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In this paper we propose a novel approach for detecting and tracking objects in videos with variable background i.e. videos captured by moving cameras without any additional sensor. In a video captured by a moving camera, both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Kumar S. Ray , Vijayan K. Asari , Soma Chakraborty

We present an error tolerant path planning algorithm for Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) swarms. We assume navigation without GPS-like techniques. The MAVs find their path using sensors and cameras, identifying and following a series of visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Michel Barbeau , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro , Evangelos Kranakis , Fillipe Santos

Robust detection of moving vehicles is a critical task for any autonomously operating outdoor robot or self-driving vehicle. Most modern approaches for solving this task rely on training image-based detectors using large-scale vehicle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Jannik Zürn , Wolfram Burgard

Recently, there has been a considerable attention given to the motion detection problem due to the explosive growth of its applications in video analysis and surveillance systems. While the previous approaches can produce good results, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Sahar Yousefi , M. T. Manzuri Shalmani , Jeremy Lin , Marius Staring

Due to the problem of performance constraints of unsupervised video object detection, its large-scale application is limited. In response to this pain point, we propose another excellent method to solve this problematic point. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Chao Hu , Liqiang Zhu

The use of commercial Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) has surged in the past decade, offering societal benefits but also raising risks such as airspace violations and privacy concerns. Due to the increased security risks, the development of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Sándor Gazdag , Tom Möller , Anita Keszler , András L. Majdik

Single visual object tracking from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) poses fundamental challenges such as object occlusion, small-scale objects, background clutter, and abrupt camera motion. To tackle these difficulties, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Stéphane Vujasinović , Stefan Becker , Timo Breuer , Sebastian Bullinger , Norbert Scherer-Negenborn , Michael Arens

Multi-camera full-body pose capture of humans and animals in outdoor environments is a highly challenging problem. Our approach to it involves a team of cooperating micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) with on-board cameras only. The key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Eric Price , Guilherme Lawless , Heinrich H. Bülthoff , Michael Black , Aamir Ahmad

Monocular vision-based target motion estimation is a fundamental challenge in numerous applications. This work introduces a novel bearing-box approach that fully leverages modern 3D detection measurements that are widely available nowadays…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yin Zhang , Zian Ning , Shiyu Zhao

We address the localization of robots in a multi-MAV system where external infrastructure like GPS or motion capture systems may not be available. Our approach lends itself to implementation on platforms with several constraints on size,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Ty Nguyen , Kartik Mohta , Camillo J. Taylor , Vijay Kumar

With the rapid development of information technology, modern warfare increasingly relies on intelligence, making small target detection critical in military applications. The growing demand for efficient, real-time detection has created…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Xiaoxiao Ma , Junxiong Tong

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are crucial in Search and Rescue (SAR) missions due to their ability to monitor vast maritime areas. However, small objects often remain difficult to detect from high altitudes due to low object-to-background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sakib Ahmed , Oscar Pizarro

Recent works have shown that objects discovery can largely benefit from the inherent motion information in video data. However, these methods lack a proper background processing, resulting in an over-segmentation of the non-object regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Sandra Kara , Hejer Ammar , Florian Chabot , Quoc-Cuong Pham

We introduce the first audio-visual dataset for traffic anomaly detection taken from real-world scenes, called MAVAD, with a diverse range of weather and illumination conditions. In addition, we propose a novel method named AVACA that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Błażej Leporowski , Arian Bakhtiarnia , Nicole Bonnici , Adrian Muscat , Luca Zanella , Yiming Wang , Alexandros Iosifidis

Detection of moving objects such as vehicles in videos acquired from an airborne camera is very useful for video analytics applications. Using fast low power algorithms for onboard moving object detection would also provide region of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Noor Al-Shakarji , Filiz Bunyak , Hadi Aliakbarpour , Guna Seetharaman , Kannappan Palaniappan

Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) are increasingly being used for complex or hazardous tasks in enclosed and cluttered environments such as surveillance or search and rescue. With this comes the necessity for sensors that can operate in poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Nikhil Wessendorp , Raoul Dinaux , Julien Dupeyroux , Guido de Croon

Modern multi-object tracking (MOT) systems usually model the trajectories by associating per-frame detections. However, when camera motion, fast motion, and occlusion challenges occur, it is difficult to ensure long-range tracking or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Shoudong Han , Piao Huang , Hongwei Wang , En Yu , Donghaisheng Liu , Xiaofeng Pan , Jun Zhao

Real-time moving object detection in unconstrained scenes is a difficult task due to dynamic background, changing foreground appearance and limited computational resource. In this paper, an optical flow based moving object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Junjie Huang , Wei Zou , Jiagang Zhu , Zheng Zhu

The existing Video Synthetic Aperture Radar (ViSAR) moving target shadow detection methods based on deep neural networks mostly generate numerous false alarms and missing detections, because of the foreground-background…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Zhenyu Yang , Xiaoling Zhang , Xu Zhan

In response to the rising threat of the face morphing attack, this paper introduces and explores the potential of Video-based Morphing Attack Detection (V-MAD) systems in real-world operational scenarios. While current morphing attack…

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