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The unmanned air-vehicle (UAV) or mini-drones equipped with sensors are becoming increasingly popular for various commercial, industrial, and public-safety applications. However, drones with uncontrolled deployment poses challenges for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Zeeshan Kaleem , Mubashir Husain Rehmani

Developing reliable UAV navigation systems requires robust air-to-air object detectors capable of distinguishing between objects seen during training and previously unseen objects. While many methods address closed-set detection and achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Spyridon Loukovitis , Vasileios Karampinis , Athanasios Voulodimos

The development of the low-altitude economy has led to a growing prominence of uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) safety management issues. Therefore, accurate identification, real-time localization, and effective countermeasures have become…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Yi Tao , Zhen Gao , Fangquan Ye , Jingbo Xu , Tao Song , Weidong Li , Yu Su , Lu Peng , Xiaomei Wu , Tong Qin , Zhongxiang Li , Dezhi Zheng

With the rapid advancement of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and computer vision technologies, object detection from UAV perspectives has emerged as a prominent research area. However, challenges for detection brought by the extremely small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Liugang Lu , Dabin He , Congxiang Liu , Zhixiang Deng

3D object detection with multi-sensors is essential for an accurate and reliable perception system of autonomous driving and robotics. Existing 3D detectors significantly improve the accuracy by adopting a two-stage paradigm which merely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Xinli Xu , Shaocong Dong , Lihe Ding , Jie Wang , Tingfa Xu , Jianan Li

The increasing deployment of small drones as tools of conflict and disruption has amplified their threat, highlighting the urgent need for effective anti-drone measures. However, the compact size of most drones presents a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Hanfang Liang , Jinming Hu , Xiaohuan Ling , Bing Wang

Small target detection in UAV imagery faces significant challenges such as scale variations, dense distribution, and the dominance of small targets. Existing algorithms rely on manually designed components, and general-purpose detectors are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yuankai Chen , Kai Lin , Qihong Wu , Xinxuan Yang , Jiashuo Lai , Ruoen Chen , Haonan Shi , Minfan He , Meihua Wang

Precisely detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) plays a critical role in UAV defense systems. Deep learning is widely adopted for UAV object detection whereas researches on this topic are limited by the amount of dataset and small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Chen Rui , Guo Youwei , Zheng Huafei , Jiang Hongyu

With the increasing utilization of Internet of Things (IoT) enabled drones in diverse applications like photography, delivery, and surveillance, concerns regarding privacy and security have become more prominent. Drones have the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jaskaran Singh

Radar Automated Target Recognition (RATR) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) involves transmitting Electromagnetic Waves (EMWs) and performing target type recognition on the received radar echo, crucial for defense and aerospace…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Michael Potter , Murat Akcakaya , Marius Necsoiu , Gunar Schirner , Deniz Erdogmus , Tales Imbiriba

The rapid deployment of drones poses significant challenges for airspace management, security, and surveillance. Current detection and classification technologies, including cameras, LiDAR, and conventional radar systems, often struggle to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 O. Yerushalimov , D. Vovchuk , A. Glam , P. Ginzburg

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy has resulted in a significant increase in the number of Low, slow, and small (LLS) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), raising critical challenges for secure airspace management and reliable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Tianhao Liang , Mu Jia , Tingting Zhang , Junting Chen , Longyu Zhou , Tony Q. S. Quek , Pooi-Yuen Kam

Detecting fast-moving objects, such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), from event camera data is challenging due to the sparse, asynchronous nature of the input. Traditional Discrete Fourier Transforms (DFT) are effective at identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Michael Bezick , Majid Sahin

Rapid generation of large-scale orthoimages from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has been a long-standing focus of research in the field of aerial mapping. A multi-sensor UAV system, integrating the Global Positioning System (GPS), Inertial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jialei He , Zhihao Zhan , Zhituo Tu , Xiang Zhu , Jie Yuan

In this work, we present and evaluate a method to perform real-time multiple drone detection and three-dimensional localization using state-of-the-art tiny-YOLOv4 object detection algorithm and stereo triangulation. Our computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Aryan Sharma , Nitik Jain , Mangal Kothari

The increase in the number of unmanned aerial vehicles a.k.a. drones pose several threats to public privacy, critical infrastructure and cyber security. Hence, detecting unauthorized drones is a significant problem which received attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Muhammad Asif Khan , Hamid Menouar , Osama Muhammad Khalid , Adnan Abu-Dayya

Tracking and measuring targets using a variety of sensors mounted on UAVs is an effective means to quickly and accurately locate the target. This paper proposes a fusion localization method based on ridge estimation, combining the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Huayu Huang , Chen Chen , Banglei Guan , Ze Tan , Yang Shang , Zhang Li , Qifeng Yu

The use of aerial drones for commercial and defense applications has benefited in many ways and is therefore utilized in several different application domains. However, they are also increasingly used for targeted attacks, posing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Dapinder Kaur , Neeraj Battish , Arnav Bhavsar , Shashi Poddar

Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) exhibit immense potential for navigating indoor and hard-to-reach areas, yet their significant constraints in payload and autonomy have largely prevented their use for complex tasks like high-quality…

Detecting small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from a ground-to-air (G2A) perspective presents significant challenges, including extremely low pixel occupancy, cluttered aerial backgrounds, and strict real-time constraints. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pengyu Chen , Haotian Sa , Yiwei Hu , Yuhan Cheng , Junbo Wang