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This paper proposes a novel intrusion detection method for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the presence of recent actual UAV intrusion dataset. In particular, in the first stage of our method, we design an autoencoder architecture for…

The area affected by the earthquake is vast and often difficult to entirely cover, and the earthquake itself is a sudden event that causes multiple defects simultaneously, that cannot be effectively traced using traditional, manual methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Mateusz Żarski , Bartosz Wójcik , Jarosław A. Miszczak , Bartłomiej Blachowski , Mariusz Ostrowski

Timely assessment of structural damage is critical for disaster response and recovery. However, most prior work in natural disaster analysis relies on 2D imagery, which lacks depth, suffers from occlusions, and provides limited spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Nhut Le , Ehsan Karimi , Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Semantic segmentation has been one of the leading research interests in computer vision recently. It serves as a perception foundation for many fields, such as robotics and autonomous driving. The fast development of semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ye Lyu , George Vosselman , Guisong Xia , Alper Yilmaz , Michael Ying Yang

Identifying regions affected by disasters is a vital step in effectively managing and planning relief and rescue efforts. Unlike the traditional approaches of manually assessing post-disaster damage, analyzing images of Unmanned Aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Dibyabha Deb , Ujjwal Verma

Natural disasters ravage the world's cities, valleys, and shores on a regular basis. Deploying precise and efficient computational mechanisms for assessing infrastructure damage is essential to channel resources and minimize the loss of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Thomas Y. Chen

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. In this work, we propose a UAV system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Simon Bultmann , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are frequently used for aerial mapping and general monitoring tasks. Recent progress in deep learning enabled automated semantic segmentation of imagery to facilitate the interpretation of large-scale complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Julius Rückin , Federico Magistri , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

Road extraction from aerial images has been a hot research topic in the field of remote sensing image analysis. In this letter, a semantic segmentation neural network which combines the strengths of residual learning and U-Net is proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Zhengxin Zhang , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Post-disaster inspections are critical to emergency management after earthquakes. The availability of data on the condition of civil infrastructure immediately after an earthquake is of great importance for emergency management.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Xiao Liang , Seyed Omid Sajedi

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are expected to replace human in hazardous tasks of surface inspection due to their flexibility in operating space and capability of collecting high quality visual data. In this study, we propose enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Qiuchen Zhu , Manh Duong Phung , Quang Ha

Automatic building extraction from aerial imagery has several applications in urban planning, disaster management, and change detection. In recent years, several works have adopted deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for building…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Clint Sebastian , Raffaele Imbriaco , Egor Bondarev , Peter H. N. de With

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with bioradars are a life-saving technology that can enable identification of survivors under collapsed buildings in the aftermath of natural disasters such as earthquakes or gas explosions. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Mayank Mittal , Rohit Mohan , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

The empowering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been extensively used in providing intelligence such as target tracking. In our field experiments, a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN) is deployed at the UAV to identify a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Chau Yuen , Lijun Qian

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) are emerging as a promising technology for both environmental and infrastructure monitoring, with broad use in a plethora of applications. Many such applications require the use of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Christos Kyrkou , George Plastiras , Stylianos Venieris , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

Semantic segmentation of aerial videos has been extensively used for decision making in monitoring environmental changes, urban planning, and disaster management. The reliability of these decision support systems is dependent on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Girisha S , Ujjwal Verma , Manohara Pai M M , Radhika Pai

The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with artificial intelligence (AI) models for aerial imagery processing in disaster assessment, necessitates models that demonstrate exceptional accuracy, computational efficiency, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Demetris Shianios , Panayiotis Kolios , Christos Kyrkou

In this paper, we address the vision-based autonomous landing problem in complex urban environments using deep neural networks for semantic segmentation and risk assessment. We propose employing the SegFormer, a state-of-the-art visual…

Earth observation (EO) plays a crucial role in creating and sustaining a resilient and prosperous society that has far reaching consequences for all life and the planet itself. Remote sensing platforms like satellites, airborne platforms,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Protim Bhattacharjee , PEter Jung

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have played an increasingly crucial role in supporting disaster emergency response efforts by analyzing aerial images. While current deep-learning models focus on improving accuracy, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Lemeng Zhao , Junjie Hu , Jianchao Bi , Yanbing Bai , Erick Mas , Shunichi Koshimura