English
Related papers

Related papers: Learning Motion Blur Robust Vision Transformers fo…

200 papers

With the increasing prevalence of drones in various industries, the navigation and tracking of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in challenging environments, particularly GNSS-denied areas, have become crucial concerns. To address this need,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Iacopo Catalano , Xianjia Yu , Jorge Pena Queralta

Visual active tracking is a growing research topic in robotics due to its key role in applications such as human assistance, disaster recovery, and surveillance. In contrast to passive tracking, active tracking approaches combine vision and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Alberto Dionigi , Simone Felicioni , Mirko Leomanni , Gabriele Costante

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) can pose a major risk for aviation safety, due to both negligent and malicious use. For this reason, the automated detection and tracking of UAV is a fundamental task in aerial security systems. Common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Matt Poyser , Daniel Organisciak , Chris G. Willcocks , Toby P. Breckon , Hubert P. H. Shum

Maintaining high efficiency and high precision are two fundamental challenges in UAV tracking due to the constraints of computing resources, battery capacity, and UAV maximum load. Discriminative correlation filters (DCF)-based trackers can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Dan Zeng , Mingliang Zou , Xucheng Wang , Shuiwang Li

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

As a key research direction in the field of multi-object tracking (MOT), UAV-based multi-object tracking has significant application value in the analysis and understanding of urban intelligent transportation systems. However, in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wenguang Tao , Xiaotian Wang , Tian Yan , Jie Yan , Guodong Li , Kun Bai

With the increasing use of drones across various industries, the navigation and tracking of these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in challenging environments (such as GNSS-denied environments) have become critical issues. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Iacopo Catalano , Ha Sier , Xianjia Yu , Tomi Westerlund , Jorge Pena Queralta

Visual object tracking is a fundamental component of transportation systems, especially for intelligent driving. Despite achieving state-of-the-art performance in visual tracking, recent single-branch trackers tend to overlook the weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Chuanming Tang , Kai Wang , Joost van de Weijer , Jianlin Zhang , Yongmei Huang

As an important area in computer vision, object tracking has formed two separate communities that respectively study Single Object Tracking (SOT) and Multiple Object Tracking (MOT). However, current methods in one tracking scenario are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Fan Ma , Mike Zheng Shou , Linchao Zhu , Haoqi Fan , Yilei Xu , Yi Yang , Zhicheng Yan

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer wide-ranging applications but also pose significant safety and privacy violation risks in areas like airport and infrastructure inspection, spurring the rapid development of Anti-UAV technologies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chunhui Zhang , Li Liu , Zhipeng Zhang , Yong Wang , Hao Wen , Xi Zhou , Shiming Ge , Yanfeng Wang

Visual tracking is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Recently, some deep-learning-based tracking algorithms have been achieving record-breaking performances. However, due to the high complexity of deep learning, most deep trackers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Xinyu Wang , Hanxi Li , Yi Li , Fumin Shen , Fatih Porikli

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

The speed-precision trade-off is a critical problem for visual object tracking which usually requires low latency and deployment on constrained resources. Existing solutions for efficient tracking mainly focus on adopting light-weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Jiawen Zhu , Xin Chen , Haiwen Diao , Shuai Li , Jun-Yan He , Chenyang Li , Bin Luo , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

Owing to effective and flexible data acquisition, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has recently become a hotspot across the fields of computer vision (CV) and remote sensing (RS). Inspired by recent success of deep learning (DL), many advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xin Wu , Wei Li , Danfeng Hong , Ran Tao , Qian Du

This paper presents a visual tracking system that is capable or running real time on-board a small UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). The tracking system is computationally efficient and invariant to lighting changes and rotation of the object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-05-28 Ashraf Qadir , William Semke , Jeremiah Neubert

This paper investigates the coordinated trajectory tracking problem of multiple vertical takeooff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The case of unidirectional information flow is considered and the objective is to drive…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Yao Zou , Ziyang Meng

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have great potential in urban traffic monitoring due to their rapid speed, cost-effectiveness, and extensive field-of-view, while being unconstrained by traffic congestion. However, their limited flight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Yumeng Bai , Yiheng Feng

Night unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking is impeded by the challenges of poor illumination, with previous daylight-optimized methods demonstrating suboptimal performance in low-light conditions, limiting the utility of UAV applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Chunhui Zhang , Li Liu , Hao Wen , Xi Zhou , Yanfeng Wang

With growing real-world demands, efficient tracking has received increasing attention. However, most existing methods are limited to RGB inputs and struggle in multi-modal scenarios. Moreover, current multi-modal tracking approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Ben Kang , Jie Zhao , Xin Chen , Wanting Geng , Bin Zhang , Lu Zhang , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

This paper studies trajectory optimization of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to track an unknown maneuvering target both in the 2D and 3D space. Due to the restrictions on sensing capabilities in the underwater scenario, the AUV is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Yingbo Fu , Ziwen Yang , Liang Xu , Yi Guo , Shanying Zhu , Xinnping Guan