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Object-relative mobile robot navigation is essential for a variety of tasks, e.g. autonomous critical infrastructure inspection, but requires the capability to extract semantic information about the objects of interest from raw sensory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Thomas Jantos , Martin Scheiber , Christian Brommer , Eren Allak , Stephan Weiss , Jan Steinbrener

A robotic system of multiple unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has the potential for advancing autonomous object geolocation performance. Much research has focused on algorithmic improvements on individual…

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) must reliably detect thin obstacles such as wires, poles, and branches to navigate safely in real-world environments. These structures remain difficult to perceive because they occupy few pixels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Negar Fathi

Navigation of a team of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) coordinated by an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) is efficient and reliable for deep ocean exploration. AUVs depart from and return to the USV after collaborative navigation, data…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Mohsen Eskandari , Andrey V. Savkin , Mohammad Deghat

As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) become more accessible with a growing range of applications, the potential risk of UAV disruption increases. Recent development in deep learning allows vision-based counter-UAV systems to detect and track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Daniel Organisciak , Matthew Poyser , Aishah Alsehaim , Shanfeng Hu , Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Toby P. Breckon , Hubert P. H. Shum

Autonomous exploration is a fundamental problem for various applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Recently, LiDAR-based exploration has gained significant attention due to its ability to generate high-precision point cloud maps…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Shuang Geng , Zelin Ning , Fu Zhang , Boyu Zhou

We present a unified pipeline architecture for a real-time detection system on an embedded system for UAVs. Neural architectures have been the industry standard for computer vision. However, most existing works focus solely on concatenating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Tin Lai

The development of computer vision algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications in urban environments heavily relies on the availability of large-scale datasets with accurate annotations. However, collecting and annotating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Francesco Barbato , Matteo Caligiuri , Pietro Zanuttigh

Object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) images poses significant challenges due to complex scale variations and class imbalance among objects. Existing methods often address these challenges separately, overlooking the intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhenteng Li , Sheng Lian , Dengfeng Pan , Youlin Wang , Wei Liu

Detecting objects from UAV-captured images is challenging due to the small object size. In this work, a simple and efficient adaptive zoom-in framework is explored for object detection on UAV images. The main motivation is that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Tao Wang , Chenyu Lin , Chenwei Tang , Jizhe Zhou , Deng Xiong , Jianan Li , Jian Zhao , Jiancheng Lv

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly important in disaster emergency response by facilitating aerial video analysis. Due to the limited computational resources available on UAVs, large models cannot be run efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yanbing Bai , Rui-Yang Ju , Lemeng Zhao , Junjie Hu , Jianchao Bi , Erick Mas , Shunichi Koshimura

Absolute localization, aiming to determine an agent's location with respect to a global reference, is crucial for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in various applications, but it becomes challenging when global navigation satellite system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xiangkai Zhang , Xiang Zhou , Mao Chen , Yuchen Lu , Xu Yang , Zhiyong Liu

Runway and taxiway pavements are exposed to high stress during their projected lifetime, which inevitably leads to a decrease in their condition over time. To make sure airport pavement condition ensure uninterrupted and resilient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Pablo Alonso , Jon Ander Iñiguez de Gordoa , Juan Diego Ortega , Sara García , Francisco Javier Iriarte , Marcos Nieto

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-based object detection with visible (RGB) and infrared (IR) images facilitates robust around-the-clock detection, driven by advancements in deep learning techniques and the availability of high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Chen Chen , Kangcheng Bin , Ting Hu , Jiahao Qi , Xingyue Liu , Tianpeng Liu , Zhen Liu , Yongxiang Liu , Ping Zhong

Visual object tracking, which is representing a major interest in image processing field, has facilitated numerous real world applications. Among them, equipping unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with real time robust visual trackers for all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Bowen Li , Changhong Fu , Fangqiang Ding , Junjie Ye , Fuling Lin

Dangerous surroundings and difficult-to-reach landscapes introduce significant complications for adequate disaster management and recuperation. These problems can be solved by engaging unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provided with embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Branislava Jankovic , Sabina Jangirova , Waseem Ullah , Latif U. Khan , Mohsen Guizani

This paper proposes a novel intrusion detection method for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the presence of recent actual UAV intrusion dataset. In particular, in the first stage of our method, we design an autoencoder architecture for…

This paper introduces UVIO, a multi-sensor framework that leverages Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technology and Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) to provide robust and low-drift localization. In order to include range measurements in state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Giulio Delama , Farhad Shamsfakhr , Stephan Weiss , Daniele Fontanelli , Alessandro Fornasier

Assessing collision risk is a critical challenge to effective traffic safety management. The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to address this issue has shown much promise, given their wide visual field and movement flexibility.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Shuya Zong , Sikai Chen , Majed Alinizzi , Yujie Li , Samuel Labi

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) object detection has been widely used in traffic management, agriculture, emergency rescue, etc. However, it faces significant challenges, including occlusions, small object sizes, and irregular shapes. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Wei Li , Jiaman Tang , Yang Li , Beihao Xia , Ligang Tan , Hongmao Qin