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Nighttime image dehazing faces a more complex degradation pattern than its daytime counterpart, as haze scattering couples with low illumination, non-uniform lighting, and strong light interference. Under limited supervision, this…

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Due to the high mobility and easy deployment, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted much attention in the field of wireless communication and positioning. To meet the challenges of lack of infrastructure coverage, uncertain sensor…

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Drones, or general UAVs, equipped with a single camera have been widely deployed to a broad range of applications, such as aerial photography, fast goods delivery and most importantly, surveillance. Despite the great progress achieved in…

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Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) techniques attempt to increase the visibility of images captured in low-light scenarios. However, as a result of enhancement, a variety of image degradations such as noise and color bias are revealed.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Savvas Panagiotou , Anna S. Bosman

With the advantage of high mobility, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used to fuel numerous important applications in computer vision, delivering more efficiency and convenience than surveillance cameras with fixed camera angle, scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Dawei Du , Yuankai Qi , Hongyang Yu , Yifan Yang , Kaiwen Duan , Guorong Li , Weigang Zhang , Qingming Huang , Qi Tian

Low-light video enhancement (LLVE) is an important yet challenging task with many applications such as photographing and autonomous driving. Unlike single image low-light enhancement, most LLVE methods utilize temporal information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Lin Liu , Junfeng An , Jianzhuang Liu , Shanxin Yuan , Xiangyu Chen , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

Vision-aided localization for low-cost mobile robots in diverse environments has attracted widespread attention recently. Although many current systems are applicable in daytime environments, nocturnal visual localization is still an open…

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In this paper, the optimization of deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over a reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-assisted visible light communication (VLC) system is studied. In the considered model, UAVs are required to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Yihan Cang , Ming Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Chongwen Huang

Detection of small-sized targets is of paramount importance in many aerial vision-based applications. The commonly deployed low cost unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for aerial scene analysis are highly resource constrained in nature. In…

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Object detection is a cornerstone of environmental perception in advanced driver assistance systems(ADAS). However, most existing methods rely on RGB cameras, which suffer from significant performance degradation under low-light conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hao Wu , Junzhou Chen , Ronghui Zhang , Nengchao Lyu , Hongyu Hu , Yanyong Guo , Tony Z. Qiu

With the assistance of device-to-device (D2D) communications, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks are anticipated to support widespread applications in the fifth generation (5G) and beyond wireless systems, by providing seamless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-11 B. Yang , T. Taleb , Z. Wu , L. Ma

Achieving high-quality shadow removal with strong generalizability is challenging in scenes with complex global illumination. Due to the limited diversity in shadow removal datasets, current methods are prone to overfitting training data,…

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Recognizing unauthorized Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) within designated no-fly zones throughout the day and night is of paramount importance, where the unauthorized UAVs pose a substantial threat to both civil and military aviation…

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Extracting useful visual cues for the downstream tasks is especially challenging under low-light vision. Prior works create enhanced representations by either correlating visual quality with machine perception or designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Goutham Kallempudi , Didier Stricker , Muhammamd Zeshan Afzal

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve an image's visibility while keeping its visual naturalness. Different from existing methods tending to accomplish the relighting task directly by ignoring the fidelity and naturalness recovery, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Kui Jiang , Zhongyuan Wang , Zheng Wang , Chen Chen , Peng Yi , Tao Lu , Chia-Wen Lin

In unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) research, while state-of-the-art models have reached a saturation point with extensive studies on public benchmark datasets, they adopt large-scale tailor-made neural networks (NN) for detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 YeongHyeon Park , Sungho Kang , Myung Jin Kim , Hyeong Seok Kim , Juneho Yi

Event cameras offer significant advantages for low-light video enhancement, primarily due to their high dynamic range. Current research, however, is severely limited by the absence of large-scale, real-world, and spatio-temporally aligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Kanghao Chen , Guoqiang Liang , Hangyu Li , Yunfan Lu , Lin Wang

Low-light images often suffer from noise and color distortion. Object detection, semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, and other tasks are challenging when working with low-light images because of image noise and chromatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xiaochun Lei , Weiliang Mai , Junlin Xie , He Liu , Zetao Jiang , Zhaoting Gong , Chang Lu , Linjun Lu

Automated defect detection from UAV imagery of transmission lines is a challenging task due to the small size, ambiguity, and complex backgrounds of defects. This paper proposes TinyDef-DETR, a DETR-based framework designed to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Feng Shen , Jiaming Cui , Wenqiang Li , Shuai Zhou

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, in which one UAV flies in the sky to collect the data transmitted from a set of ground nodes (GNs) via distributed beamforming. We consider two scenarios…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Tianxin Feng , Lifeng Xie , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu