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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

This work addresses the challenge of identifying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) using radiofrequency (RF) fingerprinting in limited RF environments. The complexity and variability of RF signals, influenced by environmental interference and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Amir Kazemi , Salar Basiri , Volodymyr Kindratenko , Srinivasa Salapaka

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), specifically drones equipped with remote sensing object detection technology, have rapidly gained a broad spectrum of applications and emerged as one of the primary research focuses in the field of computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Li Zhu , Jiahui Xiong , Feng Xiong , Hanzheng Hu , Zhengnan Jiang

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as flying radio access network (RAN) nodes offers a promising complement to traditional fixed terrestrial deployments. More recently yet still in the context of wireless networks, drones have also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 David Gesbert , Omid Esrafilian , Junting Chen , Rajeev Gangula , Urbashi Mitra

State-of-the-art detection systems are generally evaluated on their ability to exhaustively retrieve objects densely distributed in the image, across a wide variety of appearances and semantic categories. Orthogonal to this, many real-life…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Amelie Royer , Christoph H. Lampert

In this paper we present a novel radar-camera sensor fusion framework for accurate object detection and distance estimation in autonomous driving scenarios. The proposed architecture uses a middle-fusion approach to fuse the radar point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Ramin Nabati , Hairong Qi

The emerging drone aerial survey has the advantages of low cost, high efficiency, and flexible use. However, UAVs are often equipped with cheap POS systems and non-measurement cameras, and their flight attitudes are easily affected. How to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Jiageng Zhong , Ming Li , Jiangying Qin , Hanqi Zhang

It's a practical approach using the ground-aerial collaborative system to enhance the localization robustness of flying robots in cluttered environments, especially when visual sensors degrade. Conventional approaches estimate the flying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Sijia Chen , Wei Dong

LiDAR-based 3D perception and localization on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are fundamentally limited by the narrow field of view (FoV) of compact LiDAR sensors and the payload constraints that preclude multi-sensor configurations.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Jianping Li , Xinhang Xu , Zhongyuan Liu , Shenghai Yuan , Muqing Cao , Lihua Xie

Aerial object detection in UAV imagery presents unique challenges due to the high prevalence of tiny objects, adverse environmental conditions, and strict computational constraints. Standard YOLO-based detectors fail to address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yann V. Bellec

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

In image processing, it is essential to detect and track air targets, especially UAVs. In this paper, we detect the flying drone using a fisheye camera. In the field of diagnosis and classification of objects, there are always many problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Fatemeh Mahdavi , Roozbeh Rajabi

Autonomous driving holds great promise in addressing traffic safety concerns by leveraging artificial intelligence and sensor technology. Multi-Object Tracking plays a critical role in ensuring safer and more efficient navigation through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Lei Cheng , Arindam Sengupta , Siyang Cao

The use of supervised learning with various sensing techniques such as audio, visual imaging, thermal sensing, RADAR, and radio frequency (RF) have been widely applied in the detection of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in an environment.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Olusiji O Medaiyese , Martins Ezuma , Adrian P Lauf , Ismail Guvenc

In this paper, we investigate the potential of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in facilitating passive/device-free three-dimensional (3D) drone localization within existing cellular infrastructure operating at millimeter-wave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Jiguang He , Charles Vanwynsberghe , Hui Chen , Chongwen Huang , Aymen Fakhreddine

Air access networks have been recognized as a significant driver of various Internet of Things (IoT) services and applications. In particular, the aerial computing network infrastructure centered on the Internet of Drones has set off a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Zhe Zhang , Shiyao Ma , Zhaohui Yang , Zehui Xiong , Jiawen Kang , Yi Wu , Kejia Zhang , Dusit Niyato

Nano-size unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) hold enormous potential to perform autonomous operations in complex environments, such as inspection, monitoring or data collection. Moreover, their small size allows safe operation close to humans…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Hanna Müller , Nicky Zimmerman , Tommaso Polonelli , Michele Magno , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss , Luca Benini

Aerial surveillance and monitoring demand both real-time and robust motion detection from a moving camera. Most existing techniques for drones involve sending a video data streams back to a ground station with a high-end desktop computer or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Chong Huang , Peng Chen , Xin Yang , Kwang-Ting , Cheng

Safety and reliability are crucial for the public acceptance of autonomous driving. To ensure accurate and reliable environmental perception, intelligent vehicles must exhibit accuracy and robustness in various environments. Millimeter-wave…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Yue Sun , Yeqiang Qian , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

In this paper, a sensing-assisted non-line-of-sight (NLoS) identification method for dynamic uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) positioning is proposed for the first time. For urban UAV-to-ground scenarios, a new multi-modal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Huijuan Qiao , Lu Bai , Mingran Sun , Mengyuan Lu , Jiajing Chen , Xiang Cheng