time critical search and rescue scenario. Starting with a known environment, we specify the mission using Metric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Usman A. Fiaz , John S. Baras

Visual tracking aims to automatically estimate the state of a target object in a video sequence, which is challenging especially in dynamic scenarios. Thus, numerous methods are proposed to introduce temporal cues to enhance tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yinchao Ma , Dengqing Yang , Zhangyu He , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang

This paper introduces a novel approach to video object detection detection and tracking on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). By incorporating metadata, the proposed approach creates a memory map of object locations in actual world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Benjamin Kiefer , Yitong Quan , Andreas Zell

This paper proposes a systematic solution that uses an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to aggressively and safely track an agile target. The solution properly handles the challenging situations where the intent of the target and the dense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Zhichao Han , Ruibin Zhang , Neng Pan , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

RGBT tracking has been widely used in various fields such as robotics, surveillance processing, and autonomous driving. Existing RGBT trackers fully explore the spatial information between the template and the search region and locate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Hongyu Wang , Xiaotao Liu , Yifan Li , Meng Sun , Dian Yuan , Jing Liu

This paper investigates the coordinated trajectory tracking problem of multiple vertical takeooff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The case of unidirectional information flow is considered and the objective is to drive…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Yao Zou , Ziyang Meng

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to track multiple objects while maintaining consistent identities across frames of a given video. In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) recorded videos, frequent viewpoint changes and complex UAV-ground relative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jianbo Ma , Hui Luo , Qi Chen , Yuankai Qi , Yumei Sun , Amin Beheshti , Jianlin Zhang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Due to changes in model dynamics or unexpected disturbances, an autonomous robotic system may experience unforeseen challenges during real-world operations which may affect its safety and intended behavior: in particular actuator and system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Esen Yel , Nicola Bezzo

Point cloud-based 3D object tracking is an important task in autonomous driving. Though great advances regarding Siamese-based 3D tracking have been made recently, it remains challenging to learn the correlation between the template and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Shihao Feng , Pengpeng Liang , Jin Gao , Erkang Cheng