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An onboard target detection, tracking and avoidance system has been developed in this paper, for low-cost UAV flight controllers using AI-Based approaches. The aim of the proposed system is that an ally UAV can either avoid or track an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Vinorth Varatharasan , Alice Shuang Shuang Rao , Eric Toutounji , Ju-Hyeon Hong , Hyo-Sang Shin

Current unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) visual tracking algorithms are primarily limited with respect to: (i) the kind of size variation they can deal with, (ii) the implementation speed which hardly meets the real-time requirement. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Fangqiang Ding , Changhong Fu , Yiming Li , Jin Jin , Chen Feng

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

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

Existing tracking algorithms typically rely on low-frame-rate RGB cameras coupled with computationally intensive deep neural network architectures to achieve effective tracking. However, such frame-based methods inherently face challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shiao Wang , Xiao Wang , Liye Jin , Bo Jiang , Lin Zhu , Lan Chen , Yonghong Tian , Bin Luo

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to maintain consistent identities of objects across video frames. Associating objects in low-frame-rate videos captured by moving unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in actual combat scenarios is complex due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Markiyan Kostiv , Anatolii Adamovskyi , Yevhen Cherniavskyi , Mykyta Varenyk , Ostap Viniavskyi , Igor Krashenyi , Oles Dobosevych

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in UAV-based video is challenging due to variations in viewpoint, low resolution, and the presence of small objects. While other research on MOT dedicated to aerial videos primarily focuses on the academic aspect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Nhat-Tan Do , Nhi Ngoc-Yen Nguyen , Dieu-Phuong Nguyen , Trong-Hop Do

Multiple object tracking (MOT) in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) videos is important for diverse applications in computer vision. Current MOT trackers rely on accurate object detection results and precise matching of target reidentification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Jianbo Ma , Chuanming Tang , Fei Wu , Can Zhao , Jianlin Zhang , Zhiyong Xu

Modern robotic systems are required to operate in dense dynamic environments, requiring highly accurate real-time track identification and estimation. For 3D multi-object tracking, recent approaches process a single measurement frame…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sandro Papais , Robert Ren , Steven Waslander

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

Vision-based target tracking is crucial for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to perform tasks such as inspection, monitoring, and surveillance. However, real-time tracking in complex maritime environments is challenging due to dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Muhayy Ud Din , Ahsan B. Bakht , Waseem Akram , Yihao Dong , Lakmal Seneviratne , Irfan Hussain

We investigate the application of ByteTrack in the realm of multiple object tracking. ByteTrack, a simple tracking algorithm, enables the simultaneous tracking of multiple objects by strategically incorporating detections with a low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Linh Van Ma , Muhammad Ishfaq Hussain , JongHyun Park , Jeongbae Kim , Moongu Jeon

This work introduces a new preprocessing step for object detection applicable to UAV bird's eye view imagery, which we call Adaptive Resizing. By design, it helps alleviate the challenges coming with the vast variances in objects' scales,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Martin Messmer , Benjamin Kiefer , Andreas Zell

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) detection and aerial object recognition are critical for modern surveillance and security, prompting a need for robust systems that overcome limitations of single-modality approaches. This research addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Mauro Larrat , Claudomiro Sales

Air-to-air tracking of swarm UAVs presents significant challenges due to the complex nonlinear group motion and weak visual cues for small objects, which often cause detection failures, trajectory fragmentation, and identity switches.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Zhaochen Chu , Tao Song , Ren Jin , Shaoming He , Defu Lin , Siqing Cheng

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) offers lots of applications in both commerce and recreation. With this, monitoring the operation status of UAVs is crucially important. In this work, we consider the task of tracking UAVs, providing rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Nan Jiang , Kuiran Wang , Xiaoke Peng , Xuehui Yu , Qiang Wang , Junliang Xing , Guorong Li , Jian Zhao , Guodong Guo , Zhenjun Han

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

Multi-object tracking (MOT) from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents unique challenges due to unpredictable object motion, frequent occlusions, and limited appearance cues inherent to aerial viewpoints. These issues are further…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Zenghuang Fu , Xiaofeng Han , Mingda Jia , Jin ming Yang , Qi Zeng , Muyang Zahng , Changwei Wang , Weiliang Meng , Xiaopeng Zhang

Vision-based object tracking has boosted extensive autonomous applications for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, the dynamic changes in flight maneuver and viewpoint encountered in UAV tracking pose significant difficulties, e.g. ,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Liangliang Yao , Changhong Fu , Sihang Li , Guangze Zheng , Junjie Ye

The growing proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) poses major challenges for reliable airspace surveillance, as drones are typically small, have low radar cross-sections, and often move slowly in cluttered environments. These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Anders Malthe Westerkam , Jakob Möderl , Erik Leitinger , Troels Pedersen