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The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) is increasingly central to the development of intelligent autonomous systems for applications such as search and rescue, environmental monitoring, and…

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVD) faces severe performance degradation when applied to UAV imagery due to the domain gap from ground-level datasets. To address this challenge, we propose a complete UAV-oriented solution that combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Zhenhai Weng , Xinjie Li , Can Wu , Weijie He , Jianfeng Lv , Dong Zhou , Zhongliang Yu

Owing to effective and flexible data acquisition, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has recently become a hotspot across the fields of computer vision (CV) and remote sensing (RS). Inspired by recent success of deep learning (DL), many advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xin Wu , Wei Li , Danfeng Hong , Ran Tao , Qian Du

Micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) are becoming ubiquitous across multiple industries and application domains. Lightweight MAVs with only an onboard flight controller and a minimal sensor suite (e.g., IMU, vision, and vertical ranging sensors)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Li Qingqing , Yu Xianjia , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Detecting and tracking multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in thermal infrared video is inherently challenging due to low contrast, environmental noise, and small target sizes. This paper provides a straightforward approach to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Yu-Hsi Chen

Despite significant progress in global localization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in GPS-denied environments, existing methods remain constrained by the availability of datasets. Current datasets often focus on small-scale scenes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Rouwan Wu , Xiaoya Cheng , Juelin Zhu , Xuxiang Liu , Maojun Zhang , Shen Yan

Site preparation by mounding is a commonly used silvicultural treatment that improves tree growth conditions by mechanically creating planting microsites called mounds. Following site preparation, the next critical step is to count the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Majid Nikougoftar Nategh , Ahmed Zgaren , Wassim Bouachir , Nizar Bouguila

In recent years, teams of robot and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been commissioned by researchers to enable accurate, online wildfire coverage and tracking. While the majority of prior work focuses on the coordination and control of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Esmaeil Seraj , Andrew Silva , Matthew Gombolay

Distance estimation plays an important role for path planning and collision avoidance of swarm UAVs. However, the lack of annotated data seriously hinders the related studies. In this work, we build and present a UAVDE dataset for UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jiafan Zhuang , Duan Yuan , Rihong Yan , Weixin Huang , Wenji Li , Zhun Fan

Traffic congestion and violations pose significant challenges for urban mobility and road safety. Traditional traffic monitoring systems, such as fixed cameras and sensor-based methods, are often constrained by limited coverage, low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ali Khanpour , Tianyi Wang , Afra Vahidi-Shams , Wim Ectors , Farzam Nakhaie , Amirhossein Taheri , Christian Claudel

Reliable UAV object detection requires robustness to illumination changes, motion blur, and scene dynamics that suppress RGB cues. Thermal long-wave infrared (LWIR) sensing preserves contrast in low light, and event cameras retain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Craig Iaboni , Pramod Abichandani

The rapid movements and agile maneuvers of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) induce significant observational challenges for multi-object tracking (MOT). However, existing UAV-perspective MOT benchmarks often lack these complexities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jingtao Ye , Kexin Zhang , Xunchi Ma , Yuehan Li , Guangming Zhu , Peiyi Shen , Linhua Jiang , Xiangdong Zhang , Liang Zhang

This report presents our solution for the WeatherProof Dataset Challenge, namely CVPR 2026 8th UG2+ Challenge Track 2: Semantic Segmentation in Adverse Weather. For the semantic segmentation task under adverse weather conditions, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jinming Chai , Libo Yan , Licheng Jiao , Fang Liu

In this paper a vision-based system for detection, motion tracking and following of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with other UAV (follower) is presented. For detection of an airborne UAV we apply a convolutional neural network YOLO trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Antonella Barisic , Marko Car , Stjepan Bogdan

The agility and versatility offered by UAV platforms still encounter obstacles for full exploitation in industrial applications due to their indoor usage limitations. A significant challenge in this sense is finding a reliable and…

The rise of autonomous vehicles has significantly increased the demand for robust 3D object detection systems. While cameras and LiDAR sensors each offer unique advantages--cameras provide rich texture information and LiDAR offers precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Zitian Wang , Zehao Huang , Yulu Gao , Naiyan Wang , Si Liu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-based object detection with visible (RGB) and infrared (IR) images facilitates robust around-the-clock detection, driven by advancements in deep learning techniques and the availability of high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Chen Chen , Kangcheng Bin , Ting Hu , Jiahao Qi , Xingyue Liu , Tianpeng Liu , Zhen Liu , Yongxiang Liu , Ping Zhong

In the realm of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking, Siamese-based approaches have gained traction due to their optimal balance between efficiency and precision. However, UAV scenarios often present challenges such as insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Xiaoying Yuan , Tingfa Xu , Xincong Liu , Ying Wang , Haolin Qin , Yuqiang Fang , Jianan Li

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with multiple complementary sensors have tremendous potential for fast autonomous or remote-controlled semantic scene analysis, e.g., for disaster examination. In this work, we propose a UAV system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Simon Bultmann , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

The present work deals with a new passive system for real-time detection, classification and direction of arrival estimator of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The proposed system composed of a very low cost hardware components, comprises…

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