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Multi-modal methods based on camera and LiDAR sensors have garnered significant attention in the field of 3D detection. However, many prevalent works focus on single or partial stage fusion, leading to insufficient feature extraction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zhiwei Ning , Zhaojiang Liu , Xuanang Gao , Yifan Zuo , Jie Yang , Yuming Fang , Wei Liu

Detecting spoofing attacks on the positions of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) within a swarm is challenging. Traditional methods relying solely on individually reported positions and pairwise distance measurements are ineffective in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Siguo Bi , Kai Li , Shuyan Hu , Wei Ni , Cong Wang , Xin Wang

Radar has stronger adaptability in adverse scenarios for autonomous driving environmental perception compared to widely adopted cameras and LiDARs. Compared with commonly used 3D radars, the latest 4D radars have precise vertical resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Xinyu Zhang , Li Wang , Jian Chen , Cheng Fang , Lei Yang , Ziying Song , Guangqi Yang , Yichen Wang , Xiaofei Zhang , Jun Li , Zhiwei Li , Qingshan Yang , Zhenlin Zhang , Shuzhi Sam Ge

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

The task of UAV-view geo-localization is to estimate the localization of a query satellite/drone image by matching it against a reference dataset consisting of drone/satellite images. Though tremendous strides have been made in feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Jie Shao , LingHao Jiang

Visual object tracking (VOT) plays a pivotal role in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. Addressing the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency, especially under challenging conditions like unpredictable occlusion, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yang Zhou , Derui Ding , Ran Sun , Ying Sun , Haohua Zhang

The autonomous real-time optical navigation of planetary UAV is of the key technologies to ensure the success of the exploration. In such a GPS denied environment, vision-based localization is an optimal approach. In this paper, we proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Xue Wan , Yuanbin Shao , Shengyang Li

Over the past few years, a plethora of advancements in Unmanned Areal Vehicle (UAV) technology has paved the way for UAV-based search and rescue operations with transformative impact to the outcome of critical life-saving missions. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Andreas Anastasiou , Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Christos G. Panayiotou

Multi-sensor fusion is crucial for accurate 3D object detection in autonomous driving, with cameras and LiDAR being the most commonly used sensors. However, existing methods perform sensor fusion in a single view by projecting features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Rohit Mohan , Daniele Cattaneo , Florian Drews , Abhinav Valada

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks, and determining collision-free trajectory in multi-UAV non-cooperative scenarios while collecting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) nodes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu

This report presents our Le3DE2E solution for unified sensor-based detection, tracking, and forecasting in Argoverse Challenges at CVPR 2023 Workshop on Autonomous Driving (WAD). We propose a unified network that incorporates three tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhepeng Wang , Feng Chen , Kanokphan Lertniphonphan , Siwei Chen , Jinyao Bao , Pengfei Zheng , Jinbao Zhang , Kaer Huang , Tao Zhang

With the rapid advancement of UAV technology and its extensive application in various fields such as military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, and logistics, achieving efficient and accurate Anti-UAV tracking has become essential.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Guanghai Ding , Yihua Ren , Yuting Liu , Qijun Zhao , Shuiwang Li

Low Probability of Detection (LPD) communication aims to obscure the presence of radio frequency (RF) signals to evade surveillance. In the context of mobile surveillance utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), achieving LPD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Sivaram Krishnan , Jihong Park , Gregory Sherman , Benjamin Campbell , Jinho Choi

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

Consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that searches for an unknown number of targets at unknown positions in 3D space. A particle filter uses imperfect measurements about the targets to update an intensity function that represents the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Bilal Yousuf , Zsofia Lendek , Lucian Busoniu

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing images poses significant challenges due to unstable image quality, small object sizes, complex backgrounds, and environmental occlusions. Small objects, in particular, occupy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xudong Wang , Yaxin Peng , Chaomin Shen

Non-repetitive solid-state LiDAR scanning leads to an extremely sparse measurement regime for detecting airborne UAVs: a small quadrotor at 10-25 m typically produces only 1-2 returns per scan, which is far below the point densities assumed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Nivand Khosravi , Rodrigo Ventura , Meysam Basiri

Visual object tracking, as a fundamental task in computer vision, has drawn much attention in recent years. To extend trackers to a wider range of applications, researchers have introduced information from multiple modalities to handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Pengyu Zhang , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

A robotic system of multiple unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has the potential for advancing autonomous object geolocation performance. Much research has focused on algorithmic improvements on individual…

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used for numerous inspection and video capture tasks. Manually controlling UAVs in the vicinity of obstacles is challenging, however, and poses a high risk of collisions. Even for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Daniel Schleich , Sven Behnke