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Depth completion and object detection are two crucial tasks often used for aerial 3D mapping, path planning, and collision avoidance of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Common solutions include using measurements from a LiDAR sensor;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Sara Hatami Gazani , Fardad Dadboud , Miodrag Bolic , Iraj Mantegh , Homayoun Najjaran

Object detection has been applied in a wide variety of real world scenarios, so detection algorithms must provide confidence in the results to ensure that appropriate decisions can be made based on their results. Accordingly, several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Sanghun Park , Kunhee Kim , Eunseop Lee , Daijin Kim

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a crucial component of situational awareness in military defense applications. With the growing use of unmanned aerial systems (UASs), MOT methods for aerial surveillance is in high demand. Application of MOT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Wanlin Xie , Jaime Ide , Daniel Izadi , Sean Banger , Thayne Walker , Ryan Ceresani , Dylan Spagnuolo , Christopher Guagliano , Henry Diaz , Jason Twedt

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with multiple complementary sensors have tremendous potential for fast autonomous or remote-controlled semantic scene analysis, e.g., for disaster examination. Here, we propose a UAV system for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Simon Bultmann , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

Fine-grained object detection (FGOD) extends object detection with the capability of fine-grained recognition. In recent two-stage FGOD methods, the region proposal serves as a crucial link between detection and fine-grained recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Wentao Li , Danpei Zhao , Bo Yuan , Yue Gao , Zhenwei Shi

Unmanned aerial vehicles serve as primary sensing platforms for surveillance, traffic monitoring, and disaster response, making aerial object detection a central problem in applied computer vision. Current detectors struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Sohail Ali Farooqui , Zuhair Ahmed Khan Taha , Mohammed Mudassir Uddin , Shahnawaz Alam

Real-time object detection on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging issue due to the limited computing resources of edge GPU devices as Internet of Things (IoT) nodes. To solve this problem, in this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Wei Zhou , Xuanlin Min , Rui Hu , Yiwen Long , Huan Luo , JunYi

To achieve reliable and precise scene understanding, autonomous vehicles typically incorporate multiple sensing modalities to capitalize on their complementary attributes. However, existing cross-modal 3D detectors do not fully utilize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Yifan Zhang , Qijian Zhang , Junhui Hou , Yixuan Yuan , Guoliang Xing

As drone use has become more widespread, there is a critical need to ensure safety and security. A key element of this is robust and accurate drone detection and localization. While cameras and other optical sensors like LiDAR are commonly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yuan Fang , Fangzhan Shi , Xijia Wei , Qingchao Chen , Kevin Chetty , Simon Julier

Drones or general Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), endowed with computer vision function by on-board cameras and embedded systems, have become popular in a wide range of applications. However, real-time scene parsing through object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Pengyi Zhang , Yunxin Zhong , Xiaoqiong Li

Frequency-modulated continuous wave radars have gained increasing popularity in the automotive industry. Their robustness against adverse weather conditions makes it a suitable choice for radar object detection in advanced driver assistance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Huaiyu Chen , Fahed Hassanat , Robert Laganiere , Martin Bouchard

Recent advances in the area of plane segmentation from single RGB images show strong accuracy improvements and now allow a reliable segmentation of indoor scenes into planes. Nonetheless, fine-grained details of these segmentation masks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Alexander Naumann , Laura Dörr , Niels Ole Salscheider , Kai Furmans

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking is critical for applications like surveillance, search-and-rescue, and autonomous navigation. However, the high-speed movement of UAVs and targets introduces unique challenges, including real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 You Wu , Xucheng Wang , Dan Zeng , Hengzhou Ye , Xiaolan Xie , Qijun Zhao , Shuiwang Li

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) hold immense potential for critical applications, such as search and rescue operations, where accurate perception of indoor environments is paramount. However, the concurrent amalgamation of localization, 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Van-Truong Nguyen , Xiem HoangVan , Armagan Elibol , Nak Young Chong

Accurate detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is critical for surveillance, security, and airspace monitoring. However, existing datasets remain limited in scale, resolution, and the ability to capture objects across extreme size…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yu-Hsi Chen

The improvements in recent CNN-based object detection works, from R-CNN [11], Fast/Faster R-CNN [10, 31] to recent Mask R-CNN [14] and RetinaNet [24], mainly come from new network, new framework, or novel loss design. But mini-batch size, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Chao Peng , Tete Xiao , Zeming Li , Yuning Jiang , Xiangyu Zhang , Kai Jia , Gang Yu , Jian Sun

In recent years, drone detection has quickly become a subject of extreme interest: the potential for fast-moving objects of contained dimensions to be used for malicious intents or even terrorist attacks has posed attention to the necessity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Gabriele Magrini , Federico Becattini , Pietro Pala , Alberto Del Bimbo , Antonio Porta

Accurate perception of UAVs in complex low-altitude environments is critical for airspace security and related intelligent systems. Developing reliable solutions requires large-scale, accurately annotated, and multimodal data. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Longkun Zou , Jiale Wang , Rongqin Liang , Hai Wu , Ke Chen , Yaowei Wang

UAV has been widely used in various fields. However, most of the existing object detectors used in drones are not end-to-end and require the design of various complex components and careful fine-tuning. Most of the existing end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zifa Chen

Amidst the swift advancements in photography and sensor technologies, high-definition cameras have become commonplace in the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for diverse operational purposes. Within the domain of UAV imagery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Qi Li , Jiaxin Cai , Yuanlong Yu , Jason Gu , Jia Pan , Wenxi Liu