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Deep learning-based algorithms can provide state-of-the-art accuracy for remote sensing technologies such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)/drones, potentially enhancing their remote sensing capabilities for many emergency response and…

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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted sensor networks (UASNets), which play a crucial role in creating new opportunities, are experiencing significant growth in civil applications worldwide. UASNets improve disaster management through…

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Detecting vehicles in aerial imagery is a critical task with applications in traffic monitoring, urban planning, and defense intelligence. Deep learning methods have provided state-of-the-art (SOTA) results for this application. However, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xiao Fang , Minhyek Jeon , Zheyang Qin , Stanislav Panev , Celso de Melo , Shuowen Hu , Shayok Chakraborty , Fernando De la Torre

Emergency response events are fast-paced, noisy, and they require teamwork to accomplish the mission. Furthermore, the increasing deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) alongside emergency responders, demands a new form of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Ankit Agrawal , Jane Cleland-Huang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) rely on satellite systems for stable positioning. However, due to limited satellite coverage or communication disruptions, UAVs may lose signals from satellite-based positioning systems. In such situations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Ming Dai , Enhui Zheng , Zhenhua Feng , Jiedong Zhuang , Wankou Yang

How do you learn to navigate an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and avoid obstacles? One approach is to use a small dataset collected by human experts: however, high capacity learning algorithms tend to overfit when trained with little data.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Dhiraj Gandhi , Lerrel Pinto , Abhinav Gupta

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have played an increasingly crucial role in supporting disaster emergency response efforts by analyzing aerial images. While current deep-learning models focus on improving accuracy, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Lemeng Zhao , Junjie Hu , Jianchao Bi , Yanbing Bai , Erick Mas , Shunichi Koshimura

Unmanned aerial vehicle object detection (UAV-OD) has been widely used in various scenarios. However, most existing UAV-OD algorithms rely on manually designed components, which require extensive tuning. End-to-end models that do not depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Huaxiang Zhang , Kai Liu , Zhongxue Gan , Guo-Niu Zhu

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 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

The widespread application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has raised serious public safety and privacy concerns, making UAV perception crucial for anti-UAV tasks. However, existing UAV tracking datasets predominantly feature conspicuous…

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The domain of public safety in the form of search \& rescue, wildland firefighting, structure firefighting, and law enforcement operations have drawn great interest in the field of aerospace engineering, human-robot teaming, autonomous…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Hunter Ray , Ryan Singer , Nisar Ahmed

This paper presents the largest known benchmark dataset for road damage assessment and road alignment, and provides 18 baseline models trained on the CRASAR-U-DRIODs dataset's post-disaster small uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS) imagery from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Thomas Manzini , Priyankari Perali , Raisa Karnik , Robin R. Murphy

ML-based computer vision models are promising tools for supporting emergency management operations following natural disasters. Arial photographs taken from small manned and unmanned aircraft can be available soon after a disaster and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Samuel Scheele , Katherine Picchione , Jeffrey Liu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in many areas, including transportation, surveillance, and military. However, their potential for safety and privacy violations is an increasing issue and highly limits their broader…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Xue-Feng Zhu , Tianyang Xu , Jian Zhao , Jia-Wei Liu , Kai Wang , Gang Wang , Jianan Li , Qiang Wang , Lei Jin , Zheng Zhu , Junliang Xing , Xiao-Jun Wu

With the advancement of collaborative perception, the role of aerial-ground collaborative perception, a crucial component, is becoming increasingly important. The demand for collaborative perception across different perspectives to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yuchao Wang , Peirui Cheng , Pengju Tian , Ziyang Yuan , Liangjin Zhao , Jing Tian , Wensheng Wang , Zhirui Wang , Xian Sun

Synthetic datasets are beneficial for machine learning researchers due to the possibility of experimenting with new strategies and algorithms in the training and testing phases. These datasets can easily include more scenarios that might be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Joseanne Viana , Hamed Farkhari , Pedro Sebastiao , Sandra Lagen , Katerina Koutlia , Biljana Bojovic , Rui Dinis

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer a flexible and cost-effective solution for wildfire monitoring. However, their widespread deployment during wildfires has been hindered by a lack of operational guidelines and concerns about potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hossein Rajoli , Pouya Afshin , Fatemeh Afghah

Modern perception systems for autonomous flight are sensitive to occlusion and have limited long-range capability, which is a key bottleneck in improving low-altitude economic task performance. Recent research has shown that the UAV-to-UAV…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Tongtong Feng , Xin Wang , Feilin Han , Leping Zhang , Wenwu Zhu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming a viable platform for sensing and estimation in a wide variety of applications including disaster response, search and rescue, and security monitoring. These sensing UAVs have limited battery and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Lorson Blair , Carlos A. Varela , Stacy Patterson