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Despite recent advancements in computer vision research, object detection in aerial images still suffers from several challenges. One primary challenge to be mitigated is the presence of multiple types of variation in aerial images, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Sungjune Park , Hyunjun Kim , Beomchan Park , Yong Man Ro

Location information is a fundamental requirement for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, accurately and efficiently localizing sensor nodes with diverse functionalities remains a significant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ze Zhang , Qian Dong

The remarkable growth of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has also sparked concerns about safety measures during their missions. To advance towards safer autonomous aerial robots, this work presents a vision-based solution to ensuring safe…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Phuoc Nguyen Thuan , Tomi Westerlund , Jorge Peña Queralta

Robust and accurate localization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is an essential capability to achieve autonomous, long-range flights. Current methods either rely heavily on GNSS, face limitations in visual-based localization due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Yao He , Ivan Cisneros , Nikhil Keetha , Jay Patrikar , Zelin Ye , Ian Higgins , Yaoyu Hu , Parv Kapoor , Sebastian Scherer

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Regression (UDAR) aims to adapt models from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain for regression tasks. Traditional feature alignment methods, successful in classification, often prove…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Ismail Nejjar , Gaetan Frusque , Florent Forest , Olga Fink

Accurate geo-localization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is crucial for outdoor applications including search and rescue operations, power line inspections, and environmental monitoring. The vulnerability of Global Navigation Satellite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jiuhong Xiao , Ning Zhang , Daniel Tortei , Giuseppe Loianno

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

This paper explores the use of applying a deep learning approach for 3D object detection to compute the relative position of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) equipped with a LiDAR sensor in a GPS-denied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Uthman Olawoye , Jason N. Gross

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

This paper presents a framework for the localization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in unstructured environments with the help of deep learning. A real-time rendering engine is introduced that generates optical and depth images given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Timo Hinzmann , Roland Siegwart

Cross-view geo-localization aims at localizing a ground-level query image by matching it to its corresponding geo-referenced aerial view. In real-world scenarios, the task requires accommodating diverse ground images captured by users with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Li Mi , Chang Xu , Javiera Castillo-Navarro , Syrielle Montariol , Wen Yang , Antoine Bosselut , Devis Tuia

Localizing ground devices (GDs) is an important requirement for a wide variety of applications, such as infrastructure monitoring, precision agriculture, search and rescue operations, to name a few. To this end, unmanned aerial vehicles…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Francesco Betti Sorbelli , Cristina M. Pinotti , Simone Silvestri , Sajal K. Das

By adding human-imperceptible perturbations to images, DNNs can be easily fooled. As one of the mainstream methods, feature space targeted attacks perturb images by modulating their intermediate feature maps, for the discrepancy between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Lianli Gao , Yaya Cheng , Qilong Zhang , Xing Xu , Jingkuan Song

Object detection from images captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is becoming increasingly useful. Despite the great success of the generic object detection methods trained on ground-to-ground images, a huge performance drop is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zhenyu Wu , Karthik Suresh , Priya Narayanan , Hongyu Xu , Heesung Kwon , Zhangyang Wang

Cross-view geo-localization is a critical task for UAV navigation, event detection, and aerial surveying, as it enables matching between drone-captured and satellite imagery. Most existing approaches embed multi-modal data into a joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zheng Li , Xueyi Zhang , Yanming Guo , Yuxiang Xie , Ding Zhaoyun , Siqi Cai , Haizhou Li , Mingrui Lao

Feature-based geo-localization relies on associating features extracted from aerial imagery with those detected by the vehicle's sensors. This requires that the type of landmarks must be observable from both sources. This lack of variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Miguel Ángel Muñoz-Bañón , Alejandro Olivas , Edison Velasco-Sánchez , Francisco A. Candelas , Fernando Torres

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

The Dynamic Targeting (DT) mission concept is an approach to satellite observation in which a lookahead sensor gathers information about the upcoming environment and uses this information to intelligently plan observations. Previous work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Akseli Kangaslahti , Itai Zilberstein , Alberto Candela , Steve Chien

In order to robustly deploy object detectors across a wide range of scenarios, they should be adaptable to shifts in the input distribution without the need to constantly annotate new data. This has motivated research in Unsupervised Domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Farzaneh Rezaeianaran , Rakshith Shetty , Rahaf Aljundi , Daniel Olmeda Reino , Shanshan Zhang , Bernt Schiele

Street-to-aerial image geo-localization, which matches a query street-view image to the GPS-tagged aerial images in a reference set, has attracted increasing attention recently. In this paper, we revisit this problem and point out the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Sijie Zhu , Taojiannan Yang , Chen Chen