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Object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) images has emerged as a focal area of research, which presents two significant challenges: i) objects are typically small and dense within vast images; ii) computational resource constraints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Chen Li , Rui Zhao , Zeyu Wang , Huiying Xu , Xinzhong Zhu

The escalating use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as remote sensing platforms has garnered considerable attention, proving invaluable for ground object recognition. While satellite remote sensing images face limitations in resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Vlatko Spasev , Ivica Dimitrovski , Ivan Chorbev , Ivan Kitanovski

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

Universal domain adaptive object detection (UniDAOD)is more challenging than domain adaptive object detection (DAOD) since the label space of the source domain may not be the same as that of the target and the scale of objects in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Wenxu Shi , Lei Zhang , Weijie Chen , Shiliang Pu

A new robust and accurate approach for the detection and localization of flying objects with the purpose of highly dynamic aerial interception and agile multi-robot interaction is presented in this paper. The approach is proposed for use on…

Applications of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in logistics, agricultural automation, urban management, and emergency response are highly dependent on oriented object detection (OOD) to enhance visual perception. Although existing datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Kai Ye , Haidi Tang , Bowen Liu , Pingyang Dai , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

With the widespread application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in bridge structural health monitoring, deep learning-based automatic crack detection has become a major research focus. However, practical UAV inspections still face four…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Wei Li , Haisheng Li , Weijie Li , Jiandong Wang , Kaichen Ma , Luming Yang

Real-time object detection on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging issue due to the limited computing resources of edge GPU devices as Internet of Things (IoT) nodes. To solve this problem, in this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Wei Zhou , Xuanlin Min , Rui Hu , Yiwen Long , Huan Luo , JunYi

The high mobility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enables them to be used in various civilian fields, such as rescue and cargo transport. Path-following is a crucial way to perform these tasks while sensing and collision avoidance are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Changheng Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Wangjun Jiang , Haoyue Jiang , Zhiyong Feng

Infrared unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) target images often suffer from motion blur degradation caused by rapid sensor movement, significantly reducing contrast between target and background. Generally, detection performance heavily depends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiaolin Wang , Houzhang Fang , Qingshan Li , Lu Wang , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in surveillance, logistics, agriculture, disaster management, and military operations. Accurate detection and classification of UAV flight states, such as hovering, cruising, ascending,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Haochen Liu , Jia Bi , Xiaomin Wang , Xin Yang , Ling Wang

3D anomaly detection targets the detection and localization of defects in 3D point clouds trained solely on normal data. While a unified model improves scalability by learning across multiple categories, it often suffers from Inter-Category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 SuYeon Kim , Wongyu Lee , MyeongAh Cho

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

Scale-sensitive object detection remains a challenging task, where most of the existing methods could not learn it explicitly and are not robust to scale variance. In addition, the most existing methods are less efficient during training or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Junran Peng , Ming Sun , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan , Junjie Yan

We propose Scale-aware AutoAug to learn data augmentation policies for object detection. We define a new scale-aware search space, where both image- and box-level augmentations are designed for maintaining scale invariance. Upon this search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Yukang Chen , Yanwei Li , Tao Kong , Lu Qi , Ruihang Chu , Lei Li , Jiaya Jia

Detecting small drones, often indistinguishable from birds, is crucial for modern surveillance. This work introduces a drone detection methodology built upon the medium-sized YOLOv11 object detection model. To enhance its performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rayson Laroca , Marcelo dos Santos , David Menotti

The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has created urgent demand for precise UAV monitoring. Existing RGB-based systems rely on spatial cues that degrade at small scales, particularly with high inter-type similarity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yihang Luo , Jun Chen , Chao Xiao , Yingqian Wang , Zhaoxu Li , Qiang Ling , Xu He , Nuo Chen , Gaowei Guo , Hongge Li , Miao Li , Longguang Wang , Yulan Guo , Li Liu , Wei An , Zhijie Chen

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly important in disaster emergency response by facilitating aerial video analysis. Due to the limited computational resources available on UAVs, large models cannot be run efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yanbing Bai , Rui-Yang Ju , Lemeng Zhao , Junjie Hu , Jianchao Bi , Erick Mas , Shunichi Koshimura

Due to implicitly introduced periodic shifting of limited searching area, visual object tracking using correlation filters often has to confront undesired boundary effect. As boundary effect severely degrade the quality of object model, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Changhong Fu , Ziyuan Huang , Yiming Li , Ran Duan , Peng Lu

Multi-modal perception is essential for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, as it enables a comprehensive understanding of the UAVs' surrounding environment. However, most existing multi-modal UAV datasets are primarily biased toward…