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Trajectory tracking control for quadrotors is important for applications ranging from surveying and inspection, to film making. However, designing and tuning classical controllers, such as proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Qiyang Li , Jingxing Qian , Zining Zhu , Xuchan Bao , Mohamed K. Helwa , Angela P. Schoellig

In this study, we present an end-to-end pipeline capable of converting drone-captured video streams into high-fidelity 3D reconstructions with minimal latency. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are extensively used in aerial real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Christos Maikos , Georgios Angelidis , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos

With the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy, UAVs have become crucial for measurement and tracking in patrol systems. However, in GNSS-denied areas, satellite-based localization methods are prone to failure. This paper presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Tao Liu , Kan Ren , Qian Chen

Due to the inability to receive signals from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) in extreme conditions, achieving accurate and robust navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging task. Recently emerged,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yuxin Wang , Zunlei Feng , Haofei Zhang , Yang Gao , Jie Lei , Li Sun , Mingli Song

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) especially drones, equipped with vision techniques have become very popular in recent years, with their extensive use in wide range of applications. Many of these applications require use of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Subrahmanyam Vaddi , Chandan Kumar , Ali Jannesari

Joint deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) has been shown to be an effective method to establish communications in areas affected by disasters. However, ensuring good Quality of Services (QoS)…

With the increasing deployment of diverse positioning devices and location-based services, a huge amount of spatial and temporal information has been collected and accumulated as trajectory data. Among many applications, trajectory-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Seongjin Choi , Jiwon Kim , Hwasoo Yeo

We propose a new method to estimate the 6-dof trajectory of a flying object such as a quadrotor UAV within a 3D airspace monitored using multiple fixed ground cameras. It is based on a new structure from motion formulation for the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Artem Rozantsev , Sudipta N. Sinha , Debadeepta Dey , Pascal Fua

Integration of reinforcement learning with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to achieve autonomous flight has been an active research area in recent years. An important part focuses on obstacle detection and avoidance for UAVs navigating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Jeremy Roghair , Kyungtae Ko , Amir Ehsan Niaraki Asli , Ali Jannesari

With the acceleration of urbanization, intelligent transportation systems have an increasing demand for accurate traffic flow prediction. This paper proposes a novel Graph Enhanced Spatio-temporal Hierarchical Inference Network (GEnSHIN) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhiyan Zhou , Junjie Liao , Manho Zhang , Yingyi Liao , Ziai Wang

Accurate navigation is of paramount importance to ensure flight safety and efficiency for autonomous drones. Recent research starts to use Deep Neural Networks to enhance drone navigation given their remarkable predictive capability for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Liekang Zeng , Haowei Chen , Daipeng Feng , Xiaoxi Zhang , Xu Chen

Autonomous driving vehicles (ADVs) hold great hopes to solve traffic congestion problems and reduce the number of traffic accidents. Accurate trajectories prediction of other traffic agents around ADVs is of key importance to achieve safe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Yanwu Ge , Mingliang Song

Abnormality detection is a challenging task due to the dependence on a specific context and the unconstrained variability of practical scenarios. In recent years, it has benefited from the powerful features learnt by deep neural networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Habtamu Fanta , Zhiwen Shao , Lizhuang Ma

Low-latency, low-power portable recurrent neural network (RNN) accelerators offer powerful inference capabilities for real-time applications such as IoT, robotics, and human-machine interaction. We propose a lightweight Gated Recurrent Unit…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Chang Gao , Antonio Rios-Navarro , Xi Chen , Shih-Chii Liu , Tobi Delbruck

Traffic forecasting is a problem of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and crucial for individuals and public agencies. Therefore, researches pay great attention to deal with the complex spatio-temporal dependencies of traffic system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Yanjun Qin , Yuchen Fang , Haiyong Luo , Fang Zhao , Chenxing Wang

Reliable 3D trajectory estimation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a fundamental requirement for anti-UAV systems, yet the acquisition of large-scale and accurately annotated trajectory data remains prohibitively expensive. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Haoxiang Lei , Daotong Wang , Shenghai Yuan , Jianbo Su

We aim to solve the problem of data-driven collision-distance estimation given 3-dimensional (3D) geometries. Conventional algorithms suffer from low accuracy due to their reliance on limited representations, such as point clouds. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Minjae Song , Yeseung Kim , Min Jun Kim , Daehyung Park

While 2D object detection has improved significantly over the past, real world applications of computer vision often require an understanding of the 3D layout of a scene. Many recent approaches to 3D detection use LiDAR point clouds for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Jihao Andreas Lin , Jakob Brünker , Daniel Fährmann

GPS trajectories are the essential foundations for many trajectory-based applications, such as travel time estimation, traffic prediction and trajectory similarity measurement. Most applications require a large amount of high sample rate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yuqi Chen , Hanyuan Zhang , Weiwei Sun , Baihua Zheng

Today, low-altitude fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are largely limited to primitively follow user-defined waypoints. To allow fully-autonomous remote missions in complex environments, real-time environment-aware navigation is…