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Thermal imaging from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) holds significant potential for applications in search and rescue, wildlife monitoring, and emergency response, especially under low-light or obscured conditions. However, the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Antonella Barisic Kulas , Andreja Jurasovic , Stjepan Bogdan

The use of semi-autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or drones) to support emergency response scenarios, such as fire surveillance and search-and-rescue, has the potential for huge societal benefits. Onboard sensors and artificial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Ankit Agrawal , Jan-Philipp Steghofer , Jane Cleland-Huang

This paper presents OpenREALM, a real-time mapping framework for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). A camera attached to the onboard computer of a moving UAV is utilized to acquire high resolution image mosaics of a targeted area of interest.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Alexander Kern , Markus Bobbe , Yogesh Khedar , Ulf Bestmann

There is an increased interest in the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for agriculture, military, disaster management and aerial photography around the world. UAVs are scalable, flexible and are useful in various environments where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Bapireddy Karri

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), equipped with cameras, are employed in numerous applications, including aerial photography, surveillance, and agriculture. In these applications, robust object detection and tracking are essential for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Hui Ye , Rajshekhar Sunderraman , Shihao Ji

Unmanned aerial vehicles combined with computer vision systems, such as convolutional neural networks, offer a flexible and affordable solution for terrain monitoring, mapping, and detection tasks. However, a key challenge remains the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Hermann Blum , Silvan Rohrbach , Marija Popovic , Luca Bartolomei , Roland Siegwart

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 this work, we propose a new learning approach for autonomous navigation and landing of an Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle (UAV). We develop a multimodal fusion of deep neural architectures for visual-inertial odometry. We train the model in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Francesca Baldini , Animashree Anandkumar , Richard M. Murray

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) seamlessly integrates communication and computation by exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple-access channels. Different from the existing works that focus on transceiver design of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Wei Chen , Rui Zhang

During the past decade, the Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted increasing attention due to their flexible, extensive, and dynamic space-sensing capabilities. The volume of video captured by UAVs is exponentially growing along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Chuanmin Jia , Feng Ye , Huifang Sun , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

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

Advances in the Internet of Things are revolutionizing data acquisition, enhancing artificial intelligence and quality of service. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide an efficient data-gathering solution across varied environments. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Priyavrat Dev Sharma , Ibrahim Sorkhoh , Muthucumaru Maheswaran

Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are widely deployed across diverse applications due to their mobility and agility. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a transformative opportunity to enhance UAV intelligence beyond…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yousef Emami , Hao Zhou , Radha Reddy , Atefeh Hajijamali Arani , Biliang Wang , Kai Li , Luis Almeida , Zhu Han

The rapid development of Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) technology has spawned a wide variety of applications, such as emergency communications, regional surveillance, and disaster relief. Due to their limited battery capacity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yubo Yang , Tao Yang , Xiaofeng Wu , Bo Hu

With the advancement of drone technology, the volume of video data increases rapidly, creating an urgent need for efficient semantic retrieval. We are the first to systematically propose and study the drone video-text retrieval (DVTR) task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jinghao Huang , Yaxiong Chen , Ganchao Liu

We present a multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle control (UAV) and estimation system for supporting replicable research through realistic simulations and real-world experiments. We propose a unique multi-frame localization paradigm for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tomas Baca , Matej Petrlik , Matous Vrba , Vojtech Spurny , Robert Penicka , Daniel Hert , Martin Saska

UAV tracking faces significant challenges in real-world scenarios, such as small-size targets and occlusions, which limit the performance of RGB-based trackers. Multispectral images (MSI), which capture additional spectral information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Haolin Qin , Tingfa Xu , Tianhao Li , Zhenxiang Chen , Tao Feng , Jianan Li

In recent years, the technological improvements of low-cost small-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are promoting an ever-increasing use of them in different tasks. In particular, the use of small-scale UAVs is useful in all these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Danilo Avola , Gian Luca Foresti , Niki Martinel , Daniele Pannone , Claudio Piciarelli

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

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Data transport has attracted a lot of attention and applications, as a modern traffic engineering technique used in data sensing, transport, and delivery to where infrastructure is available for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Emmanuel Tuyishimire , Antoine Bagula , Slim Rekhis , Noureddine Boudriga